Category Parenting

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More Than Half of Working…

Sep 2, 20264 min read

52% of working parents say their job makes it harder to be…

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Pediatricians Just Changed the Rules…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

The American Academy of Pediatrics has quietly dropped the number that shaped…

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Families Are Spending a Record…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

Families with kids in K-12 are on pace to spend a record…

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Raising One Child Now Costs…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

Raising a single child costs more than $43,000 a year in San…

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Parents Are Getting Two Different…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

Parents dropping kids off for back-to-school physicals this year are running into…

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One in Five Families Now…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

One in five American families paying for child care now spends more…

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Firstborn Kids Carry Higher Autism…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

A study spanning 10.3 million children with at least one sibling has…

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198 Kids Have Died in…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

Over a full decade, from 2013 through 2022, 198 children age 18…

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Toddler Needed Emergency Surgery After…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

A child needed emergency surgery to remove roughly 50 swallowed magnets and…

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165,000 More Walmart Dressers Are…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

Walmart and federal regulators are re-warning shoppers about 165,250 additional Mainstays nine-drawer…

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Madison Cates

Mom, Wife, Minimalist.

Join me in my journey to declutter my life and live a simply beautiful life.

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