by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Feb 21, 2020 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Breast-feeding, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Compassion, Connected Crying, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Control Patterns, Cooperation, Feelings, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Parenting Paradigm, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Screens, Self-Compassion for Parents, Sleep and Aware Parenting, Tantrums
As parents, when we have access to a compassionate understanding that all children have feelings to express as a result of daily stresses and bigger challenges, and we have enough emotional capacity to listen with loving presence to their feelings,...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Feb 15, 2020 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connected Crying, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Crying, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Sleep and Aware Parenting
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 is the deep trust it has in a child’s innate wisdom. A child’s psyche, body...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Jul 4, 2019 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connected Crying, Sleep and Aware Parenting, Tantrums
You may have noticed that I’ve been writing a lot about the physiological effects of crying, tantrums, laughter, play, shaking and sweating last week. Physiology is not my area of expertise, particularly not psychoneuroimmunology – so I asked a dear...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Oct 9, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Breast-feeding, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Babies, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Mirroring, Needs and Control Patterns, Nourish Your Needs, Repression, Repression mechanisms
Hello! I’d like to start with: My journey with feelings and repressing feelings. I’d love to share my own journey with this over the years. When I trained as a psychospiritual psychotherapist in the 1990’s, I learnt all about feelings and addictions and...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 12, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Connected Crying, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Sleep and Aware Parenting
Hello again! I did a FB live on Saturday, all about sleep from an Aware Parenting perspective. You can watch it HERE. (I’m going to do a sleep Q and A FB live soon too; so if you have sleep and AwP questions, come along and ask on my FB page HERE.) I’ve also made a...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Apr 28, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connection, Presence and Present Time, Present Time, Understanding our children
Hello! Behaviourism had a big effect on parenting; particularly the beliefs that: 1. Children need to be told how to behave in ways that we want them to; 2. We need to give them ‘attention’ when they are doing things that we want them to do...
