by Marion Rose | Nov 9, 2016 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Compassion, Evolving Through Parenting, Healing From the Past, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Repression, Screens, Self-Compassion for Parents
Hello! Have you read The Velveteen Rabbit? “Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become...
by Marion Rose | Oct 3, 2016 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Compassion, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Teenagers
Hello! I’m fascinated in learning to understand human beings, and as part of that I sometimes find myself curious about the lives of the famous, and in particular, their parenting styles. And I’ve found myself reading about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...
by Marion Rose | 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 Marion Rose | Sep 20, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Crying, Evolving as an Aware Parent, Loving Limits, Loving Limits and the sweet spot, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Rage, Repression, Siblings, Sweet Spots, Tantrums
Hello again! Today my kids and I went for a lovely walk on the beach. When we got home, we started setting up two new games we got – one is tennis on a stick and the other is football on a stick. My daughter was doing the lion’s share, and my son was...
by Marion Rose | Sep 19, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Compassion, Conditioning, Connection, Evolving Through Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, True self
Hello! Today I took my 14 year old daughter and 10 year old son to a homeschooling board-game meet-up. We arrived and my son said he didn’t want to join in – in fact he had said all along that he didn’t really want to go! We went back outside,...
by Marion Rose | Jun 29, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting for ourselves, Celebrating ourselves as mothers, Compassion, Evolving as an Aware Parent, Evolving Through Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Self-Compassion for Parents
Hello!If you are practicing Aware Parenting, I wonder how you have changed, and how your perspective about Aware Parenting has changed, since you started practising Aware Parenting?I remember clearly, more than fourteen years ago, when I started practising Aware...
