While New Year's Eve countdowns are exciting for most people, celebrating the New Year can be a problem for parents with little kids who they need to put to bed early.
According to PR News Wire, a Netflix survey that asked more than 9,000 parents via SurveyMonkey from December 4 to 15 found that 97 percent of parents around the world have at least one child under 12.
The survey also revealed that nearly half of U.S., U.K., Canadian and Australian parents do their New Year's Eve countdowns by 9 p.m. so that they could get their children to sleep early.
For more specific results in America, 48 percent of parents revealed how they will be doing their 2016 New Year's Eve countdowns by 9 p.m. while 73 percent said they would begin theirs before midnight. Meanwhile, 41 percent of American parents revealed that they're actually planning to trick their kids into getting to bed early by creating their own special New Year's Eve countdown.
Netflix already offered a kids' countdown starting last year, which featured "Madagascar's" King Julien as host, according to Market Watch.
Netflix Director of Consumer Public Relations Jenny McCabe claimed that the viewers who tuned in to the kids' countdown was "enough that we expanded it this year and went with six of our originals." As a result, it's already expected that the company will offer another kids' countdown for 2016.
As reported by CBS News, Netflix's 2016 New Year's Eve kids' special can be viewed any time before December 31 midnight, allowing parents to choose what time and which show they want to swap with.
The host of options Netflix has in store for kids and parents include the Care Bears & Cousins, King Julien, stars of Project Mc2, Inspector Gadget, Puffin Rock's Oona and Baba and Mr. Peabody and Sherman. All countdown options are via Netflix original content since about 50 percent of their patrons watch kids' content regularly anyway.
According to McCabe, Netflix got the idea of the New Year's Eve special offering from the idea of releasing all "House of Cards" episodes at the same time.
"What Netflix offers to our members is they get to choose how they want to watch TV shows and movies," McCabe said.
"What Netflix means to people already is that you get to choose," she added.
Netflix's 2016 kids' New Year's Eve countdown is certainly a blessing for some parents as it's the perfect solution to the problem of how to get their own party started for the New Year. Apparently, a survey of parents in Spain and Mexico found that 50 percent go to parties after sending their kids to bed.
Check out a video of Netflix's offering to parents for a stress-free welcome to 2016.