Kindred Media - Sharing the New Story of the Human Family

I’m a fervent fan of psychology’s so-called “Obedience Studies.” You know the ones – Stanley Milgram instructing experimental subjects to supposedly deliver 450…

A baby's birth day is the most dangerous day of life—in the United States and almost every country in the world—according Save the Children's State of the…

This is not a post about natural birth. Just keep reading. When I was preparing to give birth, I saw it as a once-in-a-lifetime event and something I wanted,…

https://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…

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…