Calm And Relaxed. How Music Helps To Treat Hyperactivity in Kids

Do you feel as if your child takes power drinks and coffee all day long having just too much energy? Like no games or activities are enough to entertain your child and calm him down? And you are tired to get complains from his school teachers about his attitude and poor academic results. Then you might know much better than anyone else that children’s hyperactivity can be a real problem.

Maybe you have tried some calming techniques or even slight relaxants but nothing seems to help slow him down and control impulsive behavior. Lucky you are, the solution exists! And this solution will not require wasting a lot of effort or make your child take sedative supplements but will engage him and learn to stay calm and concentrated.

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Hyperactivity or ADHD. When is it the time to get worried?

Recent research has shown that playing music is highly effective in reducing hyperactivity in kids. Besides many other perks, playing music develops reading, literacy, maths skills, and motor function, and can teach your child to be consistent and beat poor focus. When playing music, children learn to concentrate on a process by creating a harmonic sequence of notes.

But what is most important, music can treat ADHD – a common disorder that many children tend to suffer from nowadays. ADHD is not the name of a rock band. It’s an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and can be a big problem and headache for both kids and parents.

How to understand that your child has ADHD? If your kid is just a little bit too active sometimes, it’s all fine. Children are curious and excited about exploring the world. However, your children can seem to be too distracted and disorganized, or tend to forget things frequently, and do not complete the tasks. If you noticed the symptoms, your children may suffer from ADHD.

Do not punish them – treat them!

How to raise ADHD children? Parents tend to punish children for being distractive, but what can really help is your love, attention, understanding and treating therapy. The therapy often includes medications and activities that will increase attention span, control impulsive behavior and improve executive function.

The reasons for ADHD are still unknown, but a few techniques have already shown some positive results.  Music can be part of an effective treatment plan for hyperactive kids and can also treat anxiety, stress and other mental disorders. Sound therapy is commonly used to treat ADHD and playing music was found to be effective for kids with ADHD to treat the disorder.

While medical treatment requires the observation of a physio, there are things you can easily involve in your child’s daily routine. Start treating ADHD by listening and practicing music with your kid. Music therapy is a powerful yet a simple tool to improve ADHD conditions. Listening to classical music can be useful for treating ADHD. Have you heard about the positive effect of turning on Mozart for the children? Classical music is strictly organized and can be helpful for ADHD children by teaching their brain to structure things.

When practising music, the choice of instrument is important - you need to maintain the balance between interest and difficulty. Choose an instrument that is not as complicated as the piano, yet not as simple as a triangle. A steel tongue drum such as the RAV Vast will be a good choice. It’s easy enough to learn to play and is kid-friendly, yet it’s a professional instrument that is much more interesting to acquire than a triangle.

No bitter pills. Treatment is fun when playing RAV

Hyperactivity can also be the reason why your child has problems with academic performance. Is the school environment a challenge for your child? Staying still, listening quietly and concentrating for long hours – seems like this task is impossible for any child. It’s okay for children to daydream during class, act on impulse sometimes, or get fidgety at the dinner table. We, big boys and girls, can also have problems with concentration. But if you’re a parent, you’ would not like your child to be traveling around the Magic Wonderland of his dreams all day long but rather to focus on the essentials. Instead of pushing him harder to concentrate on his tasks (unsuccessfully), let him try playing RAV Vast. Make it a kind of a game, not an obligation. How this will help your child? ADHD children have problems with physical, mental and social rhythm organization. As music is based on synchronization of body movements and mental activity and employs the rhythm, it can be just the ticket in treating ADHD.

Here are some good parenting tips for you to beat ADHD with the RAV Vast. First, introduce the drum to your child and explain that it is a professional instrument “for adults” that requires a serious approach. Make sure your child understands that you entrust him with this precious thing.  Let him experiment with the drum a little. When playing music, your kid will learn that each tongue can produce a single note and that the notes can be lower and higher and that the sequence of notes creates an octave. While tapping a few tongues at the same time he can get diades and triades that make the sound different and that hitting different notes he will create a melody. The great benefit of the RAV Vast is the harmonious tune of the notes, they all go well with each other, meaning the melody will always sound good!

The tone of the RAV’s tune is soothing and relaxing and is great sleeping music for kids  - it’ll help your child calm down. You can actually shift the playing sessions before your kid goes to bed so that they can get better sleep. Relaxing music has been used for calming down kids since ancient times, so why not to use this good old tip but in a new, alternative way by playing the RAV Vast before bed?

Children tend to copy the attitudes of the people around them. Set a good example for your child by managing them lightly. With RAV, you’ll be able to provide this guidance easily. Take the second instrument for yourself and show your child how you play intuitively. Unlike the violin, you won’t need to spend years learning it so as to explain the technique to your child. You will have a lot of fun jamming together (besides, you will get all the benefits of playing this amazing drum, too). This will also help to bolster the relationship between both of you.

After a short time, you will notice that your kid is getting better at planning things in advance, and will be able to stay focused and complete their tasks easily! Problems that children face every day are not childish at all. Even if we consider them to be so, that doesn’t mean children do not suffer from stress, anxiety, delirium or tension. Help your kid beat them, end the fight between homework and cartoons, and you will be able to see that precious happy smile again!