Blog at Substack, The Nested Pathway
(2024-present)
My essays at KindredMedia.org (2016-present)
My archived blog at Psychology Today (2009-2022):
Moral Landscapes: Living the Life that is Good for One to Live
Selected Blog Posts with Links
Un-Nested Humans, Un-Human Nature?
PARENTING POSTS (Babies, Sleep, Birth, Circumcision, Breastfeeding, Play, General Parenting, Children’s rights)
GENERAL TOPICS (Basic Needs, Self-Actualization and Human Thriving; Societal Characteristics; Indigenous Wisdom; Nature Connection; Morality)
BABIES
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Babies
Five Things NOT to Do to Babies
How Modern Societies Violate Human Development
Raising a Baby Well: Like Climbing Mount Everest
Early Childhood Care: What Should Centers Provide?
Authoritarianism Towards Babies
What Does “Spoiling” a Baby Mean? Can It Be Done?
Disbelieving the Importance of Mothering
Why Provide Empathic Care for Infants?
What Is “Good Enough Mothering” of a Baby?
The Hows and Whys of Attachment Parenting
Should You Treat Your Baby Like Your Phone?
Protect (All) Your Boys from Early Trauma
Why Carefully Invest Daily in a Child
Why Synchronize and Bond With Your Children
Can Isolated Babies Become “Real” Human Beings?
Respecting Babies and Young Children
Make America’s Kids Healthy: Soothing Birth
Make America’s Children Healthy Again, Pt. 3: Togetherness
“Government-Sanctioned Child Abuse”: Border Separation
Make America’s Children Healthy (Part 2): Affection
Make America’s Children Healthy (Again): Nutrition
Baby in the Senate! Is That Good?
The ‘On-Demand’ Life and the Basic Needs of Babies
The Science and Art of Mothering
Killing Mothering, the Center of Society
12 Ways to Nurture Babies at Conception, Birth, and Beyond
Bronco-Buster Parenting: Baby Unwise
Baby Care: 3 Rs for Raising A Happy Child
Baby Care: Baselines for Mental Health
What Adults Did to Me at Birth: A Baby’s Point of View
Raising Children With Love or Dynamite?
Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys
Baby Crying? Don’t Shame the Parents!
Evil Babies and Parenting (Alice Miller’s Insights)
Staying in Touch With Real Babies: Correcting the AAP
Why Early Experience Matters: Famous Scholars Know
The Dangers of Spanking a Baby
The Single Most Important Thing to Know About a Baby
Babies “don’t cry in Africa,” why should they cry in the USA?
Blame the baby or blame the experts?
Dumb Parent(ing), Dumberer Child
SLEEP ISSUES
6 Hidden Myths Behind Baby Sleep Training Advocacy
Child Sleep Training’s “Best Review of Research”
Parents Misled by Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Reports
Rebuttal to critique: Rebuking Bad Parenting Advice: Did We Go Too Far?
Baby Sleep Training: Mistakes “Experts” and Parents Make
‘Let Crying Babes Lie’? So Wrong
Simple Ways to Calm a Crying Baby
Normal, Human Infant Sleep: Feeding Method and Development
Normal Infant Sleep: Changing Patterns
Normal Parent Behaviors and Why They Won’t Hurt Your Child
Normal Infant Sleep: Night Nursing’s Importance
More Normal Parenting for Sleep
Understanding and Helping Toddler Sleep
Understanding and Helping Toddler Sleep-Tiredness?
Understanding and Helping Toddler Sleep–Preparing Success
Bed Sharing With Babies: What is the Hype About?
Bedsharing or Co-Sleeping Can Save Babies’ Lives
Conversation with a Mother about Sleep Training her Baby
Avoid Stressful Sleep Training and Get the Sleep You Need
Flawed Sleep-Training Study Makes Invalid Claims-in the News
BIRTH
Painkillers for Childbirth? The Few Pros and Many Cons
What’s the Use of Midwives and Doulas?
What if Jesus Had Been Born in the USA?
CIRCUMCISION
Myths about Circumcision You Likely Believe
More Circumcision Myths You May Believe: Hygiene and STDs
Circumcision: Social, Sexual, Psychological Realities
Circumcision Ethics and Economics
What Is the Greatest Danger for an Uncircumcised Boy?
Why Continue to Harm Boys from Ignorance of Male Anatomy?
Practical Tips for Men Distressed by Their Circumcision
Pro-Circumcision Culturally Biased, Not Scientific: Experts
Letter to “Happily Circumcised” Father
Circumcision’s Psychological Damage
Protect (All) Your Boys from Early Trauma
Practical Tips for Men Distressed by Their Circumcision
Letter to “Happily Circumcised” Father
Why Not Circumcise Your Boy? A Potential Link to Autism
BREASTFEEDING (More resources here)
Talk About Breastfeeding With Your Family, Friends and Doctor
Breastmilk Wipes Out Formula: Responses to Critical Comments
In Light of Last Week’s Posts: Is Pushing* Formula Evil?
The REAL Truth about Breastfeeding
5 Things You Thought You Knew about Breastfeeding
The TREMENDOUS Benefits of Doing What is Normal: Breastfeeding
Myths you probably believe about infant formula
Your assumptions about infant formula are probably wrong
It’s Breastfeeding Week: Why should you care?
What Do You Know About Breastfeeding?
Breastfeeding as Companionship: An Ancient Tradition
To Doubters of The Importance of Breastfeeding
The Myth of “Breastfeeding is Optional”
Breastfeeding: What Is It Good For?
Breast Milk Keeps Time and May Set Baby’s Clock
Breastfeeding’s Importance—What Science Tells Us
Breastfeeding in the USA—A Little History
How Do Children Learn Respect for Others?
New Book, Unlatched, Explores Whether Breastfeeding Is Vital
Breastfeeding Moms Face Illegal Discrimination at Work
PLAY
Happiness and Growth Through Play
Children May Be Playing, But Their Brains Are Working
Is Pretend Play Good For Kids?
Playing at School: More Important Than We Thought?
Does Too Much Screen Time Make Kids Sick?
What’s Better: Indoor or Outdoor Play?
Social Play: A Longstanding Way to Cope
The Benefits of Play Events in Your Community
Start a Play Club in Your School
Community Service: Teens Make Great Play Advocates
Inter-generational Games Night
Make Play Part of a Planned Community Event
“The Emperor’s New Groove,” A Movie that Teaches Ethics
Why Close a Street to Play as a Community?
How to Plan a Play Day in Your Community
How to Start a Play Committee in Your Community
The Play Lady Tells Us How to Become Play-ers
TOUCH
Should We Touch Our Children During a Pandemic?
How to Respect a Baby Through Positive Touch
Are you or your child on a (touch) starvation diet?
Mother’s touch of dead baby causes “miracle”
Premies: Maternal Touch Has 10-Year Effects
MORE PARENTING: GENERAL
Creating a Peaceful World Through Parenting
Should Toddlers Be Medicated for ADHD?
Successful Motherhood Is a Collaboration
Research on Spanking: It’s Bad for ALL Kids
What Happened to Ethics in Pediatric Medicine?
Baby-, Parent- or Life-Centered Parenting?
Ten Ways to Truly Respect Motherhood
Parents Should Know the Limitations of Science Experiments
Are you treating your child like a prisoner?
Undercare: The bane of American life?
Promoting Thriving in School-Aged Children: A Checklist
Is it good to make kids afraid?
What Does Good Parenting Look Like? You Decide.
Cocooning With Kids: Schools Closed, What Now?
Cocooning with Kids: Explaining and Redirecting
6 Kinds of Abilities Children May Learn Better Outside Classrooms
Thriving or Just Surviving? Are Your Children Nested?
How to Stop Disrespecting Your Children
Adult Justification of Child Humiliation and Mistreatment
“Having Guts” to Harden Parents’ Hearts
Anxious Parents Helped by “World’s Worst Mom”
Domination or Partnership? How Does Your Family Stack Up?
Conflict in the Family: Why Mom and Dad Should Say “Sorry”
“Mr. Mom” The New (or Old?) Normal
Why Kids Should Be Protected from Toxic Stress
“I Want It—Now!” How Children Learn Self-Control
Kindness in Kids and The Nature-Nurture Debate
Raised Nested: Species-Typical Child Raising
Brain-Based Parenting: Understand and Heal the Parent Brain
Are Child Raising Practices Related to Extremism?
What Does the Family Foster: A Lovable or Unlovable Self?
Dear Parents: “No Spanking” Says APA
Sacrificing Children’s Health to Profits
From Mother to Motherers: We’re Grateful for Their Support
Allomothers: Our Evolved Support System for Mothers
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Are You a “Childist?” Test Yourself
Babies Are Needy—Does That Bug You?
Do We Need Declaration for the Rights of the Baby?
The Decline of Children and the Moral Sense
Believing “children are resilient” may be a fantasy
How America Morally Fails its Children: What Needs to Change
Increase the well-being of children around you
BASIC NEEDS, SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND HUMAN THRIVING
Do You Know Your Basic Needs? There Are More Than You Think
We Can Heal the Shock We Carry
Using Your Brain’s Plasticity to Increase Your Serenity
Insights From the “New Science of Self-Actualization”
Understanding the Integrated Brain
What Are the Characteristics of Thriving Adults?
How to Live This Year as if It Were Your Last
Can Sheltering-in-Place Bring About More Mental Health?
Become More Peaceful, No Matter the Circumstances
Sanctuary for Attachment-Broken People
Self Actualization: Individualistic or Holistic Connection?
In the Borderland of Consciousness
Approaching the Borderland of Transformation
Partnership Not Domination Fosters Wellbeing
Self-Transformation 2: Ego-Dissolution
Self-Transformation, Step 1: Building the Ego
Does Your Psyche Embrace Flourishing?
The Bracing, Empty Self versus the Open, Heart-Minded Self
Understanding Attachment and Its Consequences
Understanding Epigenetics and What Makes You You
The Ever-Present Ghost of Shame
Older and Weaker, or Older and Wiser?
Raising Boys to Be Disconnected
Relational Disconnection as Mental Illness
How to Get on the Path to Self Actualization
Self-Actualization: Are You on the Path?
Stories of Connection to Heal the Primal Wound
Stories That Heal Primal Wounds
Fantasyland: A Nation of Primally Wounded People
Your Primal Wound: What Happened in Childhood?
The Primal Wound: Do You Have One?
Why Are (Some) Males’ Egos So Fragile?
Attachment Social Play for Self-Transformation
SOCIETAL CHARACTERISTICS
What Societal Characteristics Are Associated With Peace?
The Scars of Moral Injury From George Floyd’s Death
The Kind of Intelligence We Need Now
The Social Structures That Support You (or Not)
Do You Know How to Evaluate Truth Claims?
Five Ways Many Americans Are Impoverished (Beyond Money)
Which America? Which Christianity? Which Path?
White Supremacy in the Tradition of American Christianity
Book Review: Dying of Whiteness
The Psychology of Corruption: Kleptocracy vs. Democracy
Historical Roots of Polarization: Democracy or Oligarchy?
The Psychology of Domestic Terrorists: Eliminationism
The Psychology of Donald Trump
Ecocentrism: What May Be Needed to Save Our Species
Inhuman Treatment of Others Is a Thought Away
Know How Your Implicit Associations Are Fostered
Domination Logic and the History of Slavery
The Worldview Underlying White-European Culture Supremacism
Understanding the “Cultural Bomb” of Whiteness
Conservatism, Racism, and Fascism Confused
Only for the Brave? Uncovering White Supremacy
Why Are Some People Noncompliant With Stay-at-Home Orders?
Mindful Conservatism: Humanity’s Past—and Future?
What Does Compassion Look Like During a World Crisis?
How Globalized Capitalism May Affect Your Psyche
Learning From Years Lived Abroad
Industrial vs Primal Intelligence: What We Are Missing
Is America Governed by a Cult?
Culture Transformation: Learning How You Are Privileged
Why Are Humans Destroying Themselves and the Planet?
The Psychology of Supremacism: Whether White, Male or Human
Mass Killers Explained by Syndrome E (Evil)
Love for a Killer: “A Very Evil Kid”
Solving Humanity’s Emotional Disorders
Explaining the Ferguson Killing: Five Factors
INDIGENOUS WISDOM
Natives Foster Happy People Without Overthinking
Indigenous Psychologies from Around the World
Indigenous Psychologies Contrast With Western Psychology
Sustainable Wisdom: Indigenous Style
Wise Elders in the Circle of Life
Earth Home Economics: Rebecca Adamson and “Enoughness”
American Indians: The Misunderstood Heritage
10 Indigenous Holistic Healing Practices
Self-Actualize and Become a Wise Elder
Broken Eagle Wing: Mending Worldview
How Many Worldviews Are There? Is Only One Sustainable?
Our Ancestors Were Smart and Good
NATURE CONNECTION
Daily Practices That Increase Nature Connection
Learn Again to Be an Earth Creature
Socially Distanced? Get Closer to Nature
Nature Heals, Restores, and Comforts
Analyses of Inaction Toward the Ecological Crisis
We Are in a Climate Emergency—How Can Psychology Help?
The “Death of Birth” and Losing Nature
Humans Defeat Nature—As Prescribed. Now What?
A Good Life: Embodied, Earth-Centric or Controlled, Detached
Changing the Human Psyche for Living Sustainably
Living Virtuously– With the Land
MORALITY
Identity Changes When You See More Clearly
Does Morality Require Changing Yourself or the World?
Religion’s Roots: Self-Transform to Increase Compassion
What’s it Like to Experience the Transrational Borderland?
Is Religion About Belief or Behavior?
Hugs and Cuddles Instead of Spanking
Is Personality Influenced by Early Psychic Wounding?
Why You Should Cuddle Your Kids: Adult Health and Morality
Why Does “Caveman” Parenting Influence Adult Morality?
Love & Life: Who Decides What Lives?
Moral Absence in Everyday Life
Morality: Seeds Must Be Planted Rightly in Early Life
Is Humanity’s “Moral Sense” Inherited or Nurtured?
Why Worry About Undercared for Males? Messed up Morals!
Trump, Stress Reactivity, Trance, and Ethics
Why Does ‘Caveman’ Parenting Support Adult Mental Health?
Blogs traducidos en espanol
http://cozybebe.blogspot.mx/2015/04/cinco-cosas-que-no-se-deben-hacer-los.html
http://mamasgallina.blogspot.com/
http://losquincemandamientos.blogspot.com/2013/07/de-verdad-nacimos-para-ser-egoistas-lo.html
El declive de los niños y del sentido moral
Blogs translated to Russian
Milkmomstory. Мама и малыш. Истории о главном
http://milkmomstory.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%B4-%D1%80%20%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%81
