Organize and conquer

"The brain’s job from birth to 7 is to organize itself. And that music is the only activity that simultaneously stimulates every area of the brain, thus helping the brain to organize all the sensory information it’s taking in.... Music is full of structure and patterns and logic, which is exactly what your brain needs to help organize all that information.... [Albert Einstein's] mother was told by his school that he was stupid, and that she should withdraw him. Instead, his mother bought him a violin, and we know him as one of the smartest men in history. To what does Einstein credit that? Yup. The violin. (His momma should get some of that credit, too.) He said that he worked out problems that he was stuck on by playing his violin. He loved the music of Mozart and Bach the most.... "Classical and Baroque music in its composition is very structured and organized. One of the rules is that you don’t repeat a theme over and over again. Instead, you have a theme, and then variations on that theme. Dr. Michael Ballam of Utah State University says, “The human mind shuts down after three or four repetitions of a rhythm, or a melody, or a harmonic progression."... Now, no promises that your house will magically declutter itself if you put some Bach or Haydn on. But if you [and your child] need to start thinking clearly, give it a try." -Miss Analiisa