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Mommy Mondays: Teaching Complexity to a Concrete Mind

September 23, 2013

My 6-almost-7 year old son views the world in very concrete ways. For example, to him events in the world are either fair or not fair. If his sister is snuggling with me, then he should get to snuggle with me for the exact same amount of time . . . or it won’t be […]

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[PsychToday] Translating Comedic Impression to Clinical Experience

September 22, 2013

The following video recently made the rounds in music therapy-land. When I first watched the video, I was highly entertained, moving to the music and laughing at my favorite impressions: Julie Andrews, Zooey Deschanel, Celine Dion… When I watched the video a second time, I began to think…wow! How is she DOING that?…(read more)

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Mommy Mondays: 9 Things I Did Right as a First-Time Mommy

September 3, 2013

I had kids early compared with most of my friends. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but now my circle of peers are beginning to have their own children, many of them for the first time. One advantage of this wave of new babies is that it has prompted me to reflect […]

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What to Do When Your Profession is Dissed

August 29, 2013

I love music therapy. I am fascinated with the science of it, the art of it, and the humanity of it. It’s intellectually and emotionally challenging and rewarding. I have chosen to make music therapy my life’s work. No matter what particular “job” I may be doing—Regulatory Affairs Associate, PhD student, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Clinician, […]

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Mommy Mondays: Best Laid Plans

August 20, 2013

I wonder sometimes whether most of parenting success can be attributed to not taking things too seriously and to laughing at yourself. I’ve always found coordinating childcare to be stressful. It seems to take tremendous emotional and mental energy to make the phone calls, coordinate spousal schedules, send the emails, and do all those other […]

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SMPC 2013 Wrap-up and Reflections

August 13, 2013

I have recently returned from the 2013 meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), which was held at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. On the first leg of my return trip, I was asked by the gentleman sitting next to me to share the “one big thing” I learned at this conference. […]

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Mommy Mondays: Holding What’s Sacred

August 5, 2013

Following the religious definitions, in the very last entry, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “sacred” as “highly valued and important.” My children and I have these little rituals, these interactive patterns of engagement through which we are letting the other know that he or she is loved. I have different rituals for my son and different […]

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[PsychToday] 43 Easy Ways to Engage Young Kids in Music

August 2, 2013

Evidence is mounting that encouraging your child’s involvement in music is good for his or her development. Research indicates that music training helps make children better at language, math, and science. And as any parent will tell you, children are naturally musical. They create sounds out of found objects (e.g. pots and pans), sing themselves […]

10 Strategies for Processing the Big Ideas

July 30, 2013

It has officially been more than two weeks since I have last updated my blog! Yikes! It has been quite a productive two weeks, though. I’ve spent the majority of the time making progress on my scholarly work. This is an exciting stage for me—many of my ideas, readings, and writings are finally starting to […]

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