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The House of Representatives passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act on June 29 by a vote of 267 to 117, the biggest step Congress has taken on children’s online safety in nearly three decades. The package would rewrite the rules for how platforms treat users under 18: new parental controls, restrictions on the […]

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

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

A major annual checkup on how American kids are doing landed this month, and the results are sobering. The 2026 KIDS COUNT Data Book, released June 8 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, finds that child well-being has slipped in 29 states since 2019, with the country’s overall score dropping for the first time under