Children

Depression very early in life can affect the way a child’s brain develops.A new study by researchers at Washington University is the first to link early…

Children learn differently than adults—there’s no studying, no note-taking, and not a lot of deep reasoning. There’s mostly just play.With that in mind,…

“We need to do something different.” That was S. Wary Clay's message to parents during a presentation Thursday of the 2015 Kids Count report at the Lessie…

A new program aimed at promoting early childhood literacy is giving free books to newborns, starting in January.Through its "Born to Read" program, St.…

About 12,300 fewer children attended federally subsidized day cares in Missouri during fiscal year 2013 than in 2012. That marks the largest decline in…

Images from Ferguson are everywhere.It’s difficult to avoid news of Michael Brown’s death and the community response. And with students returning to…

Saint Louis County is seeing an unusual spike in a bacterial disease that affects children in daycare centers.The county has received 71 reports of…

Thirty-four children died in the state of Missouri in 2012 due to child abuse and neglect. Seven of them were in St. Louis. All told, more than 13,000…

NPR has embarked on a project to compile a database that doesn't exist yet - a list of all of the accessible playgrounds in the United States. And they're…

Updated at 5:30 p.m. to adjust y-axis units on graph and to add second map.It's not a big change, but it's at least in the right direction.According to a…