"Music is something that nobody can take away from you.
It's joyful.
If you're stressed, you can use it.
It's very healing."
So saysami Losoncy, a music educator in Tulsa, Okla., who has been teaching children a variety of music styles, including jazz, rock, classical, and children's classics, since 2000.
Now she's re-naming her program Bounc'n Beethovens, and hopes to take it nationwide, the Tulsa World reports.
"I started with this, so this has been my baby from the very beginning," Losoncy says.
"Music is something that nobody can take away from you.
It's joyful.
If you're stressed, you can use it.
It's very healing."
Losoncy started the program in 2000 at monthly library events, and it quickly grew to about 10 attendees and 80 attendees at each library event, she says.
Now she's hoping to expand the program to preschools and in-home daycares.
At the end of the class, the Stillwater Public Library handed out take-home bags containing egg shakers, wrist bells, and a movement scarf.
"I was really looking for something like this for them at
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