• Six percent of American children want to be president. Thirteen percent want to be musicians, according to a study by Busch Entertainment Corporation.
• Music has the power to relax, energize and motivate. A study by Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of California at Irvine says that it can improve your intelligence.
• Four and five year-olds who had eight months of musical instruction scored 43 percent higher on IQ tests than those who received no music lessons.
• In a follow-up study, Shaw and Rauscher found that musical instruction enhanced preschoolers' reasoning more than computer instruction.
• Fetuses in womb show measurable response to musical stimulation.
• By the year 2000, 19 million children in the United States will be under the age of five.
• When Child Care in Rochester, New York asked children attending preschool what they enjoyed most about their preschool experience, over 60 percent said singing and music.
• Quality interaction with mom and dad builds brainpower. Research by the University of Maryland researchers found that the part of the brain that regulates emotion also influences a child's ability to learn.
• Between the ages of three and four, a child's vocabulary quadruples from 1,000 to over 4,000 words. That's about nine new words a day.
• The average person will spend 1,527 hours watching television and only 257 hours listening to music.
• You child can take weekly Kindermusik classes for the price of one or several fast-food meals.

Statistics from Statistical Abstracts, Rauscher; and Kindermusik International, where not noted.