You have probably heard about the “Mozart effect”, which claims listening to classical music, especially composed by Amadeus Mozart raises your intelligence and cognitive skills. This theory is pretty popular, but have you heard about the “lullaby effect” – which claims certain songs have a sleep inducing effect on babies?
Of course this is well known in many cultures as a conventional wisdom. Recently scientists officially confirmed lullabies have a soothing effect, lower stress, strengthen bonds between the parent and child, and improve sleep patterns.
Moreover, lullabies are universal and found across different cultures of the world, even sharing similar tones and rhythmic patterns. The explanation of this phenomenon is lullabyes reflect and remind babies of the conditions in the womb.
The best way to soothe the baby to sleep is to sing the lullaby yourself, because the voice of the parent is the sweetest sound for child’s ears. Although this guy shown below tried to use the piano to put his child to sleep.
