Press and Presentations

Join our monthly live call in this video recording of November 2024. In this event, Eugene Malthouse of the University of Nottingham, UK, presents his latest research into the Experience of the Evolved Nest. Listen to questions from the audience for Darcia Narvaez. Learn more about this event, and where to find dates for upcoming […]

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 […]

We live in a child-unfriendly world (or at least a child-unfriendly nation), where children are more or less continuously imprisoned. We have increased the pressures and decreased the pleasures of schooling. We have developed largely irrational fears of letting our kids run free outdoors. Neighbors, police, and child protective services often regard what was once […]

If you are curious about discovering your worldview literacy capacities, you’ll love this interview with Claudia Ayuso that covers the basics of exposing the Dominant Worldview, our Old Story, and how we shift to a life-affirming, Indigenous/Kinship Worldview. You can see Four Arrows present in the video at the 14:17 mark. Four Arrows says about […]