Thirty Two Thousand Magnetic Wireless Power Banks Sold Exclusively at TJ Maxx and Marshalls Are Being Recalled Because Their Lithium Battery Can Overheat and Catch Fire While Charging

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About 32,400 XO Poppy Power Trip magnetic wireless power banks sold exclusively at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are being recalled because their lithium-ion battery can overheat and ignite while charging, according to a recall notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The compact chargers sold for around $15 apiece between April 2025 and March … Read more

Nearly a Quarter of Parents Say the App Their Teenager Checks Most Has Actively Hurt Their Mental Health, While Barely 8 Percent Think It Helped

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Parents and their teenagers are looking at the exact same phone and seeing two different problems. A Pew Research Center survey published in April 2026 found that 24 percent of parents say social media has hurt their teen’s mental health, while only 8 percent say it has helped. That’s a three-to-one gap in the negative … Read more

Families Are Being Told to Stop Using a 230 Dollar Stroller Sold Through Shein Right Away Because an Opening Near the Grab Bar Can Trap an Infant

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is telling families to stop using a $230 stroller sold through Shein.com right away, warning that an opening between the seat and the grab bar can trap an infant, a hazard the agency says violates the mandatory federal safety standard for strollers. The product is the B. Childhood High … Read more

Nineteen Percent of High Schoolers Say They Were Bullied at School Last Year, Up Sharply From Four Years Earlier, the CDC’s Latest Survey Shows

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Nineteen percent of U.S. high schoolers said they’d been bullied on school property in the past year, according to the CDC’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the most recent national data available. That’s a jump from 15% just two survey cycles earlier, in 2021, and it arrived alongside a parallel climb in how many students … Read more

Poison Control Centers Logged Over 52,000 Calls in a Single Year About Kids Swallowing Melatonin Gummies Meant for Sleep, and Two Toddlers Died

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A federal report tracking calls to U.S. poison control centers found that reported cases of children swallowing melatonin jumped 530 percent in less than a decade, climbing from 8,337 calls in 2012 to 52,563 calls in 2021. Over that ten-year window, poison control centers logged 260,435 total pediatric melatonin ingestions. Most of the children involved … Read more

Nearly 380 Children Under Fifteen Drowned in a Pool or Spa in a Single Recent Year, and Federal Regulators Say Four Out of Five Victims Were Under 5

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An average of 376 children under 15 drowned in a pool or spa every year between 2021 and 2023, and the number for 2023 alone, 379 deaths, was up 6 percent from the year before, according to a June 2026 report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Roughly four out of every five of … Read more

Nearly One in Five Kids and Teens in America Now Has Obesity, and New Federal Health Data Shows the Rate Climbs Even Higher by Elementary School

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Nearly one in five American kids and teens now has obesity, a rate the CDC puts at 19.7 percent among those ages 2 to 19, or about 14.7 million children nationwide. But the topline number hides how much that rate shifts as kids get older. Among 2-to-5-year-olds, the rate is 12.7 percent. By elementary and … Read more

Roughly 6,200 Baby Loungers Sold on Amazon for 35 Dollars Are Being Pulled From Nurseries After a Two Month Old Died Sleeping in One on an Adult Bed

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  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning parents to immediately stop using Fasando baby loungers after a two-month-old died while sleeping in one on an adult bed. Roughly 6,200 of the $35 loungers were sold on Amazon.com between August 2024 and July 2025, and the agency says the product never should have been … Read more

Booster Seats Stay Required Until a Child Hits Roughly Four Feet Nine Inches Tall, Federal Safety Data Shows, Which Most Kids Don’t Reach Until Age 8 to 12

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  A child isn’t ready to give up a booster seat just because they’ve hit a certain birthday. Federal and pediatric guidance both point to height, not age, as the real cutoff, and most kids don’t get there until well into elementary or middle school. The reminder arrives as NHTSA’s National Child Passenger Safety Week … Read more

Twenty Three Children Have Already Died of Heatstroke After Being Left or Trapped in a Hot Car This Year, Federal Transportation Data Shows

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  At least 23 children have died of vehicular heatstroke in the United States so far this year, according to a running count kept by Kids and Car Safety and referenced in NHTSA’s ongoing heatstroke-prevention campaign. Most of the deaths didn’t involve a car left running in a driveway while a caregiver stepped away for … Read more