by Marion Rose | Apr 30, 2025 | Aware Parenting, Aggression, Attachment Play, Conditioning, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Crying, Culture, Dissociation, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Parenting Paradigm, The balance of attention
There are many different beliefs about why children hit, and based on those beliefs, what the most helpful response to a hitting child is. Old religious paradigms believed that children were innately evil or bad and needed to be shamed and punished into being...
by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Control Patterns, Feelings
All children experience daily stresses, however much we aim to meet their needs and protect them from harm. The majority of children also experience bigger stresses, which could be called trauma. Each child differs in the amount of stress and trauma they experience...
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 29, 2020 | Aggression, Colonised, Conditioning, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Get Free From Guilt, Neo No, Outrage, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Development, Social Change, Tantrums, The Willingness Practice, Unwillingness, Will, Willingness
Did you know that the following are all linked: Your capacity and comfortableness at speaking a clear and calm, “no.” Your sense of energy and aliveness in your body; Your ability to take action in a way that brings flow and fulfilment;...
by Marion Rose | Apr 27, 2020 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Conditioning, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Outrage, Parenting Paradigm, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Rage, Tantrums, Tantrums, The Willingness Practice, Unwillingness, Will, Willingness
I believe we are being invited to shift the domination paradigm of the past 2000 years. As mothers (and fathers), there are two key ways we can do this – to reclaim our sacred power, and to support our children in staying connected with their...
by Marion Rose | Apr 23, 2020 | Aggression, Choice, Claim Your Feminine Power, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Love and Will, Neo No, Outrage, Parenting Paradigm, Planet, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Emergence, The Willingness Practice, Will, Willingness
Hello dear friends, I have been noticing something in the field in the past few days… I have suddenly felt a really strong calling to stand up and speak a big NEO NO to power-over and coercion – in particular, towards children and in the...
