{"id":11350,"date":"2016-06-14T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2016-05-26T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:06:30","slug":"quiet-time-classical-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11350","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Time & Classical Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tchaikovsky\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The parents of the children we drove home from school this school year recently dropped off the best thank-you gift: a collection of Classical Kids<\/a> cd’s for our boys. I had never heard of this series, but it is\u00a0awesome!\u00a0<\/em>On the first rainy day of summer, I popped the Tchaikovsky Discovers America<\/em><\/a> cd and suddenly, all three of my boys were completely captivated. The cd consists of Tchaikovsky’s classics, like The Nutcracker, Swan Lake (my favorite), Sleeping Beauty (okay, my other favorite), the First Piano Concerto, String Serenade, and 1812 Overture. The music is the same amazing original stuff, but there are stories along with the music that add an element to hold children’s interest. I’m telling, it’s never quieter and more peaceful in my house with all three boys indoors at once than when these are playing. They listened to this while silently building a fort and doing puzzles in the living room (Emil’s new favorite activity).<\/p>\n

This is an awesome way to introduce kids to classical music and also provide some much-needed quiet time during the crazy summer months. Since we try to really limit screen time, this is the perfect solution to our need to slow down and rest during the day in-between trips to the swimming pool, playgrounds, and hikes in the woods. I highly recommend this series!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parents of the children we drove home from school this school year recently dropped off the best thank-you gift: a collection of Classical Kids cd’s for our boys. I had never heard of this series, but it is\u00a0awesome!\u00a0On the first rainy day of summer, I popped the Tchaikovsky Discovers America cd and suddenly, all … Continue reading “Quiet Time & Classical Kids”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-ingenius-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}