The Evolved Nest

Celebrate and Honor World Animal Day with the Evolved Nest Film, Book, and Resources Watch the film here and below. Read the foreword to the Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Read the first chapter of the Evolved Nest book here.   Pledge to Respect Animal Dignity World Animal Day I did not grow up […]

Kindred is proud to share highlights from the 1st Impressions Immersive Exhibit at the recent 2024 Global Mental Health Conference at Sofia University,  where our materials and films were featured. The theme of the conference was Enlightened Minds, Compassionate Hearts, and Embodied Wisdom: An Integrative Approach to Advancing Mental Health and Well-Being Local, Global and Beyond! […]

Join our monthly Nested World live call in this video recording from November 2024. In this event, Eugene Malthouse of the University of Nottingham, UK, presents his latest research into the Experience of the Evolved Nest. Watch Eugene’s presentation and listen to questions from the audience for Eugene and Darcia Narvaez. Learn more about this […]

Our ancestors were deeply intelligent. About two million years ago we evolved cooperative child raising, which fosters big social brains and distinguishes us from chimpanzees. It is time to remember what our ancestors intuited and science now confirms. 1.     We are biosocial. That is, our biology is shaped by our social experiences and our sociality […]

Normalizing nighttime nurturing is here at last! The combination of inspiration and information in this much needed children’s book can liberate those parents who already share sleep with their babies and little children and give permission to those who will want to. We Share Our Sleep is the story of a momma telling her little […]

About the Book Please Read To Me is a multicultural, bilingual book that shows parents, grandparents, siblings, and caregivers the joys and benefits of bonding with babies and young children by reading to them. Featuring beautiful illustrations donated by Maine artists, the story is a child’s plea for love and literacy. The rhyming text makes it […]

“Rhymers will be readers; it’s that simple. Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by age four, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight!”  – Mem Fox, author Reading Magic I am living proof that this Mem Fox quote is true. […]

Letter from the Editor Kindred’s November 2024 Issue Read this issue in your browser here. * “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi What does the Mother Tree offer […]

We live in a semi-totalitarian system* where most families are forced to under nurture their children and themselves in order to eat and have a place to sleep. Many families fall through the cracks and are broken apart due to addiction, prison, child protective services, and other forms of trauma and its symptoms. We can […]

I grew up with the radio on most of the time, tuned into a university radio station with educational shows on the arts, public affairs, cooking, gardening. The shows expanded imagination, for example, providing insights about foreign lands and people from those lands—building empathy and understanding. It was an introduction to a type of cosmopolitanism […]