Kidz Jam founder Kumi Masunaga encourages parents and caregivers to enjoy participating in drum jams where children share, listen, take turns, lead, follow, and respond. Kidz Jam provides successful experiences, enhancing children's self-esteem and nurturing their creative expressions, all in a form of recreational music-making. Kidz Jam is not a music lesson. There is no "1 e & a 2 e & a..." reading off the page. Instead, kids are asked to create and play their own rhythms.

In this session, you'll:

• Discover how fostering children's self-esteem is one of the most important things parents and caregivers can do
• Learn how drumming nurtures children's creative expression and builds confidence, because there are no wrong notes in drumming, and there are no mistakes or failures
• See how group drumming creates social and emotional improvements, and learn interactive and collaborative activities for children to work on skills such as turn-taking and sharing