The benefits of reading to children

Reading to baby

In this blog Award winning Brisbane children’s author Eileen O’Hely shares her thoughts on the benefits of reading to children. Like making music with your child, reading aloud and sharing stories is a great way to spend time together while helping to promote your little one’s language, literacy and brain development. Storytelling is a keystone of […]

Musical Families Grow Together

Birralee Boppers

At Kids Music Beat – the home of Boppin’ Babies – we believe that musical families grow together. One of the greatest personal rewards I get from Kids Music Beat is watching the little Boppers grow and supporting families to use music as part of this journey. I love seeing these little tiny bubbas grow […]

Making sense of the sensory craze

Baby Sensory - touch- featured

It seems ‘sensory’ is the new black. The idea of sensory has gone mainstream in recent years. So much so that you might be getting the message that if you aren’t doing ‘sensory’ then you are not doing the best by your child. While it important that babies receive appropriate sensory stimulation to learn and […]

How to nurture a healthy relationship with food

The Healthy Dad

Sean Cornish ‘The Healthy Dad’ is a daddy bopper, personal trainer and dietitian. He is father to a two year old with another little one on the way. Sean’s mission is to improve children’s relationship with food by helping parents navigate the information overload about healthy eating. You can check out the Healthy Dad blog […]

When to move from the bubs to the toddlers group

Boppin Babies Rockin' Tots

Boppin’ Babies offers age specifc babies toddlers music groups. In this blog Miss Vicky provides a guide for parents on when to move their little bopper from a Boppin’ Babies to a Rockin’ Tots music group. At Boppin’ Babies we believe you should decide what group is best for you and your bopper. We offer […]

It’s all about you and your baby

finger puppets baby music groups

In this blog Miss Vicky provides a guide for parents considering joining one of our Boppin’ Babies baby music groups around Brisbane. At Boppin’ Babies you can choose an age specific music group that focuses on the developmental and emotional needs of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Or you can choose a combo group which provides […]

Five tips to help kids overcome stage fright

My Musical Child offers piano, guitar, violin, singing and drama lessons for primary and secondary school aged children. We even offer lessons for the parents too!

Many parents ask me how to help their children with stage fright and nerves. It is becoming more frequent that children are encouraged to do classroom performances or music nights and dealing with nerves is hard! Even now I still get nervous when I have to perform and even in our community music groups because […]

Why live music for kids rocks!

Live Music Kids Rocks! Lah Lah's Big Live Band

Hey there everyone, so delighted to be guest blogging today for Miss Vicky. My name is Tina, I’m a mum of two beautiful girls and best known as Lah-Lah from Lah-Lah’s Big Live Band on ABCKids. I’ve always been a lover of live music, ever since I was a kid but it wasn’t until I […]

Why we like to shake it up at Boppin’ Babies

Shakers are great for child development

  Yes, ‘just shakers’ are great for child development. At Boppin’ Babies we like  shaking instruments to live music every single week and there is very good reason for this! When children play with shaking instruments, they are not ‘just shaking’ they are learning about their bodies, about music and also about concepts. They are […]

Share making music with your child

Share music with your child

At Boppin Babies all the music we play is live and every parent participates in the group, no matter the age of your child. This way the children get to experience making music in the moment every week and you get to be in that moment with them. Why do we do this? Because we […]