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What to Do If a Child Is Choking
Your child is choking. They cannot cough, cry, or breathe. You have seconds to respond. Knowing exactly what to do—whether to perform back blows, ches...
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What to Do if a Child Falls Into Water
Despite all prevention efforts, water emergencies can still occur. Knowing how to respond if a child falls into water or becomes unresponsive in water...
3 min read
Safety
Cuts and Scrapes: What to Do at Home and What Needs Stitches
A lot of long-standing first-aid advice for cuts and scrapes was wrong. Hydrogen peroxide and iodine, the two staples of every parent's first aid box,...
7 min read
Safety
First Aid Every Parent Should Actually Have in Their Head
The reality of parental first aid is that you'll use it rarely, and when you do, you'll have about 30 seconds before adrenaline takes over. The list o...
8 min read
Safety
When a Child Swallows Something They Shouldn't: A Triage Guide
By the time a child can crawl, they will put almost anything that fits into their mouth. Most of the time, the result is a wet, slightly chewed object...
11 min read
Safety
When a Child Falls: Sorting the Bumps from the Real Trouble
By the time a child can walk, they will have fallen hundreds of times. Most of those falls will produce nothing more than a startle, a brief cry, and...
13 min read
Health
Burns and Scalds in Children: First Aid That Actually Works
Childhood burns are frighteningly fast — a pulled-down mug of tea, a grab at a hair straightener, a trip into a hot bath. The peak age is 1 to 3 years...
6 min read
Health
Diarrhoea in Young Children: First Aid and Home Management
A toddler with proper diarrhoea — six, eight, ten loose stools a day — is exhausting, messy, and can be worrying. The reassuring part: in the under-5...
7 min read
Safety
Signs of Choking in Babies and Young Children: How to Tell
The popular image of choking — a dramatic coughing fit, hands flying to the throat — is the lucky version. The dangerous version is silent. A child wh...
6 min read
Safety
What to Do if a Child Is Choking: Step-by-Step First Aid
A choking emergency gives you about ninety seconds before brain injury becomes a real risk. There isn't time to look up what to do. The technique has...
7 min read
Safety
Keeping Your Child Safe: A Complete Home and Outdoor Safety Guide
A child needs to fall over to learn how not to fall, and a parent who tries to stop every bump ends up exhausted and produces a less coordinated child...
9 min read
Health
Bruises in Children: Normal Bumps and When to Be Concerned
Toddlers bruise constantly. Newly mobile bodies, no judgement about heights or hard edges, and dozens of falls a week produce a steady supply of bumps...
4 min read
Safety
Swallowed Objects in Children: What to Do and When to Act
The "did they just swallow that?" moment is universal toddler parenting. The good news is that most things a child swallows go through harmlessly — th...
6 min read
Health
Nosebleeds in Children: Why They Happen and How to Stop Them
A school sends home a child with a stained jumper and the parent panics; in reality the volume on the fabric is two teaspoons of blood spread thin. No...
8 min read
Health
Nosebleeds in Children: Causes, First Aid, and When to Worry
A nosebleed in a child looks worse than it almost ever is. The bathroom sink, the school jumper, the panicked text from nursery — all of it adds up to...
7 min read
Safety
Infant and Child CPR: What Every Parent Should Know
This is the article you hope you never need. Most parents never will. But the gap between knowing roughly what to do in the first two minutes of a pae...
6 min read
Safety
Head Injuries in Children: When to Worry and When to Wait
Children fall on their heads. Frequently, in many cases. The toddler who tumbles off the sofa, the preschooler who runs headlong into a door frame, th...
5 min read
Safety
Burns and Scalds in Children: First Aid and When to Seek Help
Burns and scalds are among the most common serious injuries in young children, and almost everything that matters for the long-term outcome happens in...
5 min read