Ever wonder what keeps your doctor so busy that you have to wait 57 minutes past your scheduled appointment? Maybe your physician and nurses are shuffling old X-rays and playing makeshift card games. ("Got any busted clavicles?" "Go fish!")

By now, you should know enough to bring your own reading material, considering you've read and re-read those outdated magazines in the waiting room. What to do? Take this music mini-quiz to learn what your music stance says about your parenting style. Then, share the unscientific results with your waiting room peers. It's a surefire way to burn the waiting time.

1. Playing music while pregnant will:
   1. Stimulate the logic centers of your baby's rapidly developing brain.
   2. Provide the appropriate soundtrack for a happy pregnancy.
   3. Drown out your fears about financing your child's college education.
   
   
2. The relatively quiet and soothing strains of classical music will:
   1. Gently stimulate your unborn baby's synaptic responses.
   2. Help you remain calm and focused during labor.
   3. Lull the baby's father into a zombielike coma.
   
   
3. Continuing to play gentle music for your newborn baby ensures:
   1. A solid follow up to the work you started during gestation.
   2. A relaxed, yet secure, atmosphere for your child.
   3. Your child will start screaming the moment s/he experiences dead silence.
   
   
4. Allowing your toddler easy access to musical instruments will:
   1. Encourage your child to create and solve problems in a supportive environment.
   2. Provide your child with many enjoyable hours of constructive playtime.
   3. Make sure that nobody ever drops in unexpectedly again.
   
   
5. In preparing the musical environment for the baby, the father's role is:
   1. Whatever the mother says it is.
   2. Whatever the mother says it is.
   3. Whatever the mother says it is.