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Under the what?? 🙂

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Yes, Yes, Yes! I love your comment, Becky! “Outstanding! Temper Tantrums are a developmental milestone!” I love saying, “That’s a great sign!” We want to see our kids doing many of these things!

Also, related to being a parent or not being a parent, remember that many of the new parents we are working with come to parenting with absolutely no experience being around young children. We work with many older parents and many professional parents who have very successful lives and careers, but they know very little about what to expect from their little one or how to play or positively impact their development. Sharing your knowledge and resources with them is being of service to them and generally, it is much appreciated! 🙂

Keep sharing your thoughts everyone!
Meredith

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Hi Everybody,
I am really enjoying reading all of your comments. Thanks for all of the great thoughts on the importance of being child-like and being real with the families we work with. And yes fun! One of the things that’s been mentioned a number of times is the importance of the voice in work with young children. It is our most basic tool and with young children it has the most influence. I actually had a very funny experience last week. I went into college with trumpet as my primary instrument. I sang in choir a little bit in school, but I was a trumpet player! So last week, I find myself in a recording studio playing guitar and singing songs to record our first full length CD for Roman Music Therapy Services, and I had to laugh – and at one point even called out to the recording engineer, “You have to understand how strange this is! I am a trumpet player! Not a vocalist, not a guitarist, I come to music therapy as a trumpet player!” But when I get to play and sing with young children, it’s amazing what the voice provides! Rhythm, melody, structure, vibration… Everything is there in your voice!
Keep the conversation going!
Remember to track your time reading and commenting on the forum here. It all counts toward your CMTE Credits!
Thanks,
Meredith

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Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Meghan. I was wondering if others in the group feel the same way about the use of their voice in their

current early childhood work?

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Leslie is already singing all the time! She wakes in the middle of the night with Sprouting Melodies songs in her head! How fun is that?
Thanks for joining us here, Leslie!

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Wow, Becky! The accolades keep coming! 🙂 Great to have you joining us!

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Welcome! I love the diversity of our experiences! What I love about the content of this course is that we will look at overall development and I believe you will find that the content will apply to your work with many populations.  Welcome everyone!

Keep your focus as we go through the course on your work with young children and other populations and find ways that the course content relates, and when you see correlations

bring to them up on the forum so we can all benefit from your insights.

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Welcome, Meghan! I lvoe that you are looking for a full time job in early childhood music therapy and trying for find ways to market yourself, and in addition, recognizing that the business end of it can not be overlooked. In many ways, it is the awareness and knowledge of business practices that will allow you to grow and create the perfect jobs for yourself as a music therapist whether through self-employment or as an employee.

We will certainly talk about a lot of these things over the course of 10 weeks. Looking forward to the conversations!

Meredith

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Hi Becky,

Thanks for joining us! 11 Years in Early Childhood! Wow! Isn’t it great work? It keeps us young and fresh, and always on our toes when we are working with little ones in preschool or in Early Intervention.

We are really glad to have you here with us for this course. We should also add that you are one of our esteemed colleagues who is on our Advisory Board for Raising Harmony. You are a tremendous resource within our field!

Thank you for your work and for taking the time to be part of this cohort.

Meredith

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I’m thrilled to be on this online course with all of you! I am Meredith Pizzi, proud to be a Board Certified Music Therapist and excited to see the course finally launch online after a year of planning, research, design and development!
Here we are about to embark on a 10 week journey together and I am sure we are all going to learn a lot together.

I am a graduate of Duquesne University’s Music Therapy Program and I had the joy and honor of working with Beth Schwartz as my internship supervisor. I learned so much from her in my internship and really developed a love for working in early childhood. After my internship, I had a very successful private practice on Long Island, NY before moving to Boston in 2006. Once settled into Boston, I founded Roman Music Therapy Services, and in 2009 Sprouting Melodies was born! Since 2009, we have seen our revenues at Roman Music Therapy Services skyrocket, more than tripling in 3 years and a lot of that has to do with the growth of Sprouting Melodies and how well it has been received in our community.
What brings me here is the desire to share with others what I have learned about early childhood and music making. And with all of the effort that has gone into growing Sprouting Melodies, I want to give other music therapists the opportunity to now make it part of their practices. I’ve learned so much, and the branding and program development is done! I just want to get it out there to music therapists and families all around the country!
So what brings you here??

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We are so excited to have you join us on this brand new adventure. It was not quite a year ago that Meredith and I sat at dinner during the AMTA conference and made the decision to create an early childhood music site by music therapists for music therapists. And here we are! The seeds are sown, the ground is fertile and its time to grow.

I have had the pleasure of being a music therapist with young children since the early 1980s. Each day I go to work excited about being in the music with the children and their families.  I primarily work at at center based program called Alternatives for Children on Long Island New York.  I also am an adjunct professor in music therapy at Molloy College.  You can learn a lot more about me by reading the blog postings on http://www.RaisingHarmony.com. Now, tell me about you….

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