Conscious Parenting

This morning, I heard an interview with a journalist who advocated for mothers who used drugs during pregnancy but who later gave up their addictions to parent…

The crone’s wisdom arises out of the ashes of society’s disintegration. We stand for the continuity of life. Our memories go back into ancient times, and our…

The USA is being turned upside by ideologues who are not interested in negotiation or compromise but only obedience to their mental models. The nested pathway…

Please join our Kindred community in recognizing and celebrating of the life of Colwyn Trevarthen, Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology…

What can we learn from deep nestedness? Our species-typical existence was one of deep nestedness. Deep nestedness has three elements: (1) ongoing communal…

I hear regularly from parents who are conflicted by the advice they get from family members to let babies cry, that parents should ignore their instincts to…

“Virtually all aspects of how modern people function and rest are radically different from those of our ancestors.” (Kahn et al., 2020) Agreed! The focus of…

“I want to have kids someday, but I’m scared— it’s just too much responsibility.” “Have kids? And risk messing up another human being for life? No…

Our 6-minute film, Breaking the Cycle, gives the overview of how the dominant culture lost its way. We are in a cycle of competitive detachment, an unnested…

For nearly all of human species existence across the world, child raising was rooted in the maternal gift economy as denoted by the evolved nest. Basic needs…