About us

After becoming parents - bringing this precious life into the world - we found ourselves paralyzed by fear. My wife had just sacrificed many parts of her life (body, career, alcohol, caffeine!) to create a new life. And now that it was in the world, we were anxious every moment of every day. We couldn’t let go. We wanted our baby to stay perfect forever.

We alleviated this anxiety with non-stop research, talking to other parents and experts to understand what risks were real (grabbing a hot cup of tea and getting 3rd degree burns) and which we shouldn’t stay up all night worrying about (majority of child abductions are done by family and acquaintance -not a stranger breaking into our house in the middle of the night).

Throughout our research we realized there was no solid resource - no single source of truth we could turn to to logically evaluate the risks facing our children. It was at this moment that Childhood risks was born.

With the launch of Childhood Risks™, we started working with the top childhood development hospitals and research universities to bring together a comprehensive library cataloging all of the risks facing children at each stage of development. This is updated in realtime as the latest research is published.

Our hope is that parents can alleviate their worry and sleep better at night knowing what to actually worry about rather than, you know, everything.

If we can bring peace and a sense of calm to any parents out there we’ll know we’ve done our part.