Children living in Escondido Village as of October 25: 417
Expectant mothers in Escondido Village as of October 25: 29
Ratio in Escondido Village of children of graduate students to children of undergrads: 70:1
Children served by on-campus centers that offer full-time child care: 401
Hot dogs purchased for children at Reunion Homecoming 2005: 301
Children who had their faces painted at Reunion Homecoming 2005: 400
Adults who had their faces painted: 20
Cost, in dollars, of raising a child for 17 years in 1960: 25,230
Cost, in dollars, of raising a child for 17 years in 2000: 165,630
Percentage of increase, adjusted for inflation: 13
Percentage of total cost spent on child care and education in 1960: 1
Percentage of total cost spent on child care and education in 2000: 10
Pediatric visits to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in 2005: 10,210
Percentage of LPCH patients from states other than California (excluding normal newborns): 3.2
Feet of track laid for Leland Stanford Jr.’s “toy” train: 400
Thomas the Tank Engine items for sale under toys and games at Amazon.com: 154
Birthday cakes delivered to students in 2004-05 by Stanford Parents’ Club: 559
School supply items requested of all first graders at Palo Alto’s Lucille M. Nixon Elementary School: 20
Number of these that are writing implements: 9
Length, in inches, of the Inner Quad from arcade to arcade: 6,984
Fourth graders, lying head to toe, that would fit across the Quad: 131.8
Games in youth winter basketball league season at Palo Alto Family YMCA: 8
Games in Stanford men’s basketball season, 2005-06: 27
Annual emergency room visits nationwide by school-aged children that are backpack-related: 7,500
Percentage of backpack injuries attributed to tripping over packs: 29
Americans who contracted chicken pox annually before 1995, when a vaccine became available: 4,000,000
Percentage of chicken pox cases prevented by the varicella vaccination: 80
Children’s outreach programs administered through the Haas Center for Public Service: 26
Children from local Boys and Girls Clubs who participate in Haas’s Science in Service: 100
Height, in feet, of an inflatable, crawl-in planetarium used by Science in Service to display the night sky: 13.5
Percentage of 4- to 6-year-olds who can load a CD-ROM by themselves: 40
Minutes per day children ages 0-6 spend using screen media: 118
Percentage of children who live in a home where the TV is on “always” or “most of the time”: 36
T-ball teams in Palo Alto Little League: 16
Number of those sponsored by high-tech companies: 0
Number of those sponsored by food retailers: 3
Children’s fashion stores in the Stanford Shopping Center: 7
Price, in dollars, of a Tiffany sterling silver child’s race car cup: 575
Approximate time, in minutes, for an adult to run down Palm Drive: 8.9
Approximate time, in minutes, for a baby to crawl down Palm Drive: 54.9
Sources: Stanford WorkLife Office, Stanford Alumni Association, Twinkie Dee Star, USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University Archives, Amazon, Lucille M. Nixon Elementary School, Stanford Parents’ Club, Stanford Maps and Records, Palo Alto Family YMCA, gostanford.com, Reuters Health, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Duke University Medical Center, Haas Center for Public Service, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Palo Alto Little League, Stanford Shopping Center, Tiffany and Co., Nike Farm Team.
