You can nurture your child’s music development, whatever your level of music skill, by your participation and by judicial use of the online recordings.  You are likely stronger either tonally or rhythmically.  Perhaps you can keep a beat, but you don’t sing well in tune.  Perhaps you can carry a tune, but cannot keep a steady beat.  Maybe you cannot sing tunefully or rhythmically alone, but perhaps you sing better with another voice.  Use the recordings as your training wheels, and use them as long and as often as needed.  You may find that once you learn a rhythm chant, you can deliver it easily without the recording, but need the recordings for the tonal activities, or maybe to get into a different meter.  You may find that you can easily sing a Tonal Activity without the recording, yet need the support for the Rhythm Activities or to get into another tonality.  Perhaps you sing better with the recordings than you do by yourself.  Allow yourself the luxury of using the recordings as a live-in “Musical Nanny.”

Your child does not care if you are not tuneful, not rhythmic, or if you have two left feet.  It is your participation and use of the recordings to support you as well as your child that is most important. Your child will then have both your involvement and the necessary model of tunefulness and rhythmicity, whatever your level of music skill.  You are likely to find that by nurturing your child’s music development, you will nurture your own!