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by BabyCenter Guest Blogger posted in Life & Home By: Wes Bender, Safe Kids Worldwide Are expensive car seats better? This is a great question, and a legitimate one.  We as a society tend to believe that as the cost increases, so does the quality and performance of the products we’re purchasing. Let’s start by [...]

Our mini marathoner! Last year, Cullen was only ten days old on Halloween.  He wore a little pumpkin hat, and I turned our front porch light off because I didn’t feel like dealing with trick or treaters and a newborn.  This year is totally different.  Cullen is still too young to really get into the [...]

My husband and I sit at a boardroom table and wait for the lawyer. Our son is at preschool and the baby sleeps beside me in her car seat. We sip coffee as a paralegal prepares pens and paperwork. We’re quiet, both checking our phones, waiting to get underway. I think about my kids. They [...]

by Carolyn Robertson posted in Mom Stories It happened last week on the morning rush to school: A screech of tires, a dull, dreaded thump. A young girl, darting across the street on her way to our local elementary school, struck by a car. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Thankfully she was okay. Parents rushed [...]

There is some kind of weather freak-out bearing down on the East coast, which means if you haven’t gone out to fight to the death over the last two loaves of bread, your whole family is going to be reduced to some kind of Hunger Games spin-off. Because obviously, there will never be milk and [...]

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) almost 3 million grandparents are the primary caregivers to their grandchildren and yet many of them are not up-to-date on basic, current safety recommendations when it comes to things like infant sleep and car seat positioning.   A small study, presented at the AAP conference on ...

by Betsy Shaw posted in Mom Stories In a news story that stretches beyond comprehension, a parent’s worst nightmare has been revealed. Marina Krim, mother of three children under six, came home to her Upper West Side apartment in New York City at dinnertime last night to discover two of her children, Lucia, age 6, [...]

by Betsy Shaw posted in Mom Stories In a news story that stretches beyond comprehension, a parent’s worst nightmare has been revealed. Marina Krim, mother of three children under six, came home to her Upper West Side apartment in New York City at dinnertime last night to discover two of her children, Lucia, age 6, [...]

Lucia and Leo Krim There are some parenting stories that you never want to report, or even hear about. Last night while I was engrossed in homework help, the news switched from the wild upcoming weather to a news story that was unfolding. Two children were reportedly found stabbed in a posh apartment on Manhattan’s [...]

by BabyCenter Guest Blogger posted in Life & Home By: Wes Bender, Safe Kids Worldwide Working in the arena of child passenger safety, I see a lot of confusion on the issue of LATCH (Lower Anchors & Tethers for Children) vs. seat belts.  LATCH was introduced in 2002 as a way of making car seat [...]