While stranger danger is real, family safety should include everyday steps that sometimes get lost in the day-to-day responsibilities of parenting.

John Rosemond, a North Carolina-based family psychologist and author of “The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline that Really Works!” said fixating on corporal punishment misses the point of effective parenting.

Child-care arrangements reflect the role of grandparents in the lives of their grandchildren. In 2005, 30 percent of children younger than 5 whose mothers worked were being cared for on a regular basis by a grandparent during their mother’s working hours.