It can happen to the best parents in the world. You turn your head for a second and your baby or toddler grabs your cup of coffee or something even hotter. While your first thought may be to panic, you’d be much better off taking a few steps to help reduce the heat. But what’s next? Check out these steps to treating a child’s burn.

If you’ve been shopping at IKEA, you’ll want to listen up: the company is recalling its ANTILOP high chairs.  Apparently, the buckle is capable of opening unexpectedly, and the retailer has had eight complaints from around the world so far. Check out The Stir to learn more about what you should do if you own one of the IKEA ANTILOP high chairs that have been recalled.

If you have a toddler, you know they are into everything. Fingers slide easily into electrical sockets and heads are constantly bumping into hard, wood furniture.  If your child is just becoming mobile and you’re scratching your head as to how you are going to prevent them from getting hurt, check out these ten childproofing must-haves from The Weather Channel.

If your family loves the outdoors but not this cold weather, here’s a fun idea you can try: build a campfire.  You can sit around it, stay warm, enjoy some outside time with your kids, tell stories, roast hot dogs and so much more. Just remember to be safe!

Wal-Mart and several other retailers are pulling formula off their shelves after a Missouri infant died from a rare bacterial The12.5-ounce cans of Enfamil Newborn haven’t been fully tested by federal officials, but the stores say they are removing the formula as a precaution.

If your baby has an IKEA high chair, you will need to listen up. In the United States and Canada, the retailer is recalling 160,000 high chairs. According to IKEA, the safety belts could result in injury.  The $20 high chairs are made of red, white, and blue plastic and were sold from August 2006 to January 2010.

If you and your kids visited the Build-a-Bear store recently, you need to listen up: the company is recalling 300,000 stuffed bears.   The Colorful Heart Teddy Bears are said to pose a choking hazard.  For more details on the risk and what you should do if you own one, check out Build-A-Bear Recalls 300,000 Stuffed Bears.

One of your worst nightmares is probably that your toddler will get into something they shouldn’t. Often, medication looks or tastes like candy and can be quite appealing to little ones who get their hands on it.  While we all do what we can to keep this from happening, over 60,000 children are seen in emergency rooms for accidental overdoses every year. What can you do to keep your child from adding to that number? Start by reading these six tips to keep medication safe from toddlers.

The holiday season is here, which means many families will find themselves in the kitchen baking cookies and other yummy treats.  And while it’s tempting to lick that spoon or bowl, it’s best to avoid ingesting any raw cookie dough due to the potential for E Coli.  You wouldn’t want to spend the holidays in the hospital would you?

As a parent, you probably worry about house hold chemicals quite a bit. How and where should you store them? Which ones aren’t safe for kids and which ones do you need to have around the house? Luckily, WebMD has put together an article with everything you need to know about household chemicals.

Every year, people bring out their Poinsettias for the holidays, but parents are often worried whether the beautiful flowers associated with Christmas are poisonous for their children. So, are they?  WebMD answers the question: is a poinsettia really poisonous?

Ocean Spray’s Craisins are quite popular with families, but unfortunately, the company has issued a recall of the snack. The reason is that the bags potentially contain small pieces of metal. Be sure to check whether your bag of Ocean Spray Craisins is part of the recall.

Winter is just around the corner, which means temperatures will be dropping and parents will need to be more mindful of kids playing outside. One big danger that many kids face during the winter months is frostbite. As a parent, are y0u properly prepared to protect your child from the cold? Find out in this quiz about kids and frostbite.

Are you planning on getting acupuncture for your kids? If so, you’ll be happy to know that researchers from the University of Alberta in Edmonton have deemed the practice to be safe for people under the age of 18, but they do say more extensive research is needed.

When you buy a toy for your child, you probably assume what’s on the store shelves is safe, right?  Well, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, there are toys out there that cause everything from hearing damage to lead poisoning, and they’ve put together a list of those potentially dangerous toys.