Teaching Children Joy: Body Part 10

Teaching Children Joy: Body Part 10

Teach simple songs

Teach simple songs and offer the children praise for singing. 

I thought using the video recorder would be fun so they could also watch themselves.

Always give  total encouragement and praise.  A negative word can ruin fragile physical confidence and delay or thwart the very physical joy you are trying to create and teach.  If the result is good, praise the result: "You did skip!"  "You sang that right on tune!"  If the result is not good, praise the attempt, the effort:  "What a good try!  Before long you'll do it!"  (Teaching children Joy pg. 63)