Kindred Media - Sharing the New Story of Childhood, Parenthood, and the Human Family

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=am6eRi9lOt8 “The father wound is so deep and so all-pervasive in so many parts of the world that its…

There’s nothing natty about natto.  This old-fashioned soy product is made from whole soybeans that have been soaked, boiled or steamed, and then fermented.   …

I hate to admit this, but I’ve come to feel entitled to breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day (complete with gifts and a clean kitchen afterwards), a family hike (no…

I feel a bit like the child in Hans Christian Anderson’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, who cried out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!”  I imagine that some…

What’s a grandparent to do? Marti Erickson makes a practice of keeping two collapsible chairs in her car trunk. If she’s having a particularly stressful day,…

Sometimes people will come up to me and tell me right to my face that they think I’m one of the most generous people they know. I’m always surprised and more…

While the big media “meat” of last year, pink slime, a filler in ground beef, got some extreme press exposure, there’s another additive present in meat – and…

“The Thinking Moms’ Revolution is in the grand tradition of Rachel Carson. It is the Silent Spring of this generation. If you are a parent of a…

The bill has some teeth. The question is whether it has legs. Action Alerts! The Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act was introduced last…

I think it’s true to say that by the time our children leave home, we’d love to think that a few nuggets of our hard-won wisdom will go with them as they set…