by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Feb 25, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings
I was doing a FB Live on my Marion Rose, Ph.D., Mothering Mentor page last night, and I came up with a concise (ish) way of thinking about feelings – of our babies, children and ourselves. If any of us are experiencing feelings like overwhelm, frustration, loss,...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Feb 24, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Aware Parenting Virtual Village, Control Patterns, Fear, Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Presence Process, Sweet Spots, Terror, The balance of attention
Hello! Last week I got flooded by feelings of terror. What’s my definition of flooding? It can often be when very old and big feelings from the past come up in the present AND either we don’t have enough sense of emotional support – a sense of...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 24, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Repression
Hello again! I wonder if you’ve ever thought very much about what distraction is. For example, if your child is upset and you distract him with a snack, what actually happens? Distraction really means that we take his attention away from his upset...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Jun 20, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connected Crying, Control Patterns, Sleep and Aware Parenting
Hello! I made a chart and video about Aware Parenting, babies and sleep, and I thought you might enjoy them. What I love about Aware Parenting is that it has such a deep trust in babies and their own innate capacity to know what they need. In our culture, we tend to...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Connected Crying, Control Patterns, Screens
Hello! I wonder how it would be if we looked at screens as neutral things, that can be used in ways that are “nasty” or “nice”! (I don’t really like that language, but I thought it would be helpful to bring some emotional charge to this!)...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Screens
We really are traveling new terrain here. Although screens in the form of TVs have been around for a long time, and children have been playing computer games since the 1980’s, the speed of change has picked up really quickly in recent years. The first iPhone...
