From the founder, Kelly Wendorf...
Kindred began in 2002 as a print magazine published in Australia, and sold world-wide. In order that Kindred could be freely available, Kindred went online in 2009. Kindred ceased formal operation in 2010, and now functions solely as an archive of important articles and blogs on raising children, wellbeing, spirituality, culture and sustainability. May the pages on this website be good and nourishing company on your journey.
Kelly's Essays and Editorials
Teens, Screens and Technology Creep
In a well-known education journal, a computer hardware ad depicts an empty classroom, with computers on each desk. Outside in the background is an empty schoolyard. The children are clustered off to one side, faces pressed against the classroom window peering inside. ‘We make recess obsolete,’ touts the ad. Read more
Birthing at Home - a powerful social contribution
In 2001, actress Ricki Lake gave birth to her second child in her home—in her bathtub to be precise—with the assistance of a midwife. She decided to birth at home after she experienced unwanted medical interventions while delivering her first child at a hospital birthing unit. This time she wanted birth on her own terms. Read more
Kelly's Blog
Radical Self-acceptance
When I was a child, I learned early on that people were very pleased with me if I was the person they wanted me to be—polite, kind, generous, good-tempered, quiet. But while I could be those things, I was also, like all children, much more than that — talkative, moody, shy, selfish, unkind. Being a pleaser, I strove hard—at a great personal cost—to be the things that people liked, and to bury the things they didn’t...read more
