The Parenting Journal

About 93,000 children under 5 are treated in U.S. emergency rooms each year for stair-related injuries (Nationwide Children’s Hospital analysis of CPSC NEISS data). A baby gate is the single most direct intervention between your child and those stairs. So...

About 93,000 children under 5 are treated in U.S. emergency rooms each year for stair-related injuries, according to a Nationwide Children’s Hospital analysis of CPSC NEISS data. That’s roughly one child every six minutes. And a significant share of those...

The moment you have multiples, every safety assumption you made for a single child becomes unreliable. One adult, three toddlers, and a flight of stairs is a math problem with no good answer. Babyproofing for twins, triplets, or more is...

Basements are where the hazards your child will find fastest are the ones you forgot were there. The half-empty jug of driveway sealer. The old shelving unit that wobbles if you look at it wrong. The sump pit you covered...

Approximately 2,400 children are treated in U.S. emergency rooms each year for electrical outlet injuries (CPSC). That number has stayed stubbornly consistent for years, and it doesn’t have to. Most of those injuries are preventable with the right cover installed...

The moment you close your laptop lid at 5pm used to mean the workday was over. Now your office is also your living space, and "closing time" is a concept your toddler has never respected.Working from home with a baby...

About 93,000 children under 5 are treated in U.S. emergency rooms each year for stair-related injuries. That number comes from a Nationwide Children’s Hospital analysis of CPSC NEISS data, and it is the reason most parents start researching baby gates...

A playpen feels like a solution. You put the baby down, turn your back for three minutes, and nothing terrible happens. It works so reliably that it’s easy to start thinking of it as a substitute for baby proofing rather...

The dining room doesn’t look dangerous. That’s the problem. There’s no open water, no stairs, no obvious drop. What there is: hard edges at exactly toddler-head height, a tablecloth a curious two-year-old can yank with both fists, glassware at arm’s...