In 2023, in an advisory entitled "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," former surgeon general Vivek Murthy wrote that "social disconnection was far more common than I had realized." And the ...

Young children get sick far more often than adults, and it is completely normal. Most healthy kids come down with about six viral illnesses a year—and preschoolers and early elementary-aged children ...

First-year student William Mount runs a nonprofit organization, Free2Talk, to subsidize the costs of mental health and speech therapy for Virginia youths.

Recently, I was talking to my two middle-school sons about the importance of listening the first time they're asked to do something, especially when it really matters. But before I got far, my oldest ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

In Albany Park, a group of mothers and educators recognized the need for assistance and initiated what they call the walking school bus. Chicago Tonight is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...