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...

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...

Every year, about 3,300 children age 5 and younger are treated in U.S. emergency rooms for window fall injuries (CPSC). That number doesn’t include older kids, and it doesn’t include falls that ended worse. Windows in homes with young children...

Every year, about 3,300 children age 5 and younger are treated in U.S. emergency rooms for window fall injuries (CPSC). That number stops me every time I read it, because I know exactly how fast it happens. My younger daughter...

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