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 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Fear
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 the deep trust it has in a child’s innate wisdom. A child’s system is designed to...
by Marion Rose | Feb 25, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Presence and Present Time, 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....
by Marion Rose | 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 Marion Rose | 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 Marion Rose | Nov 2, 2017 | Attachment Play, Choice, Compassion, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, The Willingness Practice, Understanding our children, Willingness
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...