The Parenting Journal

Most parents spend weeks researching car seats and outlet covers before their baby comes home. Almost none of them take a first aid course first. That gap is worth closing before you need it.Emergencies don’t announce themselves. They happen while...

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. A significant share of those calls...

About 93,000 children under 5 are treated in U.S. emergency rooms each year for stair-related injuries. That’s one child every six minutes, according to a Nationwide Children’s Hospital analysis of CPSC data. And stairs are just one hazard in a...

Your toddler just opened the cabinet you locked three weeks ago. They’re holding a bottle of dish soap and looking extremely pleased with themselves. This is not a parenting failure. It is, frustratingly, developmentally right on schedule.Toddlers between 18 months...

Every parent has a version of this story. Mine happened on a Tuesday afternoon when my younger daughter, not yet 18 months old, emptied the entire under-sink cabinet in the time it took me to answer the front door. Sponges,...

The first outdoor trip with a newborn feels like a military operation. Sunscreen? Too young. Bug spray? Which kind? Hat, yes, but how much shade is enough shade? You’re standing in the driveway with a stroller and a diaper bag...

About 3,500 infants die each year from sleep-related causes in the United States, according to CDC SUID data. That number stopped me cold when I first read it during my older daughter’s newborn weeks, sitting in the dark at 3...

Every parent building a registry faces the same quiet panic: the lists are infinite, the opinions are loud, and nobody tells you which items matter for your baby’s safety versus which ones are just clever marketing. This guide focuses on...