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“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 […]

Are you a good listener? If you ask any person, they will likely tell you they are good listeners. But if you ask the people in their life, you may get another story. The skill of great listening, the kind that really helps those around you feel met, is essential in all areas of life––parenting, […]

Philosophers have long discussed how one develops goodness. Whereas Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory, rooted in Enlightenment philosophy, emphasized reasoning sophistication with the assumption that aligned action would follow, there was another, older view of goodness—practicing virtue. In fact, Jeffrey Rosen points out that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ that USian male founders wrote about was not referring […]

Watch the video interview with Stephanie about this post and her Beyond Attachment post below and here.   I consider the word “Goddess” to refer to a state of evolved consciousness. One attains it by being free of trauma and standing unconditionally in one’s Original Brilliance, or empowered selfhood. Women, as I have observed from […]

Download Kindred’s Worldview Chart by Four Arrows here, or BUY a poster-size chart here. Read Four Arrows on Kindred here. About this Video The internet and social media are moving from the post and comment to the shared experience model.  Over the course of 23 books and hundreds of scholarly articles, Four Arrows (Donald Trent […]