by Marion Rose | Mar 20, 2025 | Aware Parenting, Attachment Play, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings
In what I call The Disconnected Domination Culture (which is not an Aware Parenting term), there is a focus on early independence. This cultural value means that in this culture, most parents are not taught about secure attachment. All babies and children have strong...
by Marion Rose | Mar 20, 2025 | Aware Parenting, Attachment Play, Cooperation
Is your child often unwilling to cooperate with toothbrushing? If so, do you ever feel frustrated, powerless, or overwhelmed? If so, I’m sending you so much love. Toothbrushing is often a particular place where both parents and children can feel lots of big...
by Marion Rose | Mar 4, 2025 | Aware Parenting, Attachment Play, Fear
Please note that I will be sharing about flooding and storms in this post. Here where I live in Mullumbimby, Northern NSW, we have severe weather warnings for later in the week, from the effects of Cyclone Alfred. This is almost three years to the week when we were...
by Marion Rose | Apr 13, 2023 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Sleep and Aware Parenting
Does your child get really playful before bed? Have you found yourself trying to calm them down, settle them, ‘make them’ relaxed? And do you find that perhaps they’re wriggling around in bed, apparently ‘fighting sleep,’ asking for loads...
by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting
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...
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!...
