Editorial standards
ParentSide publishes practical parenting information, not medical advice. This page sets out where that information comes from, what ParentSide will and will not state, and how content is corrected and updated.
Purpose
ParentSide gives parents information and tools that are useful day to day: content explaining what happens in a stage, age-appropriate activities, recipes, baby-name data, and access to expert services when they are needed.
Source hierarchy
Health-related content may cite only an approved source registry. That registry is made up of pages published by official public-health institutions and recognised health authorities, and holds 49 sources today. For a source to enter it, the authority must be on the approved list and the address must be on that institution's own official domain — a mirror, a re-publication or a news summary is not accepted.
The authorities currently cited, most-cited first:
- NHS — 25 sources
- CDC — 11 sources
- T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı — 6 sources
- AAP — 3 sources
- Better Health Channel — 1 sources
- FSA — 1 sources
- GOV.UK — 1 sources
- USDA — 1 sources
The list is not closed. When a new content area needs a new authority, the authority and its domain are approved first and sources are added afterwards. The order reflects how heavily each is currently used, not a ranking of trustworthiness.
Content boundary
ParentSide separates two kinds of information. Practical parenting information — what a baby typically does at a given stage, how sleep changes, when and in what texture a food can be offered, what to do with a child at home — is ParentSide's own territory.
Clinical assessment is not. ParentSide does not diagnose, does not recommend treatment or medication, does not give dosages, does not present one possible explanation of a symptom as the explanation, and does not classify a child's development as normal or abnormal. Developmental milestones are used for monitoring, never as a screening or diagnostic instrument.
Where a situation may need professional assessment, ParentSide says to speak to a health professional and shows the official source it is relying on, rather than telling a parent what to do.
How sources are shown
Source-backed content shows what it rests on in a readable form: the name of the institution and the page's own title, linked directly to that page. Bare URLs and "click here" links are not used.
Any statement carrying a number is linked to the source that actually gives that number, and is written so it does not say more than the source says. A source is never placed beside a sentence it does not support.
Statistical data is a separate matter and is handled separately: baby-name popularity rests on official TÜİK birth registrations and has its own methodology page.
Updates
Content is reviewed and updated when the source it rests on changes, when an official guideline or schedule is updated, when the product itself changes, or when an error is reported.
Expert review
Where a page has been reviewed by an expert, it says so on that page, with the name of the person who reviewed it and the date. Where no reviewer is shown, no such review has taken place for that page.
Corrections
Material factual errors are corrected when they are identified. If you have found an error of fact or of sourcing, you can write to kvkk@parentside.app — the ParentSide contact address also published in the privacy notice.