All parents want their best for their children, but your child's extra curricular activities are having a lasting impact you're hoping for? Maybe is time to consider music for your child. Music education during childhood has been shown to have a multitude of benefits, it sharpens student's attentiveness, abstract reasoning and creativity. Children who are musically trained have stronger every day listening and memory skills. In addition, music engages both sides of the brain and challenges children to simultaneously concentrate on multiple tasks. Music and math are highly intertwined by understanding bits, rythm and scales. Even the youngest music makers are learning how to divide, create fractions and recognize patterns. Music also helps children develop coordination and motor skills, as well as self disciplined and self esteem. Students who participate in music programs consistently score higher in mathematics and english than their peers. Students have also shown that individuals who took music lessons