Westend61/Getty Images It’s only natural for little ones to want to explore every curiosity they come across on the trail — and no secret that kids love to stack anything they can get their hands on. Seems harmless enough, right? Not quite. At first glance, allowing your kids to make stacked stones while hiking as a...
TikTok When it comes to raising my children, I don’t know what I would have done without my mother’s advice. She was the veteran parent of four kids — some of us easier to raise than others — and it felt like there was nothing she didn’t know. Even in instances where her advice ultimately...
Phynart Studio/Getty Images Between growing unrest about rising prices and headlines about the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs, feeling extra anxious right now is understandable. For those of us who are parents already toeing the line every month between making ends meet and, well, not, panic seems like the appropriate response. Should we be buying socks...
Halfpoint Images/Moment/Getty Images In 2023, NBC News released a tragic report that infant loungers — pillows intended for infants to rest on under parental supervision — were associated with 21 infant deaths from December 2015 to September 2021. Further investigation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) — which had been aware of issues with...