The Parenting Journal

Key Takeaways Start with the kitchen, bathroom, and nursery before tackling any other room. Remove all soft items from the crib sleep space, it costs nothing and saves lives. Hardware-mounted gates at stair tops cannot be dislodged by a determined...

The furniture in your child’s bedroom is probably the most overlooked hazard in your home. Not the outlet covers you spent twenty minutes debating at the hardware store. Not the cabinet locks. The KALLAX loaded with board games. The MALM...

Key Takeaways Begin hardware installs in the third trimester, not after the shower. Use the shower as a gear audit, not a starting point. Anchor furniture, secure blind cords, and check the sleep area before baby comes home. Complete floor-level...

The cord hanging beside your living room window has probably never crossed your mind as dangerous. It blends in. It’s always been there. But for a toddler who has just learned to pull, reach, and climb, that cord is one...

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 works out to roughly one child every six minutes. If you’re standing...

Renting with a baby is a puzzle that most parenting guides quietly ignore. The advice assumes you own your walls. You don’t. And that changes everything from the staircase gate to the dresser strap to the cabinet lock under the...

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...

Every year, parents buy the same three things first: a baby monitor, a car seat, and a cute mobile for the crib. Then the baby starts moving, and the real education begins.Babyproofing is not a single afternoon project. It is...

Every new parent I know has a version of the same story. They spent two weekends installing cabinet locks and outlet covers, stepped back to admire their work, and felt accomplished. Then their kid found the one thing they missed.I’ve...