Parenting Facts

New parents typically lose 400-750 hours of sleep during their baby's first year, with some estimates as low as 350-400 hours per parent. That's roughly equivalent to losing one full night of sleep every week.

In Lucerne, Switzerland, you can hire an evil clown to stalk your child for a week before their birthday, and on that day, he will smash a cake into your child’s face.

Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.

Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.

A new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life - almost 44 days!

Every baby born in Finland gets a government-issued cardboard box. Inside: clothes, diapers, sleeping bag, mattress, and supplies. The box itself is the baby's first bed. Finland started this in 1938 — and its infant mortality rate dropped from one of Europe's worst to one of the world's best.

Quokkas are known as the world's happiest animal because they always look like they're smiling. But when a predator shows up, mothers eject their baby from the pouch and let it flop around on the ground as a distraction while they run away.

Eminem won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2003 for "Lose Yourself" - the first rap song ever to win that award. He wasn't there. He was asleep in Detroit because his daughter Hailie had school early the next morning. He slept through history.