Toothbrushing!

Toothbrushing!

Causes of children not being willing to cooperate with teeth brushing: pent-up feelings of powerlessness, frustration or fear. Solution: Nonsense Play and power-reversal games. There are lots of different versions of these games that you can use! One is the...
Cooperation!

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!...
Why Attachment Play is the opposite of behaviourism

Why Attachment Play is the opposite of behaviourism

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...

The Neo Yield and the Neo No

THE MARION METHOD, THE NEO NO AND THE NEO YIELD – PART ONE The next piece of Marion Method theory and practice is coming to me, via a Message from Life (where else!?) This work is about the evolution of our capacity to respond to what we perceive as a threat....
The three causes of fear

The three causes of fear

  Have you been feeling fear recently? How about your child/ren?   Fear has been a familiar face to me; as a Highly Sensitive person, who was separated from my mother for 5 weeks after birth, in a Highly Sensitive and worried lineage, and in a culture and a...