by Marion Rose | Mar 9, 2015 | Control Patterns
The longer I’ve been experimenting with Aware Parenting, the more I am appreciating the intricacies of control patterns. At first I wanted to get rid of them all; not only my own and my children’s, but everyone else’s too. Now I see appreciation as a vital step in...
by Marion Rose | Mar 9, 2015 | Control Patterns
MBR: “Hello, this is Marion Badenoch Rose (MBR) and Chiara Rossetti, (CR), and recently we’ve been having a discussion about control patterns. Below is the first part of our discussion: Chiara, in response to my article “Two ways of responding to our...
by Marion Rose | Mar 9, 2015 | Control Patterns
When I first started Aware Parenting with my daughter, over 10 years ago now, my aim was to bring her up so she was totally free from any control patterns. My thoughts about control patterns have changed somewhat in the ten intervening years! And now I see that Aware...
by Marion Rose | Mar 9, 2015 | Control Patterns
Control patterns When I first came across Aware Parenting ten years ago, I didn’t much like the term “control patterns”, especially it’s use of the word “control.” I now see it as an apt term, as I think that one of the unwitting reasons we use control patterns is to...
