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Brain-Based Parenting: A Podcast Book Review
The Evolved Nest · Brain - Based Parenting: A Book Review
Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha review Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of…
Why Provide Empathic Care for Infants?
What does empathy look like for babies? And its absence?
I see a lot of educated people not showing empathic care towards their infants, even when at the moment…
Myths About Circumcision You Probably Believe
When the first author was pregnant with her first child, she just thought that circumcision was what you did, no big deal, and that every man was circumcised.…
Restoring Humanity’s Promise: Nestedness And Indigenous Wisdom
Narvaez and Tarsha discuss humanity's heritages of evolved nest provision, the indigenous worldview and how to return to the sustainable wisdom our…
Mother Love Used To Matter: Part 1 of 4
Warm, responsive mothering was assumed vital for infant health.
The What Happened To Mothering? Series
Part 1: Mother Love Used to MatterPart…
If Machines Replace Teachers
It is being proposed that technology, artificial intelligence, more properly ‘machine learning’, can and will soon replace human teachers and physical…
What Do You Know About Breastfeeding?
Most people are ignorant about human breast milk’s effects.
You might think you know enough about breastfeeding and breast milk. But you probably don’t…
The Roots of Pathology: Authoritarianism Towards Babies
Societal problems start in babyhood, one comparative psychoanalyst argued.
Authoritarianism harms others (see prior post). Authoritarianism towards babies…
Are We All Authoritarians?
What are the sources of authoritarianism, an anti-difference orientation?
For a democracy with diverse ethnicities and religions, authoritarianism is a problem.…
Why It’s Hard To Trust Children
Check out Teresa Graham Brett's Parent Liberation Program, an online, self-paced study based on her Parenting for Social Change book, exclusively here on…