by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Aggression, Aware Parenting
Does your child hit, bite, or are they rough with you, a sibling, other children, or pets? The cause of all these behaviours is pent-up painful feelings: either powerlessness, frustration, agitation, or fear. You might be thinking; “But she doesn’t look scared.” But...
by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Fear
Have you ever noticed that your child can become extra playful, just when you’re wanting them to ‘wind down’ to sleep? One of the many things I love about Aware Parenting the deep trust it has in a child’s innate wisdom. A child’s system is designed to...
by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Babies, Feelings
As a baby, I was born at 30 weeks and was in an incubator for 6 weeks, and this experience ignited a passion in me from my teenage years onwards to understand what babies experience during and after birth. I remember the first time that I realised that our birth...
by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Baby carrying and carriers, Colonised, Conditioning, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation
I wrote this in 2021 and feel called to share it with you now! I wonder if you’ve read The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff? I read it in 1992, and it was a big turning point in my understanding of the disconnected domination culture. I was doing my Ph.D. at the...
by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting
Up until recently, behaviourism has been the core tenet of mainstream parenting and was particularly influential in America. 𝕭𝖊𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖒 𝖎𝖘 𝖇𝖆𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖓 𝖈𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖋𝖘: A human’s true nature is ‘bad’; A parent’s role is to have power over children; Children...
by Marion Rose | Mar 16, 2022 | Aware Parenting, The balance of attention
Hello again, How are you? What’s been going on for you? I’m sending so much love and compassion to you in these big times we’re living through. Here in Northern NSW we have been affected by massive flooding which has deeply impacted our community. My mum lives in a...
