The Parenting Journal

The cord hanging beside your living room window has probably never crossed your mind as dangerous. It blends in. It’s always been there. But for a toddler who has just learned to pull, reach, and climb, that cord is one...

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 works out to roughly one child every six minutes. If you’re standing...

Renting with a baby is a puzzle that most parenting guides quietly ignore. The advice assumes you own your walls. You don’t. And that changes everything from the staircase gate to the dresser strap to the cabinet lock under the...

A playpen feels like a solution. You put the baby down, turn your back for three minutes, and nothing terrible happens. It works so reliably that it’s easy to start thinking of it as a substitute for baby proofing rather...

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