The Parenting Journal

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...

Every year, thousands of parents install cabinet locks, feel relieved, and then discover their toddler has already figured out the one they bought. I know this firsthand. My older daughter defeated an adhesive strap lock at 26 months. She didn’t...

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 retractable gate that won’t pull back is one of those problems that feels minor until it isn’t. You’re carrying a laundry basket, the gate is stuck open across the hallway, and your toddler is already three steps up the...

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...

From 1991 to 2001, more than 24,000 children under 10 were treated in U.S. emergency rooms for electrical outlet injuries, about 7 a day (Electrical Safety Foundation International, citing CPSC data). Most of those injuries are preventable with the right...