The Parenting Journal

Most parents picture crawling as a distant milestone, something to worry about later. Then one afternoon your baby rolls across the room and disappears behind the couch, and "later" is suddenly right now.The window between "not yet mobile" and "everywhere...

Most parents picture baby-proofing as something they’ll get to eventually, maybe after the first crawl. That’s the wrong order. By the time your baby is pulling across the floor toward the dog’s water bowl, you’ve already lost the window.The AAP...

Most parents think of babyproofing as a project they’ll get to eventually. Then their baby gets up on all fours and covers six feet of floor in about four seconds, and "eventually" becomes this afternoon.Month seven is the deadline. Not...