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Just as parents are young children's first teachers for learning to read, parents are young children’s first teachers for learning math. Parents bring the magic!

In 1992, American author and relationship counselor, John Gray, wrote the seminal book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. It was one of the first books of its kind that claimed to highlight the fundamental psychological differences between the genders. Spending 121 weeks on the bestseller list, central metaphor became a part of […]

True economic security means everyone has the resources and agency needed to be healthy. A federal guaranteed income has the potential to be a powerful public health intervention because of the critical role income plays in shaping health outcomes.

From New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing. For a deeper understanding of shifting from Chronos to Kairos time, discover Kindred’s Worldview Chart by Four Arrows here, and Kelly Wendorf’s post here. For deeper insight into how this approach is already being applied to midwifery and prenatal care, read and listen to Kindred’s interview […]

Concealed weapons laws, self-defense shooting laws, vigilantism — what’s behind the feeling of threat in the air? Robert Sapolsky summarized the research on stress in his bestseller, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. Why don’t they? Because their stress response is used for mobilization, to get them away from a perceived threat. The stress response moves […]

The animal mind is billions of years old, its genius inherent in all of us.

“Without significant precautions, education can equip people merely to be more effective vandals of the earth."

What does it mean to be connected? Connection is about sharing our deeper selves, our beingness, with one another. We are fully present emotionally and mentally. We tune into our species evolved capacities for attunement to the world.

Read an online version of the March issue of Kindred here.   Dear Kindred, As I’ve shared in past posts, it’s always a good idea to remember that Spring celebrations in ancient traditions and mythologies embraced the ascent of Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, to the upper world where the work of integrating shadow and […]

Re-landing to Place It can be very challenging, if not impossible, to assume that we can reclaim our Indigeneity as European peoples.  The trail is very cold, Empire building has been going on for a very long time, and we may have to reach back in time to find pre-colonial societies.  But the good news […]