by Marion Rose | Jul 4, 2019 | Aware Parenting, Connected Crying, Culture
This is a bit longer than my usual posts, and comes in three parts! FACILITATING TRUE RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN THROUGH LISTENING TO CRYING AND RAGING AFTER STRESSFUL EVENTS There is a lot of talk nowadays about how to help children be resilient. ...
by Marion Rose | Jul 4, 2019 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connected Crying, Sleep and Aware Parenting, Tantrums
You may have noticed that I’ve been writing a lot about the physiological effects of crying, tantrums, laughter, play, shaking and sweating last week. Physiology is not my area of expertise, particularly not psychoneuroimmunology – so I asked a dear...
by Marion Rose | Jul 3, 2019 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting
When our child doesn’t do what we want, or keeps on doing something that we don’t want, there are three main options we have in terms of power. We can feel powerlessness, which often means frustrated too, and we then either give up on getting our needs met,...
by Marion Rose | Jul 5, 2018 | Feelings, Inner Loving Father, Inner Loving Mother, Inner Loving Presence Process, Psychospiritual Parenting, Self-Compassion for Parents, True self
A child’s true nature is love. So why do they sometimes act in ways that don’t seem loving? Well, they need two main things to help them stay connected with their innate lovingness: A loving and compassionate environment AND Support to express painful feelings...
by Marion Rose | Nov 17, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Connection, Control Patterns, Crying, Repression, Repression mechanisms, Tantrums
Hello! I did a FB live on this today. You can watch it HERE. So, repression mechanisms! Pretty much anything can become a repression mechanism, but common ones in children are things like: thumb sucking eating when upset hair twirling nose picking sucking on...
by Marion Rose | Nov 16, 2017 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Cooperation, Crying, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Presence and Present Time, Present Time, Rage, Siblings
Hello! If attachment play is new to you, you might like to look at my free ebook on it HERE. If you’re already familiar with it, I wonder if you’ve thought about it operating at three different levels. This is how I think of it. CONNECTION AND CHOICE LEVEL...
