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 | Feb 28, 2020 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Colonised, Conditioning, Control Patterns, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Evolving Through Parenting, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Parenting Paradigm, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Sleep and Aware Parenting, Tantrums, Tantrums
If you experienced not being heard, or not being understood, or not being loved just for being you as a child, you probably remember how painful that is. Remembering how we felt as a child can be powerful to help us put ourselves in our child’s shoes and...
by Marion Rose | Feb 27, 2020 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Crying, Evolving Through Parenting, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Repression mechanisms, Sleep and Aware Parenting
I’m so incredibly grateful for Aware Parenting. I feel moved as I look at old photos and reflect back on 18 years of parenting (this picture is from 10 years ago). When I came across Aware Parenting when I was pregnant with my daughter 18 years ago, I...
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 23, 2020 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course, Aware Parenting Stories, Introduction to Aware Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings
18 years ago, I sat outside a mothers’ group, with my baby daughter, and cried and cried. I was longing to meet other mothers who were as passionate about Aware Parenting as I was. I still remember that exact moment, because it was when my longing...
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,...
