How to help your child stop hitting

How to help your child stop hitting

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...
Sleep and Aware Parenting

Sleep and Aware Parenting

  Sleep and Aware Parenting (you can see the map and chart HERE).   Sleep is a natural physiological mechanism.   If you have seen families in indigenous cultures, you might see something very different with sleep to what we see in colonised cultures....
Reducing repression, aggression and agitation in children

Reducing repression, aggression and agitation in children

  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,...
Playing before sleep

Playing before sleep

  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...
How to help your child be freer to be willing to cooperate with you!

How to help your child be freer to be willing to cooperate with you!

Hello! Would you love to help your child to be freer to be willing to cooperate with you? In order to help them, we need to understand WHY they don’t cooperate at times. From my perspective, a child’s true nature has what I call the 3 ‘C’s...