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Conscious Parenting
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…
Changing The World From The Inside Out
This must be the way European Jews felt as the roots of the Nazi holocaust began cracking through the pavement we call civil society; this emanate premonition…
The Trump Phenomenon Started With Childhoods
Dear Kindred Reader,
In his seminal work, Parenting for a Peaceful World, Robin Grille pointed out that the rise of the Third Reich in Germany was preceded…
The Election: Of Hate, Grief, And A New Story
Normal is coming unhinged. For the last eight years it has been possible for most people (at least in the relatively privileged classes) to believe that society…
AAP’s New Sleep Recommendations Aren’t For Real Babies
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) guide to sleep gives professional recommendations on how parents can “help baby develop healthy sleep habits during…
Ducking Pies Presenting Birth Psychology For 34 Years: An Interview With…
Thomas Verny, MD, shares his experience over 34 years of "ducking pies" presenting the science of birth psychology that, today, finds mainstream audiences…
AAP No Bed-Sharing Recommendation At Odds with Breastfeeding Unintended…
The AAPs updated recommendations for safe infant sleep better emphasize the importance of infant proximity to a parent at night, both for safety and for…
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…