Play All Day
There is so much laughter here. This whole day just felt like play. These are the opening lines of a journal entry I wrote on the first night of a week-long…
Browsing Tag
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Educate Yourself About Breastfeeding’s Importance
August is Breastfeeding Month in the USA but because of its vast importance for lifelong health and wellbeing, we should pay attention to supporting…
Science-as-Wisdom Versus Science-as-Manipulation
Economist E.F. Schumacher pointed out how science shifted from a focus on wisdom to a focus on manipulation, playing a role in developing the world crises we…
The Dominant Culture’s Two Experiments Destroying Us
Recent generations of humans in societies like the USA have inadvertently been conducting two vast experiments. The results are coming in.
The first…
Why Adults Spank Kids & the Alternatives
Key points
Too many adults misunderstand child development, leading to unrealistic expectations.
Children learn in different ways at different ages—they…
Sleep Training Harms Babies
In our monthly open discussion hour recently at NestedWorld.org, distress over widespread baby sleep training was expressed. Sleep training of babies is…
Applied Connection Practices within the Evolved Nest: With Jon Young and…
The Nesting Ambassador Program is currently accepting applications for the Fall 2026 Cohort. Visit www.NestedWorld.org for more information and to submit an…
How Children Learn Respect for Others
The most common belief in Western societies is that children need to learn respect by following the directives of their parents and other adults. It is presumed…
AI is the Left-Brain’s Utopia
As noted in multiple earlier posts, we’ve been somewhat blindly undernurturing half our brains, leading to a diminished understanding of intelligence.…
Bringing the Evolved Nest to Schooling
Most children are required to attend school, but if you haven’t noticed, it historically moves against species-normal evolved nest principles. There is:…