Injury prevention
13 articles
Why a Child Should Never Be Left Unattended on Furniture
A common injury scenario involves a baby left unattended on a bed, couch, or changing table for just a moment—and that moment is when they fall or rol...
Safe Storage of Knives and Cookware
Knives and heavy cookware are essential kitchen tools but pose serious injury risks to young children. Proper storage removes these hazards from the e...
Home Safety for a Newborn: Where to Start
Preparing your home for a newborn can feel overwhelming, but starting with the basics helps protect your little one from the most common hazards. Rath...
Furniture Tip-Overs: The Hazard That Kills More Children Than People Realise
A small child climbs an open drawer of a chest of drawers like a ladder. The chest tips. The child is pinned underneath; in the worst cases, with a TV...
Floor Hazards: Rugs That Slide, Cords That Trip, Tiles That Hurt
A surprising amount of household injury in mobile babies and toddlers comes from a small number of mundane floor problems. Rugs that ride up. Charger...
First Steps: The Six Months When a Toddler's Falls Get Bigger
There's a stretch of about six months in every toddler's life when the household injury rate genuinely spikes. It's the bit between "can stand if held...
Reducing Fall Risk Once a Baby Starts Moving
A crawling baby is going to fall, and a baby who's just starting to pull up will fall harder. That's not a failure of supervision — that's the develop...
How Children Fall — and What Changes Each Age
The fall a 3-month-old takes is fundamentally different from the fall a 2-year-old takes. The mechanism, the height, what they hit, and what's likely...
The Rooms and Spaces Most Dangerous to a Baby Under One
The danger map for a baby under one is different from a toddler's. Until they crawl, a baby goes wherever you put them — so the risk is concentrated i...
Setting Up a Safe Space for a Crawling Baby (Without Buying the Whole Aisle)
A baby starts crawling somewhere between six and ten months and immediately becomes a small, fast, low-altitude exploration drone. The job isn't to re...
Car Seat Mistakes: Where Parents Routinely Go Wrong (And How to Fix Each)
"My seat is fine, the shop installed it." It's the most common assumption parents bring into a car-seat clinic, and it's right just often enough to be...
Car Seats for Babies and Toddlers: Choosing, Fitting, and Using Them Properly
The technology of modern car seats works. Crashes that would once have been fatal for a child now produce no injury at all. The catch is that this is...
Toy Safety Checklist for Parents
Most toy-related injuries are preventable, and most prevention boils down to a few specific checks. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) sets...