El diario de crianza

Parents often focus on what’s on the floor before their baby starts crawling, then scramble to address it once a newly mobile baby is already halfway under the coffee table.The carpet-versus-tile question comes up constantly, and the honest answer is...

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. A baby gate is one of...

Most parents picture baby-proofing as something they’ll get to eventually, maybe after the first crawl. That’s the wrong order. By the time your baby is pulling across the floor toward the dog’s water bowl, you’ve already lost the window.The AAP...

Every year, about 3,300 children age 5 and younger are treated in U.S. emergency rooms for window fall injuries (CPSC). That number stops me every time I read it, because I know exactly how fast it happens. My younger daughter...

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 plastic outlet cap sitting in your toddler’s mouth is not a hypothetical. It happens. And the parents who discover it are usually the ones who installed the caps specifically to prevent a different kind of danger.This is the central...

The goal of a yes space is simple: give your baby a defined area where the answer to every question is yes. Yes, you can touch that. Yes, you can pull that out. Yes, you can explore freely. No redirecting,...

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...