The Parenting Journal

The nursery you’ve spent weeks setting up looks perfect at 2 p.m. At 2 a.m., it’s a different room entirely. You’re navigating in the dark, trying not to stub a toe on the glider, trying not to wake a baby...

Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death in children ages 1–4 (CDC). Not car accidents. Not falls. Water. And most of those deaths happen in home water, in bathtubs and backyard pools and five-gallon buckets left out after...

Toddlers discover the stove knobs shortly after they discover the stove.My younger daughter cleared an entire under-sink cabinet in the time it took me to answer the door. The stove was next on her list. I know this because I...

Every 15 seconds, someone in the U.S. calls a poison center about an exposure. America’s Poison Centers logged nearly 2.1 million human poison exposures in 2024, the equivalent of one case every 15 seconds. A significant portion of those calls...

Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death in children ages 1–4 (CDC). Not falls. Not traffic accidents. Water. And in most of those cases, the child was last seen inside the house.A fence changes that math. But only...

Every child deserves a home that keeps them safe. For autistic children, that bar is higher, and the work is more specific.Standard baby proofing assumes a child who responds to danger the way most children do: flinching from sharp edges,...

Children under 4 die from choking on ordinary household objects. Not toys marketed to older kids. Not obvious hazards. Ordinary things: a grape, a coin, a button battery from the TV remote. The tragedy is that most of these objects...

The battery in a greeting card. The one loose in your junk drawer. The CR2032 that fell out of the kitchen scale and rolled under the refrigerator. These are not minor household hazards. For a child under six, a single...

The first time I traveled solo with both kids, I spent forty minutes in a rental car parking lot trying to remember whether the LATCH anchors in that particular Chevy Traverse were in the seat bight or on the seatback....