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Reading helps babies develop important language skills and learn sounds, speech patterns, and words. Talking to babies helps them learn to talk long before they say their first words. Singing helps build security and confidence.
Playing helps babies learn to solve problems, communicate, and get along with others. But is there any merit in singing to them?
Anecdotally, a few of you seemed to suggest that singing to plants was helpful. In the end it got too big for the house.
He swears you should sing to them. He didn't explain why," says David Michael Goeke. View image of "What do you mean, you prefer John Cage? Even if there is no benefit to the plant, there could be benefit to yourself by producing more [oxygen] inside.
Come on, says Marshal Huang. There has got to be more to it than carbon dioxide levels. Perhaps there could be good vibrations, suggests Christie Ley.
The hard rock ones died Caroline Wall has a neat hypothesis. It need not be anything to do with sound at all.
Instead, maybe people who sing to their plants are just better at looking after them. View image of Yuccas dig "Rolling in the Deep" Credit: Charles Darwin was similarly open-minded. He once noted that seedlings appeared to be sensitive to the vibrations of the table on which their pots were standing. Intrigued, he devised what he called "a fool's experiment" to see if the seedlings responded to sound.