Child Development Facts

Babies who are actively crawling can cover around 200 meters (over 650 feet) in a day during their mobile periods.

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.

The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.

Babies are born without knee caps.

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!

By age 10, more than half of American girls report being unhappy with their bodies, and many have already tried some form of dieting.

Most Japanese schools don't have dedicated janitors. Instead, children do the daily cleaning, which originated from the Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality.

Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.

In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.

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