Hello and welcome to the Curious Kid podcast.

Every week, my curious four-year-old daughter Olivia and I will dive headfirst into a different topic and try to learn new and interesting stuff.

On our journey, we hope to discover things that will be entertaining and educational for kids and grownups alike.

This week for our first podcast, Olivia and I will get curious about sleep.

Okay, so I'm here with my daughter and co-host Olivia.

Hi.

The two of us are going to be discussing sleep today.

We are going to start off the episode by asking a question that we

will answer at the end of the podcast. Take some time to think about the answer, and we will see

if you were right in just a few minutes. Our question of the week is, do fish sleep? But before we

discuss fish and other animals, let's talk about how humans sleep first.

Did you know that humans spend more than a third of their lives sleeping?

Of course. Sleep is important for people.

That's right. And if you're a little kid, five years or younger, you probably spend even more time than that sleeping.

Newborns spend 14 to 17 hours a day asleep. Toddlers spend 11 to 14 hours asleep every day. Preschoolers and Olivia

falls in this class spend 10 to 13 hours each day asleep. And if you're an adult 18 years

are up, you probably spend about

seven to nine hours a day sleeping, which is a third of the day. And if you think humans sleep a lot

today, consider the fact that humans actually used to sleep more than they do today. Since the

invention and widespread use of the light bulb, humans have lost about an hour and a half of sleep

daily, meaning that before humans were

able to just flick a switch and light up their homes, humans used to usually go to sleep right

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