Two Rivers Of Fatherhood
Photo: Kathy Frederick Louv, Nick Raven, Matthew Louv, Isabel Raven, Jason Louv
People like to talk about traditional fatherhood. Which tradition?
I first…
The War Against Parents – A Book Review
Caring, nurturing, cherishing--the essential components of good parenting--have less and less support in our society... In the late 1990s, America's children…
Why Babies Need Dads Too
The brain is shaped by early experience, specifically, the mothering (nurturing responsive care) we receive from mothers and fathers.
Fathers and mothers and…
Education Reform and Alternative Education Resources
Kindred's Articles on Education
Alliance for Self-Directed Education. Imagine what would happen if, instead of sending children to coercive schools where their…
Flawed Sleep-Training Study Makes Invalid Claims In the News
A flawed Australian study recently made national news. The researchers made extreme and exaggerated claims regarding infants. The researchers claimed two…
Quiet Or Scattered?
Traveling with Carly Elizabeth, 22 months today, has been a rich adventure for her and for me. Neither she nor I speak the language. People all around are…
THE SCHOOL OF NATURE: Greening Our Schools May Be The Real Cutting Edge…
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…
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
In this classic TED Talk from 2006, creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of…
Zika And The Mentality Of Control
The ruling institutions of this world are quite comfortable with a virus.
First with SARS, then H1N1, then ebola and now the Zika virus, mainstream media and…
Parenting As A Spiritual Practice – A TED Talk
Integral Spotlight: Parenting as a Spiritual Practice | Miriam Mason Martineau from Integral Life on Vimeo.
Being the very best parent you can possibly be:…