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Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My wife, “Lynn,” and I have a 4-year-old daughter, “Mackenzie.” Two weeks ago, Mackenzie’s goldfish died while she was at daycare. Lynn’s reaction has left me questioning things. To start, Lynn pulled our daughter out of daycare and brought her …

Around 850,000 years ago, a toddler was decapitated and cannibalized, cut marks on one of their neck bones suggest. The bone, which belonged to an archaic human relative, was found at the Gran Dolina cave at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain. An analysis of the bone indicates that the child was between 2 and 5 years old …

The number of young children sickened after getting their little hands on nicotine products like pouches and vape e-liquids has skyrocketed in recent years. From 2010 through 2023, U.S. poison centers reported 134,663 cases of nicotine poisonings among kids under age 6, according to a study published Monday in Pediatrics, a journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Nearly all …