by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Cooperation
If you were at a job, and your ‘boss’ came to you and said in a rushed and tense way; “Right, today you have to do this new project. You must start it now.” Would you feel willing to do it? But how about if she came and said in a warm and relaxed tone; “Guess what!...
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...
