Kindred Media - Sharing the New Story of the Human Family

This was published in Kindred Issue 28 as part of a larger feature, Cotton thread count Don’t throw away those old clothes yet!…

See also Second wind: breathing new life into old clothes, published in same issue. Despite the fact that cotton is a natural fibre,…

1 Remember that children have limits. If you are shopping with children, be alert to their needs: are they tired, hungry,…

The longest wars of history did see their flags of white. Ours will not be different. The smell of cordite will drift away and the dust will settle. The ones…

As a midwife I have reflected on why I feel sad when I hear of, see and care for women who have elected, when there is no clinical indication, to have a…

How folktales nourish the soul One day Baba Yaga’s two trusted toads said, ‘You are truly…

Watch Jean Liedloff talk with Michael Mendizza, of Touch the Future, about her adventures into the South American rainforests as a young woman and what she…

We pay almost anyone to look after infants — except their mothers. Evidence that good mothering matters, both for the…

I first took my son on an airplane when he was barely four months old. I remember having just said goodbye to my husband and feeling awfully scared:…

See also Big Boys Don't Cry The last time I cried was at the sheer beauty of the love welling up inside of me, in the deep…