Jarrod Partridge

School lets out, the routine disappears, and the screens fill the gap. A new report on kids and technology puts a number on what most parents already sense: children pick up more than four extra hours of device time a week once summer starts, close to 30 percent more than during the school year. The

The generation raised on time-outs and “because I said so” is now raising kids of its own, and many of them want a clean break from how they grew up. A new survey of 2,000 parents of children ages 0 to 6 found that Gen Z parents are leaning toward “cycle-breaking” over the gentle parenting

If you have bought baby gear or kids’ shoes online lately, the last week of June brought a string of recalls worth a few minutes of your time. Federal regulators flagged a run of children’s products, from light up sneakers with hidden batteries to baby oil in the wrong kind of bottle, several of them

Most parents would swear they treat their kids the same. A new study suggests the truth is more interesting than that. Researchers found that mothers and fathers do not simply pour more into sons or into daughters across the board. Instead, they tend to give each child a different mix of support, often without realizing

If you bought a soft, pull-string teething toy on Amazon for your baby, this is worth two minutes of your attention right now. Over the past few weeks, U.S. safety regulators have announced a string of recalls covering several brands of pull-string teething toys, all for the same dangerous defect: silicone strings that can reach

A small school district in eastern Kentucky has done something more than 1,300 other districts have only attempted: it got four of the biggest social media companies in the world to pay up. Newly surfaced settlement records show that Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube agreed to pay a combined 27 million dollars to Breathitt County

If your child has a pair of one-piece pajamas bought from SHEIN, check the label tonight. On June 18, 2026, SHEIN Distribution Corporation recalled its Michley children’s pajamas because they fail the federal flammability standard for children’s sleepwear, creating a risk of serious burn injuries or even death. The recalled one-piece pajamas were sold online

If you use a Joolz Aer2 stroller with an infant car seat, stop and check your adapters before your next outing. On June 18, 2026, Joolz recalled about 3,840 of its Aer2 car seat adapter sets in the United States, along with roughly 148 more in Canada, because the adapters can fail to attach properly

For decades, parenting programs have been one of the most trusted tools in child psychology. If your young child was hitting, defiant, or having frequent meltdowns, a structured program could teach you techniques that, study after study showed, reliably calmed the behavior. So a new finding has caught researchers’ attention: those same programs appear to

Your child may be talking to an AI that tells them it loves them, remembers their secrets, and asks how they are feeling when they have not opened up to anyone else. Millions of kids already are. New York just became one of the first states to say that has to stop. In the final