Conscious Parenting

By Cameron Sprague and Daniel Burton This document introduces the philosophy, origins, and transformative purpose of the ‘Nested Nursery’ Award, a…

Introduction In nursing mothers, breast milk becomes available for feeding the baby through a physiological process called the let-down reflex, mediated by the…

As noted in multiple earlier posts, we’ve been somewhat blindly undernurturing half our brains, leading to a diminished understanding of intelligence.…

Most children are required to attend school, but if you haven’t noticed, it historically moves against species-normal evolved nest principles. There is:…

The challenges we see in classrooms today may begin long before children arrive at school, shaped by early development, caregiving, and the conditions of modern…

Does AI mimic human intelligence? Only if you are half-brained. If you have any sense of embodied wisdom, experiences of oceanic feeling of oneness with All,…

World renown anthropologist, Richard Lee (1979), recounted his experiences living with the !Kung, a San Bushmen hunter-gatherer group in the Kalahari whose…

How do we welcome babies to enhance their wellbeing? Mbuti mothers of the Congo invent a unique song for their womb-child, singing about the maternal…

With deep nestedness, one feels part of the Whole, senses oneness with others, human and non-human. It starts in the womb, feeling part of Mother, an oceanic…

There is a lot of focus on the importance of mothers nurturing babies to promote attachment and wellbeing. But our heritage is broader than mother-child alone…