Teaching Kids Love and Peace Blog

Recently, I was delighted to receive the 2010 KIDLUTIONS PREFERRED PRODUCT AWARD for my 6 children’s music CDs.  The reviewers were looking for products that develop emotional intelligence, as well as being entertaining.   As a composer and educator, I believe that the WORDS in each song need to be purposeful and consciously written.  Words go […]

Do you remember that awful song…something about “School Days, dear old Golden Rule days…Reading and Writing and ‘Rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick”…Ouch! well let’s assume the hickory stick part is not done anymore, anywhere…but the reading, writing and ‘rithmetic are more emphasized than ever…WHAT HAPPENED TO MUSIC?! Crucial! CREATIVITY! Vital! Reading, […]

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”…I remember hearing kids say that taunt when I was a young child, and it is a phrase that doesn’t ring true for me personally or professionally.  Words have a tremendous vibration within the delicate soul of each and every person, no matter what […]

What do I mean when I use the word “Peace” in my concerts? Do I mean peace versus war? Many people ask me initially if my “Peace Begins with Me” or “Peace Begins with Me-We’re Bully Free Teaching Concerts” for elementary school ages and preschoolers are politically-oriented.  My intention in each of the concerts is to […]

Music is healing, powerful and has staying power! I am a children’s musician,  and also integrate music with adults, combining song, sound, healing, chants, positive words. I work as an ARTIST FOR ALZHEIMER’S volunteer, and even though people are forgetting time and space and memories…they DO remember a song they sang in childhood, and people who have […]

The words in children’s music are important.  They are vital in  nurturing a child’s delicate growing being.  Every lyric in each song in all of my 7 CDs for children are purposeful and conscious. Words can encourage self-esteem, potential, creativity, and most of all enhance character-building and values of tolerance, sharing, caring, kindness, patience, respect for each other […]