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Thirteen Ways to Enable Free Play and Other Independent Activities for…
"When I give talks to parents about children's need for independent activity—and I really mean need, this is like food and water, not a luxury—the…
From Rewards and Punishments to Connection and Nurturing
I want to invite you to bring tenderness and tending to yourself as you explore this way of relating to children. Whether you are new to these ideas or have…
Nurturing Our Humanity: By Riane Eisler & Douglas Fry – A Book…
Editor's Note: The follow exclusive excerpt from Nurturing Our Humanity is shared with permission from the author and publisher. This content is excluded from…
Normalizing Nurturing: From Horse Whisperer to Parent Whisperer
The work of normalizing nurturing isn't just about changing individual families, though that would be enough.
It's about shifting our entire cultural…
The Buffering of Belonging: The Facilitation to Flocks’ Sequence
Birth Roots’ Facilitation to Flocks redemptive arc restores what clinical models leave out: relational scaffolding, peer attunement, and cohort co-regulation…
Remembering James W. Prescott, Early Childhood Development Pioneer and…
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual…
What Does the Great Awakening Look Like In Human Relationships? A…
Kindred's nonprofit partner, Local Futures, has launched The Bristol Conversations – a podcast and video series featuring Helena Norberg Hodge in deep, soulful…
The Ethics of Evil
Thomas Aquinas defined sin as the violation of human wellbeing. Erich Fromm (1973) calls such behavior irrational:
“I propose to call rational any thought,…
Why Is Authoritarianism So Easy?
It wasn’t hard to become a Nazi. From my short lifetime of experience, I pulled together unresolved bitterness, feelings of unjust treatment and social slights,…
Who/What is “Indigenous”?
People sometimes ask or wonder about how to be respectful of Native Peoples while desiring to adopt Indigenous ways. I find it helpful to approach the term…