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"Because the mothers in our study described infants with many awakenings per week as creating problems for themselves and other family…

Advice to ignore the needs of babies See co-author list below A world of “experts” and journalists tell parents about the safety of “controlled crying” or “cry…

Encourage baby’s more peaceful night’s sleep *See co-author list below “My baby is only happy in my arms, the minute I put her down she cries.” “She…

Note: First author is Elizabeth Ledden Doulas have been assisting childbirth since time immemorial. A doula is a support to the mother throughout the…

Don’t-Know-Mind, or Beginners Mind, is a Buddhist principle that helps remind us that clinging to certainty is a natural human tendency that can…

(Photo above of Rhea Zimmerman, left, filmmaker, and Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in September 2012.) Dear Kindred…

While coconut oil has dragged itself out of the muck of vast misrepresentation over the past few years, it still rarely gets the appreciation it truly…

Naming the Four Weeks of Advent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9zaV8KcZMA The Winter Festivals I am…

Martel's Thoughts About Parenting Teresa talks with her son, Martel, who decided he wanted to be physically present in a video and not just…

We are again stunned by a shocking tragedy. How can such a thing happen? The roots of today’s violence were sewn long ago. At the beginning,…