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Bucket drownings are the kind of paediatric tragedy that makes parents cry when they read about it, because the prevention is so trivially simple. A n...
A child explores by mouth from about four months until they're three or so. Almost everything a small child gets injured by at home falls into a short...
Poisoning from household cleaning products is one of the most common types of poisoning in young children, according to poison control centers. Most i...
Unintentional poisoning is one of the most common causes of preventable injury in children under five. Many everyday household substances that are saf...
The "loose parts" idea, named by the architect Simon Nicholson in 1971, holds up well: the more a material can be used in different ways, the more inv...
Six months in, most couples can tell you exactly who does the laundry. Almost none can tell you who is in charge of remembering the pediatrician's num...
Emotional safety is the foundation of everything else. When children feel emotionally safe, they're more likely to be open with you, to handle challen...
Trying to limit screens by repeatedly saying no is exhausting and mostly does not work. The home itself decides most of it. If a tablet is on the coff...
A toddler with a runny nose every day of the year, eczema that won't quite settle, or recurrent night cough that gets blamed on "another bug" may have...
The connection most parents are reaching for tends to be confused with quality time set aside for it. In practice, some of the strongest bonding happe...
Households with young children are messier than households without them. This isn't a management problem to be solved—it's a feature of the environmen...
Research on heterosexual couples by sociologist Allison Daminger found that even when partners divide physical household tasks relatively equally, wom...
Research on sibling relationships finds that siblings between the ages of two and four have a conflict roughly every 17 minutes on average. That numbe...
When household tasks are managed entirely by adults, children miss something important: the experience of being genuinely useful. Not praised for bein...
One of the more common frustrations in early parenting is asking a three-year-old to "tidy your room" and getting chaos or tears in return. The proble...
"They were too young to understand" is one of the more common things parents say after an argument in front of a baby. The research is unambiguous on...
You don't need a Pinterest playroom or hundreds of pounds of wooden Montessori equipment to raise a curious child. The home environments that consiste...