“One study found that 6-month-olds ‘danced’ to baby speak, sometimes known as baby talk. Because of the extreme pitch fluctuations and sound stretching, infants enjoy this form of speech at this age. This is not to say that they believe baby talk to be music, but it does have a musical character, so it seems to reason that they would dance to it. “Older babies dance more to music than to speech,” Neuhaus observes.

So it appears that babies “boop” and move to music for biological reasons. However, Ganjian claims that parents also influence their children to dance to music. “A real dance is usually taught by parents who move their bodies, heads, and arms when the music starts.” Children frequently observe their parents clapping and attempt to clap or move to the music.”

According to Posner, playing music for your child can aid in language development and be comforting, in addition to being really sweet to witness your youngster dancing to music. And what you play for them determines the relaxing factor. While Ganjian feels that softer music is preferable to rough music for babies, and that music without or with slow words is preferable, Artzt argues that any music can be useful.