by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Non-violent Communication
Nonviolent Communication allows us to shift our thinking from good and bad judgments to heartfelt connection with ourselves and our children through focusing on the universal human needs we are both seeking to meet. “She drives me mad when she won’t tidy her room.”...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Introduction to Aware Parenting
Yesterday my daughter cried. Her friend had come to play and they both wanted to drink from the blue cup. She looked at him; her chin wobbled; her mouth trembled. Her eyes unveiled her sadness. Then came the tears. Sitting next to Lana, her dad and I looked lovingly...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Connected Crying, Crying, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Sleep and Aware Parenting
I wrote this article in early 2007, when my son was 9 months old! I have a more compassionate style of writing nowadays. If you are reading this, I invite you to have lots of compassion for yourself and to remember that it’s never too late to listen to a...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Aware Parenting and Sleep, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Sleep and Aware Parenting
“I want to meet all my baby’s attachment needs and yet I am desperate to sleep more than two hours in a row…. Can my nine-month-old really be hungry every hour through the day and night?” A tired mum asks. This type of question arises frequently in my Aware Parenting...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Birthing
by Marion Badenoch Rose Twelve weeks into my second pregnancy, I breathed a sigh of relief. Winter Solstice came, the shortest day of the year. On the night of the full moon, I awoke from a dream filled with grief and sobbing. Later that day, I noticed a faint pink...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Introduction to Aware Parenting
Parenting with empathy is a recent phenomenon. Psychohistorian Lloyd deMause traced the evolution of parenting from antiquity through to the late twentieth century, and found that only in the middle of the twentieth century did parents start to empathise with their...
