The Parenting Journal

About 9,400 children under age 3 are treated in U.S. emergency departments each year for high-chair-related injuries (CPSC). That number stopped me cold when I first read it, because I know exactly how those moments happen. You turn around to...

Every 15 seconds, someone in the U.S. calls a poison center about an exposure, about 2.1 million calls in 2024 alone, according to America’s Poison Centers. A significant share of those calls involve children who found something under the kitchen...

Every 15 seconds, someone in the U.S. calls a poison center about an exposure. America’s Poison Centers logged nearly 2.1 million human poison exposures in 2024, the equivalent of one case every 15 seconds. And when you narrow that down...

The drawer my older daughter opened at 22 months wasn’t the knife drawer. It was the one below it, the one I figured was fine because it held baking sheets and a cast iron skillet. She pulled the drawer all...

Every parent has a cabinet story. Mine happened on a Tuesday afternoon when I answered the doorbell, came back to find my younger daughter standing in the kitchen with the under-sink cabinet wide open, a bottle of dish soap in...