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Pam Leo

Nesting Ambassador Category: Certified Nesting Ambassadors
Pam Leo is an independent scholar in human development, a leading voice in the Conscious Parenting Movement, and a family literacy activist. She is the author of Connection Parenting and the children’s book, Please Read to Me, which was a recipient of two Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation grants for $25,000 in 2021 and 2023.  Please Read to Me, the board book, was distributed to Maine babies and children through the King Foundation grant monies. A soft and hard bound version of the book is forthcoming through Kindred World Publishing House.
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Pam has worked with children and families for more than forty years. Her parenting education field work includes teaching incarcerated parents, parents in rehabilitation and recovery programs, and teen parents to connect with their children.  From her work with at-risk families, she learned that all parents very much want to provide for their own children. She has “never met a parent who didn’t want life to be better for their children than it was for them.” She also realized at-risk families were caught in cycles of trauma and illiteracy, and the two could be addressed with strategic, relational activism based on her Connection Parenting insights. Today, the Book Fairy Pantry Project and Read-Aloud Parenting are her dynamic initiatives that serve at-risk families, and all families.
Pam is a third-generation homeschooler and homeschool advocate. She was the keynote speaker for 900 homeschooling moms at Wild +Free Homeschooling Conference in Nashville, TN, in 2022. (See photos above.) Early in her life experience, Pam was a birth doula, and childbirth educator. She brought Joseph Chilton Pearce to Maine for The “I Am a Magical Child” weekend conference attended by 400+ parents, practitioners,  and educators. Joseph Chilton Pearce is credited with launching the Conscious Parenting Movement with his seminal works, including Magical Child, 1977. (See the photo of Pam and Joe above.)
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Pam’s long history as a leading voice of the Conscious Parenting Movement includes being a founding board member of the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children, aTLC, and a board member of the award-winning nonprofit, Kindred World. She has written for Empathetic Parenting Journal (beginning in 1997, see photo above), Mothering Magazine, Pathways to Family Wellness Magazine, and is currently a contributing editor to Kindred Magazine. She is a regular presenter at homeschooling, parenting, and literacy conferences, and featured on podcasts and television news programs nationally.
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Pam is an early literacy and read-aloud advocate. Her enduring love of children’s  books, her passion for literacy, and her commitment to empowering parents, are combined in her new role as the founder of a grassroots literacy movement through the Book Fairy Pantry Project and Read-Aloud Parenting. Both family literacy initiatives are part of Kindred World’s ongoing, award-winning nonprofit work. Pam serves on the board of directors for Kindred World.
Read Pam’s posts and listen to podcast interviews on Kindred Magazine.
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Pam Leo is one of the world’s most quoted and beloved independent human development scholars. Read her quote collection on Pinterest.
Watch her video interview collection on YouTube.
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Nesting Ambassador Project (One of Many):
Normalizing Nurturing: A Letter From This Issue’s Guest Editor, Pam Leo
“It is my hope that this Normalizing Nurturing Issue of Kindred will give you, not only hope for another way forward, but models and the tools for manifesting a culture where caring about each other, and the planet that sustains us, is the natural outcome of meeting the species’ specific needs of all.”