Babies in utero are surrounded by different body rhythms: heartbeat, breathing, digestive rumbles, and the ordinary sounds of daily life they may hear through the womb wall.
Once born, their wider experience of rhythm will include changing seasons, night and day, sleeping and waking. Aligning personal body rhythms with the wider world and the demands of others can often be challenging in the first two years.
As children grow and develop, their experience of rhythm widens to include different languages and genres of music. Timing also emerges as an important physical skill as they explore the environment and engage with more complex resources independently.
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