Here is a little welcoming song you can sing to a baby in the womb, at birth and after they arrive. It's important for babies and young children to always feel welcomed and supported to keep them in a growth state. Written and performed by Darcia Narvaez.

Learn more about Darcia's songs for children and families here: https://kindredmedia.org/2022/08/nature-connection-songs-for-children-and-adults/

Here are the lyrics:

Welcome New Baby
Chords: A, D, E

1 Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby
We sing with Baby
We dance with Baby
We laugh with Baby
We play/pray with Baby
Baby, Baby, you’re one of the family.

2 Mama
We sing with Mama
We dance with Mama
We laugh with Mama
We play/pray with Mama
Mama, Mama, you’re one of the family.

Do the same verse for each member of the family:

We sing with [name]
We dance with [name]
We laugh with [name]
We play/pray with [name]
[name], [name], you’re one of the family.

We sing with Daddy
We dance with Daddy
We laugh with Daddy
We play/pray with Daddy
Daddy, Daddy, you’re one of the family.

Last: put all the family names into the song and end with
We’re all part of the family.

Welcome Baby Song - By Darcia Narvaez

Lisa Reagan talks with Darcia Narvaez about the new Evolved Nest Baby Bill of Rights poster, available here. In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.  It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history.  However, as Darcia explains in this interview, children's basic needs are not the basic needs of babies. A Baby's Bill of Rights are really the baby's basic needs for brain, immune system, and even spiritual development (nature connection). If these basic needs aren't meet when a baby's biology expects them to be met, we are looking at a lifetime of compensating for these deficiencies as adults.

The Baby's Bill of Rights was first presented in the academic book, Basic Needs, Wellbeing, and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential, by Darcia Narvaez in 2018. The 14 rights of babies presented on the poster are directly from the nine components of our Evolved Nest – a few components were broken down into smaller parts. You can listen to Darcia discuss each of these baby's rights in the podcast interview.

In this interview, you will learn:

1. Why a Baby's Bill of Rights is needed.
2. Why is the Baby's Bill of Rights speaking to communities and not parents?
3. How is a baby's developmental needs different from a child's needs?
4. How does a Baby's Bill of Rights contribute to the creation of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society?

Why Do Baby's Need A Bill of Rights? (New poster discussed)

Read the article here: https://kindredmedia.org/2023/04/what-is-education-for/

Abstract:
The world today is in a bad way. Humanity forgot how to raise children to live well on Earth. Dr. Narvaez discusses holistic education, which contrasts with typical schooling practiced today. She describes what a nested, healing classroom does, and what schooling that promotes ecological literacy and ethical development can look like. To change from trauma-inducing ways, child raising and schooling must return to fostering ecological wisdom, wellbeing and inclusive ethics.

Read the post here: https://kindredmedia.org/2023/04/what-is-education-for/

Listen to the audio here: https://soundcloud.com/evolvednest/education-in-a-time-of-human-caused-ecological-devastation

Visit the Evolved Nest site at www.EvolvedNest.org
Read Darcia Narvaez on Kindred at www.KindredMedia.org
Visit Kindred World's nonprofit website to support our work at www.KindredWorld.org

Presented at the Sustainable General Education, Humanities in Medicine and in STEAM Education. Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Congress on College General Education, Taiwan.

Education in a Time of Human-Caused Ecological Devastation

The world today is in a bad way. Humanity forgot how to raise children to live well on Earth. Dr. Narvaez discusses holistic education, which contrasts with typical schooling practiced today. She describes what a nested, healing classroom does, and what schooling that promotes ecological literacy and ethical development can look like. To change from trauma-inducing ways, child raising and schooling must return to fostering ecological wisdom, wellbeing and inclusive ethics.

Read the post here: https://kindredmedia.org/2023/04/what-is-education-for/

Listen to the audio here: https://soundcloud.com/evolvednest/education-in-a-time-of-human-caused-ecological-devastation

Visit the Evolved Nest site at www.EvolvedNest.org
Read Darcia Narvaez on Kindred at www.KindredMedia.org
Visit Kindred World's nonprofit website to support our work at www.KindredWorld.org

Presented at the Sustainable General Education, Humanities in Medicine and in STEAM Education. Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Congress on College General Education, Taiwan.

Discover the new short film, Reimagining Humanity, the sequel to Breaking the Cycle, and its capacity to help us employ our rational imaginations and ancestral wisdom to remember who we really are, and who we can truly become. Visit the website to see the film and discover resources for community engagement: www.ReimaginingHumanity.com.

In this podcast, Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan discuss how the short film draws on our ongoing nonprofit vision-holding of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society. Listen to Darcia share: 

Why do we need a movie like RH?

People are immersed in images and stories about how humans are naturally selfish and violent, cruel and hostile.
It’s just the way we are.
Things were so much worse in the past.
If you think the past was better, you are a romantic.
There is nothing you can do differently.
So, be competitive and get yours.
Don’t care too much about anyone else.
This is the cycle of competitive detachment.

We feel stuck. 

How do we pull ourselves away from the glue of this view? 

You need three things.

First, to change behavior, you need to have a goal, a vision of how things can be, to motivate change. RH provides this vision. Things don’t have to be the way they are, in fact they’ve hardly ever been this way.

Second, you need specific direction, that’s the Indigenous worldview and its manifestations. We can all assess our worldview practices and move them towards kinship with one another and the rest of the natural world. Again 99% of humanity manifested the Indigenous worldview.

Third, to accomplish the vision, you need steps: the evolved nest.
We can all practice nestedness in every aspect of our lives—listening to Nature, respecting the needs of babies, gently receiving others’ perspectives, playing joyfully with one another, healing and grieving together.

The overall message of RH is that our ancestors knew how to live well and fully with diversity, in oneness. We can do so too.

Why Reimagining Humanity? And How The New Short Film Can Help

Discover the new short film, Reimagining Humanity, the sequel to Breaking the Cycle, and its goal to help us employ our rational imaginations and ancestral wisdom to remember who we really are, and who we can truly become. Visit the website to see the film and discover resources for community engagement: www.ReimaginingHumanity.com.

In this discussion, Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan discussion how the short film draws on our ongoing nonprofit vision-holding of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society. Listen to Darcia share: 

Why do we need a movie like RH?

People are immersed in images and stories about how.
Humans are naturally selfish and violent, cruel and hostile.
It’s just the way we are.
Things were so much worse in the past.
If you think the past was better, you are a romantic.
There is nothing you can do differently.
So, be competitive and get yours.
Don’t care too much about anyone else.
This is the cycle of competitive detachment.

We feel stuck. 

How do we pull ourselves away from the glue of this view? 

You need three things.

First, to change behavior, you need to have a goal, a vision of how things can be, to motivate change. RH provides this vision. Things don’t have to be the way they are, in fact they’ve hardly ever been this way.

Second, you need specific direction, that’s the Indigenous worldview and its manifestations.
We can all assess our worldview practices and move them towards kinship with one another and the rest of the natural world. Again 99% of humanity manifested the Indigenous worldview.

Third, to accomplish the vision, you need steps: the evolved nest.
We can all practice nestedness in every aspect of our lives—listening to Nature, respecting the needs of babies, gently receiving others’ perspectives, playing joyfully with one another, healing and grieving together.

The overall message of RH is that our ancestors knew how to live well and fully with diversity, in oneness. We can do so too.

Reimagining Humanity - The New Short Film

Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, talks with Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw the authors of the new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Darcia is the founder of the Evolved Nest Initiative here at Kindred World and Gay is the executive director of The Kerulos Center in Jackson, Oregon. Gay is also the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity. Their integrative efforts to produce this work is generating acclaim from many fields of science and sustainability.

Gabor Mate has written the foreword to the book, which you can read on Kindred. Gabor champions the book for being “rich in mind-boggling scientific observation, will leave the reader both humbled and grateful.” The book has received numerous enthusiastic endorsements from leaders in neuroscience such as Bruce Perry, Allan Schore, Dan Siegel, and Vandava Shiva.

You can also read the first chapter of the book at KindredMedia.org and read Darcia’s posts on the Evolved Nest exclusively at Kindred.

Read the foreword: https://kindredmedia.org/2023/07/gabor-mate-on-the-evolved-nest-foreword-to-the-new-book/

Read the first chapter of the book: https://kindredmedia.org/2023/08/34998/

Repairing the Primal Tear: How Our Evolved Nest Heals Us, Our Animal Kin, And Planet

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Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, talks with the authors of the book, Attached at the Heart. Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson share their insights from the third editor of their beloved and classic parenting book.

Read more about the interview and watch the video version here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/normalizing-nurturing-a-discussion-with-the-authors-of-attached-at-the-heart/

Read the foreword to the book, by Darcia Narvaez, here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/attached-at-the-heart-the-foreword-by-darcia-narvaez/

Learn more about the book here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/35730/

“Our book encourages the nurturing care and emotional connections necessary to build strong, resilient brains for optimal mental and emotional health. It’s revolutionary because the information in this book isn’t found in most parenting books. It counters popular parenting advice in order to empower parents to listen to their babies and young children. These early years are critical to the development of trust and empathy, the necessary ingredients for developing a secure attachment,” said co-author Barbara Nicholson, MEd, CEIM.

Attached at the Heart is endorsed by parenting experts, pediatricians and luminary moms such as Alanis Morissette and Mayim Bialik, PhD.

“When we co-founded Attachment Parenting International, now known as Nurturings, nearly 30 years ago, we knew that new parents needed evidence-informed education and practical information about how best to nurture their babies. That’s how Attached at the Heart came about – as a guidebook for new parents to help them lean into their caregiving instincts and set their children up for success,” said co-author Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE, CEIM.

Attached at the Heart has been a key resource for the attachment parenting movement, encouraging parents to trust their instincts and provide responsive care for their children.

“Research has proven that early nurturing experiences transform lives. The Eight Principles of Parenting that are detailed in our book are supported by research and rooted in attachment theory. Attached at the Heart provides science and evidence-backed recommendations to guide new parents in their loving journey,” said Nicholson.

The 3rd edition provides new recommendations regarding infant sleep, how to help children and their parents maintain a secure attachment, and how parents can learn to be more emotionally self-aware in order to teach their children emotional regulation strategies.

Normalizing Nurturing: An Interview with the Authors of Attached at the Heart

Read more: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/10th-anniversary-celebration-with-darcia-narvaezs-book-that-birth-the-evolved-nest-a-video-discussion/

Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s editor, and Darcia Narvaez, Kindred World’s president, discuss the book that started it all, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom. First published in 2014, the book received the 2015 William James Book Award from Division I of the American Psychological Association as well as the Moral Development and Education SIG at the American Educational Research Association. In 2017, the book was chosen from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries for the Vatican’s Expanded Reason Award. 

Since 2019, Darcia and Lisa have worked to bring this book’s award-winning research and science to the public through the Evolved Nest Initiative and its many projects, including a trilogy of short films funded by the Vatican award monies. Kindred Magazine is a sister-initiative of the Evolved Nest Initiative. Both are collaborative, educational initiatives of the award-winning, American nonprofit, Kindred World.

In this celebratory podcast of Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality’s 10th anniversary, Lisa and Darcia discuss the book’s challenges coming into publication, its unique transdisciplinary approach, and the ongoing work through the Evolved Nest Initiative and Kindred to unpack its far-reaching potential for our human family and planet’s return to our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing, our Evolved Nest.

10th Anniversary of Neurobiology Book with Darcia Narvaez

Dr. Darcia Narvaez and Dr. Mary Tarsha discuss their new paper, “Humanity’s Evolved Developmental Niche and its Relation to Cardiac Vagal Regulation in The First Years of Life.” In the paper several components of humanity’s evolved nest were reviewed (breastfeeding, positive touch, allomothers, responsive care, free play) in relation to cardiac vagal nerve regulation, a signal of healthy development, in young children.

Vagus Nerve Development & Evolved Nest Audio

Can We Create A Village In A Competitive Culture? Reimagining And Rebuilding With The Evolved Nest And Partnerism
A Powerful Conversation with Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez

Learn more on Kindred: https://kindredmedia.org/2025/05/can-we-create-a-village-in-a-competitive-culture/

In this powerful conversation, Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez explore the synergy between Eisler’s Partnerism framework and Narvaez’s Evolved Nest model. Narvaez’s and Eisler’s lifelong scholarly works intersect in their call for a shift towards nurturing, relational, and balanced models of existence that revalue the feminine and kinship bonds, seeing these as essential for creating a sustainable, compassionate future. Their work advocates for a profound cultural transformation, grounded in the rediscovery of ancient values and practices that honor interconnectedness and the sacredness of all life.

In defining the complimentary relationship between the Evolved Nest and Partnerism, Riane points out in the video below that alloparenting, one of nine key components of our Evolved Nest, isn’t possible without economic shifts toward gender parity and valuing caregiving. Her insight provides critical guidance for cultural creatives and Nesting Ambassadors who may risk burnout in an effort to create a modern village based on a Cycle of Cooperative Companionship in a decaying culture based on a Cycle of Competitive Detachment. While Narvaez’s work restores our baselines for typical species wellbeing, Eisler’s work expands  practical guidance/insights that protect activists from entering into draining Hamster Wheel Activism (acting unconsciously from the Dominant Worldview to engender social change).

Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez: Can We Create A Village In A Competitive Culture?

The Evolved Nest is a breakthrough concept that integrates findings across fields that bear on child development, child raising and adult behavior.  The Evolved Nest promotes optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation, and receptive and sociomoral intelligences. Societal moves away from providing the Evolved Nest have contributed to the ill being and dysregulation we see in one another and society. Learn how to nest your children and re-nest yourself.

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