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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

Ask people what makes a good father and many will still say the same thing: a provider, a breadwinner, the one who pays the bills. So researchers who interviewed more than 5,000 fathers around the world expected to hear plenty about stress and sacrifice. What they did not expect was the finding that landed hardest.

Jo Frost, the British parenting expert millions of families know as Supernanny, has set off a fresh debate with a viral message to modern parents: stop doing so much for your kids. In an Instagram video that spread widely and a follow up appearance on Fox and Friends, Frost argued that a growing number of

Here is a finding that runs against years of conventional wisdom about busy, enriched childhoods. When researchers asked American kids what they actually want to do, nearly half said they would rather play with friends in ways adults do not organize at all. No coach, no schedule, no sign-up sheet. Just kids and time. As

When students across Virginia walk back into class this fall, one familiar object will be missing from their hands all day long. Starting July 1, 2026, a new state law requires every public school in Virginia to keep student cell phones put away from the first bell to the last, including during lunch and the