Is your child too old to learn to sing?

We have a window of opportunity to help children develop their musical abilities. They can learn to sing on pitch, to move gracefully, and to keep a steady beat. This window is from birth to about age 9. This is the time when the brain is receptive to learning a new language, and music is a second language. The earlier you start, the better. Begin with ear training and listening skills, and add movement and motions to your teaching.

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Singing range of a 3 year old

What can we expect the singing range of a three-year-old to be? About 3 notes, such as C, D, and E. As they mature, they will be able to sing an octave in range, or about 8 pitches or notes. The more we model singing for them as parents, the more they will want to sing.

Why does do, re, mi solfege help me read music?

In musical ear training, solfège is a technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfège syllable. The seven syllables used for this practice in English-speaking countries are: do (or doh ), re, mi, fa, sol (so in tonic), la, and ti/si, which may be heard in "Do-Re-Mi" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's score for The Sound of Music.
Learning solfege in singing very naturally leads to recognizing musical intervals in music notation, in an easy and organic way. The beginning of “Here Comes the Bride” is a fourth, and is sung in solfege as do fa, fa, fa in your major 5-finger position on the piano. This method leads to lifelong musical literacy and learning when singing or playing a musical instrument. Thank you, Wikipedia, for the skeleton of this post.