It improves reading and verbal skills.

It improves math and spacial-temporal reasoning.

It helps to raise academic grades.

It helps to raise IQ.

It helps in learning additional foreign languages.

It improves listening skills.

It helps to slow the affect of aging.

It strengthens the motor cortex.

It improves working memory.

It improves long-term memory for visual stimuli.

It helps in dealing with anxiety.

It increases self-esteem and confidence.

It helps increase creativity.

--From "Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You."

And just think, the longer your child is in music, the more of each of the above benefits they will absorb.