El diario de crianza

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...

The dining room doesn’t look dangerous. That’s the problem. There’s no open water, no stairs, no obvious drop. What there is: hard edges at exactly toddler-head height, a tablecloth a curious two-year-old can yank with both fists, glassware at arm’s...

The laundry room is one of the most hazardous rooms in your home, and it rarely makes the top of the babyproofing list. In my experience, parents spend hours on nursery safety and cabinet locks in the kitchen, then leave...

The home office is one of the most dangerous rooms in the house for a toddler, and most parents don’t realize it until something goes wrong. I learned this the hard way when my younger daughter, at around 18 months,...

Every summer, a brightly colored inflatable pool appears in backyards across the country, and with it comes a risk that most parents underestimate. These aren’t deep pools. They aren’t complicated. They look like toys. But drowning is the leading cause...

The loop cord hanging behind my nursery curtains didn’t look dangerous. It was tucked back, out of the way, and I’d been looking at it for months without a second thought. Then my older daughter learned to pull herself up...

Every year, about 3,500 infants die from sleep-related causes in the United States (CDC SUID data). That number is not a rounding error or a statistical artifact. It is the size of a small elementary school, and almost all of...

The garage is the most dangerous room in most homes, and it’s almost never on the babyproofing list. Parents spend hours on cabinet locks and outlet covers, then leave a door wide open to a space full of pesticides, power...