Breadcrumb Review: The Evolved Nest
Breadcrumb Review: The Evolved Nest This isn’t just a book review—it’s a reflection on parenting, healing, and remembering what we’ve forgotten about raising children close to nature. For my birthday, our daughter made her father help her choose a few items from my Amazon wishlist and of course, our little bibliophile insisted on including a book (because the cover looked “super like something Maman would love!”). She was completely right on that account. For days after my birthday, she kept asking for updates on my to-be-read pile, pressuring me to start her book. I'm so very glad I picked it up. How fitting that she would gift me a book about how we, as a society, can raise our children in peace and harmony with the natural world. The main concept is this: throughout their evolution, each species has developed an optimal way to raise its young—methods that promote ecological balance with their environment and coexisting species. One of the book’s most powerful points...