Childhood obesity rates in the U.S. rose from around 21% pre-pandemic to nearly 23% during the global health crisis, ...

A new study finds that school reopenings during the pandemic were associated with declines in diagnoses of anxiety, ...

At first, it was supposed to last just a few weeks. Mayors and superintendents around the country announced schools would shut temporarily to halt the spread of a deadly virus that had officially been ...

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. While older children are showing encouraging signs of academic recovery, younger children are not making that same progress, and are sometimes ...

Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic was linked with significantly lower rates of mental health diagnoses among ...

Kids, listen up! Are you looking for something that's totally out of this world while you're home from school? Here's your opportunity to watch astronauts reading stories from space. Astronauts on ...

The COVID-19 pandemic turned kids’ lives upside down — and parents aren’t ready to forgive the school officials, politicians, and members of the media who allowed unscientific school closures to drag ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has ensured that holiday gatherings will look a lot different for many this year, and for some parents, it might be difficult to explain why to their children. Children's mental ...

As the new coronavirus pandemic continues to take hold of the United States, more and more families find themselves in quarantine and isolation. For children, this situation can be scary at worst and ...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parents are drinking more at home and in front of their kids due to the COVID-19 pandemic – and some are even allowing kids to drink, too. These striking findings are ...

‘The kids everyone forgot’: The faltering post-pandemic push to reengage teens and young adults not in school, college, or the workforce Lucian O’Donnell sat curled up in the lower bunk in a friend’s ...

The number of U.S. grandparents living with and caring for grandchildren declined in the first part of the 2020s compared to the late 2010s, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released on Thursday.