by Marion Rose | Nov 1, 2017 | Inner Loving Mother, Self-Compassion for Parents, Willingness
Hello! Yesterday I was in the middle of something and my son asked me to do something for him, and as I went to do it, I tripped on a chair. And I recognised this. It’s when I don’t check in with myself and my willingness before I respond to their...
by Marion Rose | Oct 31, 2017 | Cooperation, Willingness
I find willingness so helpful in parenting. We can listen to: Whether we’re willing to do what our child is asking of us. Whether we’re willing for our child to do what we want them to do. Whether our child is free to be willing to cooperate with us. So...
by Marion Rose | Oct 30, 2017 | Compassion, Get Free From Guilt, Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Presence Process, Loving Limits, The Willingness Practice
Hello! This is for anyone who frequently judges, shoulds, have-to’s, and compares themselves. If you saw two children in a park, and one was hitting the other one with a stick, would you keep on watching? If the stick hitting was happening day in and day out, would...
by Marion Rose | Oct 23, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Evolving Through Parenting, Mirroring, Non-violent Communication, Psychospiritual Parenting, Repression mechanisms
Hello! I’d love to start telling you a bit about my background so you can see where this piece on Psychospiritual Parenting comes from. I started with psychology, really, because I wanted to understand myself and why I was the way I was. I...
by Marion Rose | Oct 9, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Breast-feeding, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Babies, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Mirroring, Needs and Control Patterns, Nourish Your Needs, Repression, Repression mechanisms
Hello! I’d like to start with: My journey with feelings and repressing feelings. I’d love to share my own journey with this over the years. When I trained as a psychospiritual psychotherapist in the 1990’s, I learnt all about feelings and addictions and...
by Marion Rose | Sep 26, 2017 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Loving Limits, Presence and Present Time, Present Time, Rage, Tantrums
In this article, I’m going to start with the three reasons why it can be hard for us to respond empathically and effectively to our children when they’re hitting, biting, pushing, taking and throwing. And then I’m going to talk about 3 ways we can respond to these...
