Materials in Russian

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 been walking this path for a while, the emotions they stir in us are worthy of compassion. It’s also important to understand the wider cultural […]

“By carrying babies, we cultivate their capacity to care for all their relations including Mother Earth. We can save the future, one baby at time, by carrying them a minimum of one hour a day for a minimum of one year.” – Pam Leo   “The single most important child rearing practice to be adopted […]

If nurturing didn’t happen for you when you were growing up, you can cultivate those experiences now as part of your healing process. It is part of the healing work we need to do to change the world. While so much of parenting feels like we’re making sure our children eat their vegetables and don’t […]

  Kindred World is delighted to announce Andrea Brooks Dole has joined our board of directors. We welcomed Andrea as a parent representative this past spring. Andrea’s story has been featured in Kindred Magazine and she joined the first Nesting Ambassador’s Cohort this June 2025. Andrea is a recognized advocate for families of children with complex medical […]

And if we can teach our children this—that relationships are messy and worth it, that we can bridge two perspectives to build one path, that love is a daily practice, not a promise—we give them something precious. A map of their own. For life. Before Baby, We Thought We Were Ready We’d done the prenatal […]

The work of normalizing nurturing isn’t just about changing individual families, though that would be enough. It’s about shifting our entire cultural understanding of what children need and what parents can trust.  When we choose the whisperer’s way over the breaker’s way, we model a different possibility for our communities. We show that strength doesn’t […]

Just as we once believed a fed baby would thrive, we now falsely believe a well-intentioned parent can buffer a child from the  effects of systemic instability on their own. The next necessary leap in our psychological and public health understanding is this: Relational health is ecological. It requires not just one-on-one attachment between parent […]

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 “Indigenous” in four ways. First, as some argue, we are all indigenous to Earth. True. We are Earthlings with layers of being that are shared with the rest […]

Although in the USA today, many residents are ego-wilding (see prior post), this is not humanity’s heritage. Eco-wilding is our heritage. Eco-wilding deeply contrasts with ego-wilding. People often misunderstand “wildness,” as if it refers to ego-wildness—unfettered impulsive or planned antisociality. But we are not born to be ego-wild. Ego-wildness comes from undercare (unnestedness), inherited epigenetic […]

The term, wilding, emerged as a description of random youth violence. A sign of failed socialization. But in recent decades, this kind of wilding has been appearing in previously unexpected quarters—in business and political leaders. Instead of aiming for the common good with common sense about what that means, “wilders” follow their impulses to be […]