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Conscious Parenting
Never Doubt the Power of Your Advocacy
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…
Political Disruption and the Evolution of Crone Consciousness
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…
Rigid Adults Take Control: What Happened?
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…
Honoring the Life of Colywn Trevarthen
Please join our Kindred community in recognizing and celebrating of the life of Colwyn Trevarthen, Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology…
How Deep Nested Communities Foster Cooperative Companionship instead of…
What can we learn from deep nestedness?
Our species-typical existence was one of deep nestedness. Deep nestedness has three elements:
(1) ongoing communal…
Can You “Spoil” a Baby?
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…
Sleep Problems? Open Mouth Breathing? Crooked Teeth?
“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…
How New Mothers Are Bringing The Evolved Nest To Life Through Virtual…
“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…
Moral Shrinkage: How did we fall so far?
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…
Reimagining Our Humanity
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…