Kids

The American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines for managing childhood obesity, but the recommendations are a challenge for overwhelmed health systems.

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge yielded stories about how students around the U.S. are thinking about and responding to climate change. Here are some of their ideas.

The two major poultry producers after reports that migrant children as young as 13 have been working overnight shifts to clean the companies' plants.

Ben Rigden is only 8 years old, and is the founder and president of The Young Friends of the Burlington County Animal Shelter.

Experts point to the expanded child tax credit as key to this poverty yo-yo. When it ended, many lower-income families struggled to pay their bills or buy enough food.

Anna Maria DiDio hopes to help other families deal with the trauma of adoption by making the challenges easy to talk about.

A heat wave at the start of the school year has educators scrambling to keep kids cool and safe.

María Méndez is coordinator of Juntos Podemos, a new youth engagement effort from the longtime immigrant rights organization.

In his new book, “Dear,” Justin Kemp writes about minority teens facing mental health issues and opens up about his own struggles.

NAMI presenters visit eighth graders near Baltimore to have an honest conversation about mental health.

Under the new policy, students will be eligible to receive free services until they turn 22, rather than aging out of the program the summer after they turn 21.

To start the 5-year, NIH-funded study, researchers will collect feedback directly from students, something they say doesn’t usually happen.

Amid sweltering heat waves, classes have resumed in many districts around the country that have outdated heating and cooling systems — or no air conditioning at all.

The six children and two adults became trapped when a cable snapped while they were crossing a river canyon.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first vaccine for expectant mothers to shield their babies from RSV.