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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026534 stories
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk↗ theconversation.com · HN · 59 comments · 299 points · Aug 18, 2026
Retro-Tech Parenting↗ havenweb.org · HN · 245 comments · 353 points · Jun 04, 2026
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard↗ stevemagness.substack.com · HN · 608 comments · 550 points · May 25, 2026
Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria↗ nature.com · HN · 319 comments · 388 points · May 07, 2026
Parental controls aren't for parents↗ beasthacker.com · HN · 456 comments · 451 points · Jan 02, 2026
2025724 stories
Where do the children play?↗ unpublishablepapers.substack.com · HN · 256 comments · 409 points · Nov 16, 2025
I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens↗ sethpurcell.com · HN · 392 comments · 1185 points · Sep 10, 2025
New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care↗ governor.state.nm.us · HN · 661 comments · 790 points · Sep 09, 2025
How to win an argument with a toddler↗ seths.blog · HN · 520 comments · 728 points · Apr 15, 2025
Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids↗ desunit.com · HN · 408 comments · 542 points · Feb 13, 2025
2024730 stories
Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 160 comments · 321 points · Sep 19, 2024
Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood↗ afterbabel.com · HN · 453 comments · 405 points · Jun 10, 2024
Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play↗ afterbabel.com · HN · 440 comments · 407 points · Feb 28, 2024
Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?↗ cbc.ca · HN · 1228 comments · 379 points · Feb 12, 2024
Losing my son↗ fortressofdoors.com · HN · 396 comments · 2437 points · Jan 18, 2024
2023806 stories
One man saved a generation of premature babies (2016)↗ bbc.com · HN · 13 comments · 74 points · Dec 29, 2023
Woman pregnant in each of her two uteruses gives birth to twins↗ cnn.com · HN · 33 comments · 53 points · Dec 25, 2023
Kids with chattier parents are more talkative, may have bigger vocabulary↗ science.org · HN · 58 comments · 73 points · Dec 22, 2023
In the long run, we're all Dad↗ astralcodexten.com · HN · 157 comments · 282 points · Dec 22, 2023
Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health↗ jonathanhaidt.substack.com · HN · 33 comments · 61 points · May 15, 2023
2022752 stories
75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12↗ 1000hoursoutside.com · HN · 461 comments · 617 points · Oct 18, 2022
I was forced to be a child star. It was never my dream or my idea↗ wilwheaton.net · HN · 340 comments · 483 points · May 26, 2022
A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV↗ npr.org · HN · 534 comments · 434 points · Apr 20, 2022
Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study↗ today.duke.edu · HN · 481 comments · 473 points · Mar 08, 2022
The data are clear: The boys are not all right↗ washingtonpost.com · HN · 1154 comments · 574 points · Feb 09, 2022
2021592 stories
Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child↗ twitter.com · HN · 534 comments · 644 points · Dec 28, 2021
Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (2018)↗ theatlantic.com · HN · 162 comments · 552 points · Sep 21, 2021
Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders↗ inews.co.uk · HN · 78 comments · 414 points · Aug 13, 2021
A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement↗ theatlantic.com · HN · 665 comments · 412 points · Jul 14, 2021
Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons↗ economist.com · HN · 600 comments · 480 points · Feb 06, 2021
2020547 stories
Car seats as contraception↗ privpapers.ssrn.com · HN · 329 comments · 377 points · Oct 01, 2020
Young children would rather explore than get rewards↗ news.osu.edu · HN · 237 comments · 698 points · Aug 13, 2020
The global fertility rate is falling↗ bbc.com · HN · 820 comments · 485 points · Jul 15, 2020
Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums↗ bbc.com · HN · 587 comments · 683 points · Feb 05, 2020
The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development↗ americanaffairsjournal.org · HN · 283 comments · 323 points · Jan 16, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond↗ reason.com · HN · 292 comments · 287 points · Sep 03, 2026
Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now↗ autism.org.uk · HN · 116 comments · 100 points · Sep 16, 2026
I built my daughter a custom alarm clock because everything on Amazon sucked↗ reclaimtheday.substack.com · HN · 16 comments · 40 points · Sep 26, 2026
Fertility rate dropped over 50% within 10 years in Argentina↗ twitter.com · HN · 44 comments · 45 points · Sep 23, 2026
Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care↗ nber.org · HN · 150 comments · 99 points · Sep 09, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond↗ reason.com · HN · 292 comments · 287 points · Sep 03, 2026
Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now↗ autism.org.uk · HN · 116 comments · 100 points · Sep 16, 2026
Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care↗ nber.org · HN · 150 comments · 99 points · Sep 09, 2026
Fertility rate dropped over 50% within 10 years in Argentina↗ twitter.com · HN · 44 comments · 45 points · Sep 23, 2026
I built my daughter a custom alarm clock because everything on Amazon sucked↗ reclaimtheday.substack.com · HN · 16 comments · 40 points · Sep 26, 2026
An overview of how our family is prepared↗ michaelharley.net · HN · 76 comments · 33 points · Sep 08, 2026
Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia↗ washingtonpost.com · HN · 21 comments · 26 points · Sep 07, 2026
Kidnapping kids remains legal in USA, this site has you experience it first-hand (2018)↗ elan.school · HN · 9 comments · 24 points · Sep 27, 2026
Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents↗ upworthy.com · HN · 7 comments · 24 points · Sep 08, 2026
When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering↗ theatlantic.com · HN · 11 comments · 21 points · Sep 08, 2026

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