The Parenting Journal

Most parents childproof the kitchen and the bathroom without a second thought. The garage gets a mental asterisk: I’ll deal with that later. But "later" has a way of arriving the moment a curious two-year-old figures out the door handle.The...

Roughly one child every six minutes is treated for a stair-related injury in a U.S. emergency room. That number, drawn from a Nationwide Children’s Hospital analysis of CPSC NEISS data, represents about 93,000 children under 5 per year. If you...

The room looks perfect in the photos. Soft paint, coordinating furniture, a glowing nightlight in the corner. Then you bring your baby home and realize the beautiful dresser is positioned directly under the window, the cord from the roman shade...

Falls happen. Every playroom floor is either part of the solution or part of the problem.The surface your child lands on when they tumble off a foam block tower, miss a step down from a play loft, or simply trip...

The nursery is the room parents spend the most time decorating and the least time stress-testing. That’s a problem.A beautiful gallery wall above the crib, floating shelves lined with soft toys and succulents, a dreamy mobile spinning overhead. It looks...

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 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 room in your house contains something that could seriously harm your baby. In a specific, fixable, room-by-room way that most parents don’t fully map until something goes wrong.I learned this the hard way when my younger daughter emptied the...

The kitchen is the most dangerous room in your house for a toddler. Not the bathroom, not the stairs. The kitchen, and specifically the area around your stove and oven.I learned this in a specific, stomach-dropping way when my younger...