Beat Acquisition: Help your children learn to find and move to the beat. Clapping to the beat, patting the beat on your legs, and moving to the beat are all different skills. Children will learn to find the beat faster if you pat it on their back or sway with them to the beat. You want their whole body, not just their hands to feel the beat. Be patient, it can take a long time to learn to keep a steady beat. Most children learn to keep a steady beat somewhere between the ages of 4 and 7. Beat acquisition is a great asset in athletic pursuits. It is part of body-kinesthetic and spatial learning. Most all learning involves patterns and you have to understand beat before you can see a pattern. Import learning pathways are laid in the brain as a child learns to feel and move to a steady beat.
