Introducing nursery rhymes to kids-when and how?

When you think about nursery rhymes, we are immediately transported back to our childhood with our brain picturing all our once memorized famous rhymes like “Ba- Ba black sheep ", Johnny Johnny yes papa"etc. It would in fact be difficult to find a person who is unfamiliar with at least a single rhyme. Such is the recounting capacity of nursery rhymes, although introduced in the childhood. This fact itself shows that there is nothing too early to introduce nursery rhymes, as children are born with an amazing capacity to learn.

Now the only question is how to introduce them. We can introduce it in many ways either using the old ways or devising your own innovative methods. There can be no correct way or rule of thumb for this. It mainly depends on the child as each child has different learning capacities. We can only make the Learning easy and entertaining for the child by adding fun element and interactiveness. There can be many ways to introduce them. A few methods are given below. One can create their own ways depending on the child learning capacity.

First start with easy rhymes:

Remember that rhymes has to be considered as the baby steps taken to learn and communicate in a language. Start with easyrhymes, which can be easy to learn and memorize. Such Rhymes must introduce small words to the child. When a child is familiar to them then we must take up bigger and little bit harder rhymes. It must be a gradual progress. Visit http://www.babymamamovie.net/categories/?playid=2 to get started.

Choose conceptual based rhymes:

Choosing rhymes which impart certain basic concepts of our daily life like simple mathematics like counting in ascending and descending manner (five little monkeys) , action words(hop a little ) etc. It will help the development of the child's various skills.