The Parenting Journal

Most parents think about drowning when they picture bathroom danger. The burn risk is quieter, easier to overlook, and almost entirely preventable. Scalding from hot tap water is one of the leading causes of unintentional burn injuries in young children,...

The hotel room looks fine. That’s the problem. It looks like a room. Neutral walls, tidy bed, a minibar tucked under the desk. But if you drop to your knees and look at it the way your one-year-old will in...

The kitchen is the most dangerous room in your house for a toddler. Not the bathroom, not the stairs. The kitchen, and specifically the area around your stove and oven. I learned this in a specific, stomach-dropping way when my...

Every nursery looks safe the day you set it up. The furniture is new, the crib is assembled, the little onesies are folded in the drawer. Then your baby starts moving, and you realize the room you designed for sleeping...

The houseplant on your windowsill probably came from a garden center with a cheerful little care tag. Watering schedule, light requirements, maybe a common name. What those tags almost never include: whether your baby can survive chewing on a leaf....

The bedroom feels like a safe place. It’s quiet, familiar, the room where you’ve rocked a baby to sleep a hundred times. But CPSC data tells a different story: half of all child tip-over deaths happen in the bedroom, compared...

The rental looks charming in the photos. Open floor plan, sliding glass doors to a patio, a loft bedroom, a kitchen with a low island. Then you arrive with a 14-month-old and see it differently. That low island has sharp...

The kitchen is the most dangerous room in your house for a child under five. Not the bathroom. Not the garage. The kitchen, where you spend hours every day, where the hazards are hot and sharp and toxic, and where...

Every yard has at least one hazard you haven’t thought of yet. Outdoor spaces are larger, less controlled, and full of variables that shift with the season, the weather, and how fast your toddler has learned to run this week....