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Parenting’s Troubled History
As we learned from the CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE Study, negative childhood experiences are often kept secret, downplayed, or repressed because of our powerful…
An All American Bully
How is the presidential election affecting children? The Trump Effect: The Impact of The 2016 Presidential Election on Our Nation's Schools surveyed…
When We Fail To Be Shocked
In August, I wrote a piece urging us not to buy into the language of ‘shock’ when it is used to describe images of children caught up in war. I was trying…
Quiet Hugs
Morning and Muse often arrive together. Today their light cast long shadows across the wood floor. The house was still. Up before the others I sipped fresh…
Enlightenment Is…
I hope every parent is knocked off their chair by the astonishing capacity their child exhibits every day. Recall – 700 new neural connections every second and…
Remembering Joe: On The Passing Of The Grandfather Of The Conscious…
Joseph Chilton Pearce was born January 14, 1926, in Pineville, Kentucky, and passed on August 23, 2016 in his lifelong home in Faber, Virginia. Joe, as…
Recipes For Reading: Activities To Bring Children’s Books Alive!
Welcome to my first Recipes for Reading. It is exciting to be back at Kindred, wearing my new hat of Family Literacy Activist and Founder of the Book Fairy…
Small Is Better
When my children were babies, I worried about every cough and fever. I frantically thumbed through my dog-eared copy of How to Raise a Healthy Child in…
Everyday Abuse
Holding my hand Carly Elizabeth stopped in her tracks. Walking down the street, a few yards ahead, were three large overstuffed derrières and a bright, bored…
Joseph Chilton Pearce Remembered, January 14, 1926 – August 23, 2016
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to embody an insight our teachers share. Joe (Joseph Chilton Pearce) was like an idealized father, ideal in the sense of sharing…