In Tune

We are a musical family. The girls play harp, violin, flute and piano and the CD player goes non-stop with either inspirational music, or classical music and Buster LOVES music and appreciates it. He sings a lot. He's learned a lot of nice songs and he sings parts of songs all the time. He often chooses which CD's he wants on and asks for them to be turned on in the car.

We have this one set of classical CD's that are meant for improving the brain function. They come from the Sharper Minds program that friends gave us a while back. The music has nature sounds mixed in, so out of one speaker you will hear bird calls and the next thing you know it's a flute, and out of the other speaker is the cello, etc... The music goes soft, then changes speed, and volume. A child is suppose to listen to them with sound canceling headphones for 15 minutes a day, which Buster enjoys. He likes them  enough that we listen to them on the stereo as well.

Little Miss on the other hands, can't carry a tune, could care less if music is playing, doesn't even noticed if someone puts on a CD, and doesn't learn songs very easily. Her hearing seems to be drastically improved lately and she is noticing sounds she had not paid attention to before, but I'm wondering if all the years of poor hearing has effected her for life. She pays zero attention to children's story at church and even gets little out of Sabbath school. We keep working on her to listen when we read stories to her. It's a funny thing, though, if she thinks someone is having a conversation about her, or we're talking about some place we are planning to go to, or any other private conversation she has no business nosying into, she HEARS everything!! Truly, selective hearing at it's best!