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Prenatal Exposure To Toxins: An Educational Video For New Parents

Jul 9, 2018 Kindred Media and Community

How and where we live, work, play and socialize influence our physical and mental health every day throughout our lives. Healthy natural and built environments, good nutrition, regular exercise, positive social interaction, stress reduction and avoidance of toxic exposures can help create the conditions for health across the lifespan. Young…

Conscious Parenting

What Is Self-Directed Education?

May 11, 2017 Kindred Media and Community

Imagine what would happen if, instead of sending children to coercive schools where their natural ways of learning are curtailed, we provided them with the resources that would allow their curiosity, playfulness, and other natural ways of learning to flourish. That is Self-Directed Education (SDE); education that derives from the…

Education

Education Reform and Alternative Education Resources

Jun 12, 2016 Kindred Media and Community

Kindred's Articles on Education Kindred's Bookstore Selections on Education Reform Alliance for Self-Directed Education. Imagine what would happen if, instead of sending children to coercive schools where their natural ways of learning are curtailed, we provided them with the resources that would allow their curiosity, playfulness, and other natural ways of…

Child development

THE SCHOOL OF NATURE: Greening Our Schools May Be The Real Cutting Edge of Education

Jun 4, 2016 Richard Louv

Outside Atlanta, after returning from a class hike through the woods, an excited six-year-old grabbed his head and said, “There’s so much nature and I only have two eyes and one brain and I think it's going to explode!” A teacher at the nature-based Chattahoochee Hills Charter School shared that story about her student with me a couple weeks…

Books

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education

Oct 1, 2015 Meryn Callander

JOIN MERYN CALLANDER ON A PARENTING AS A HERO’S JOURNEY VIRTUAL RETREAT! Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education A Book Review By Meryn Callander In the early nineties John Taylor Gatto resigned from 26 years of award-winning teaching in Manhattan's public schools. There he had used…

Press Room

Kindred Partners With The Alliance For Parent Education In Africa

Dec 12, 2014 Kindred Media and Community

Kindred Parent Liberation Alliance is proud to announce an international exchange and partnership with the Alliance for Parent Education in Africa. The alliance and its educational programs are based on the Kindred Parent Liberation Project, created by social justice and conscious parenting advocate, Teresa Graham Brett, JD. Read APEA's full…

Culture

Are Schools Prisons? Is “Dangerous” Play the Key to Education Reform? An Interview with Evolutionary Psychologist, Peter Gray

Aug 28, 2013 Peter Gray, PhD

Listen to Kindred's editor, Lisa Reagan, talk with Peter Gray, PhD, about the revolutionary insights in his new book, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. Free Download. "I mean, we can’t have a happy…

Vaccinations

National Billboard Campaign for Vaccine Education Launched

Mar 13, 2013 Kindred Media and Community

During March and April 2013, the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC.org) is conducting an educational billboard campaign in Arizona, Illinois, Oregon, Washington and Texas to encourage well informed vaccine decision-making. The NVIC billboard features a photo of a mother and child and asks “Vaccination? Know the risks and…

Culture

Changing Education Paradigms

Dec 23, 2011 Sir Ken Robinson

Changing Education Paradigms: An RSA Animate For national resources on education reform go here. For our extensive bookstore on education reform, go here. This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.…

Who’s making these dumb decisions about education?

May 10, 2010 Kindred

Julia Gillard must have a bunch of faceless monkeys making the calls about her education revolution and I am worried about the profound lack of common sense and respect that she is paying to those who work at the coalface. Everyone wants the best for their children however every child…

A Brighter Shade of Green – Rethinking environmental education

Jan 18, 2010 Ian Cleary

Picture a swimming lesson where the class begins with a video of the dangers of drowning and shark attacks. Next up is home economics where the teacher focuses on the risk of salmonella, knife accidents and burns from spilt hot liquids. Then just before lunch there is religious education about…

Children are Changing, but Education Hasn’t

Dec 14, 2009 Kindred

There was a very interesting article in the Weekend Australian 15-16th August that I want to share with you. It was written by Frank Furedi a professor of sociology at the University of Kent in England. It’s based on his book “Wasted: Why Education is not Educating.” He is a…