Two of Growing Sound’s albums are focused on building attachment between parent and child. Attachment is a mutual strong and long lasting relationship between a child and significant adult such as parents, family members, or teacher.  If in the early years, a child learns how to form secure attachments to his parents and other significant adults in his life, he feels secure enough to explore his environment, confident he/she will move from mystery to mastery.  The world is not to be feared but embraced.

In our album, Beautiful Baby, Wonderful Child, a parent will find the song, Kiss in My Pocket which talks about giving a child a “kiss” to keep in their pocket when separated from their mother.  The lyrics include comforting statements such as “I keep a kiss in my pocket so I don’t feel sad or alone.  I keep a kiss in my pocket until we’re both back home.”  This album was also recently honored with an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Audio Award.

Additionally, Growing Sound offers another album to help children through transitions away from their parents.  The album, I Can Count on You, features songs of belonging with help children develop a sense of security, social skills, friendship and trust. These songs help children realize that adults are sources of hope and guidance.

To listen to the songs from these two wonderful CDs, visit our website at www.growing-sound.com.

We are very pleased to announce that we just received a prestigious Dr. Toy Best Vacation Product Award for our album, I Can Do It.  The album, I Can Do It, was released in 2009 with songs that build confidence, independence, problem solving skills, and creativity in young children.

Dr. Toy’s Best Vacation Products Awards were developed by noted child development authority, Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Dr. Toy), as a service to consumers who desire to purchase safe, affordable, educationally-oriented, and stimulating toys and play products for children for vacation time at home or on the road.

“As a childhood specialist for 40 years,” says Dr. Toy, “I have seen the continuous, essential need for more year-round resources for consumers to identify and choose the most appropriate products for all children.”

Dr. Toy reports that in the years the innovative on-line magazine, Dr. Toy’s Guide, has been available, “thousands of visitors daily from around the world have accessed its information.”  It was the first web site to evaluate toys and children’s products.  The report is being released, according to Dr. Toy, to “encourage parents and teachers to focus on the value of play during the summer as essential to the overall learning process.”

She adds, “The Best Vacation Products are a balanced selection  from large and small, new and established, companies across the U.S.A., Canada, and overseas will provide children with exciting new learning tools that will help them not only do better in school, but also will provide more constructive activities while traveling or at vacation destinations.”

We are thrilled to receive this kind of national recognition for our music and hope that parents will pick up a copy of this great CD to help build these important social and emotional skills in their children!

When a kite flies
Someone is there holding the string
When a kite flies
The kite finds a way to use its wings
When a kite flies
The tails keeps it pointed toward the sky
I fly like a kite flies
‘Cause I have the very same things

We have certainly been enjoying our wonderful Spring Days and recently sent invitations to our families to create a kite together or purchase one and spend a windy afternoon together. Spending time together and developing memories is an important ingredient of a resilient child.  When a Kite Flies is a wonderful example of what we want a resilient child to say to himself.

Research shows that three internal protective factors are critical for building resilience in young children:

• Secure Attachment to early caregivers means that later children will see other adults such as teachers and authority figures as sources of hope and guidance.
• A sense of Initiative leads to a child intrinsically motivated to learn.
• The ability to Self-control the experience and expression of emotion leads to more friendships.

I fly like a kite flies

It’s all inside of me!