The Parenting Journal

The short answer is: it depends on which gate and which stairs. The top and bottom of the stairs carry different risk profiles and require different timelines. Key Takeaways Bottom-of-stairs gates can typically come down around 24 months, watch your...

Key Takeaways Set your water heater to 120°F (49°C) or below to prevent serious scald burns. Most heaters ship at 140°F, where full-thickness burns occur in under five seconds. Always test at the farthest faucet from your heater for an...

Outlet covers are one of the first things parents buy. They’re also one of the first things parents lose. Either down the back of the couch, under the fridge, or into whatever void swallows small plastic objects in a house...

Furniture corners send roughly 67,000 children to emergency rooms every year, according to the CPSC, and most of those injuries happen at home, on furniture families see everyday. Coffee tables, hearths, TV stands, or the corner of a dresser that’s...

Sliding glass doors are one of those hazards that don’t look like hazards. They’re just the door to the backyard. But the CPSC estimates that glass doors account for tens of thousands of emergency room visits each year, and that...

Newborn nails are absurdly sharp. That’s not an exaggeration, within days of bringing my younger daughter home, she scratched her own cheek badly enough that I spent a full afternoon convinced I’d somehow failed at the most basic task of...

1 per 2 wks — Children killed by furniture tip-overs in the U.S. Most babies start crawling between 7 and 10 months, but the real safety work begins earlier.Crawling changes everything. Once a baby becomes mobile, everyday objects at floor...

The holiday season brings a particular kind of chaos to homes with small children, and I mean that in the best possible way. But I also mean it literally. The year my older daughter turned two, I watched her dismantle...

On average, every two weeks a child dies from a furniture or TV tip-over in the United States. That number comes directly from the CPSC, and it has remained largely unchanged for over a decade. Simple, affordable solutions exist that...