Jarrod Partridge

The number moved in the wrong direction. Child drowning deaths in the United States climbed from 756 in 2019 to 865 in 2024, a reversal of two decades of progress, and the American Academy of Pediatrics has answered with its first updated drowning prevention guidance in seven years. The timing lands mid-summer for a reason.

The holiday weekend came with a side of recall notices this year. On July 2, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a wave of recalls aimed squarely at the baby aisle: loungers and swings that violate federal safe sleep standards, nursing pillows that can block an infant’s breathing, and tens of thousands of light-up toys

The summer that sticks in a child’s memory is rarely the expensive one. A post from a dad of seven, now circulating widely on social media, makes that case in a way that has parents rethinking their whole approach to the break. His point is plain: the best summer memories come from repeatable anchors, not

The most common nutritional shortfall in American children is one most parents never think to ask about. Iron deficiency affects roughly 15 percent of toddlers and about 11 percent of teen girls, and left unchecked it can dull a child’s energy, mood, and even learning. The American Academy of Pediatrics has now updated its guidance

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