by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings
My mum helped me deepen my understanding about babies when my second child was a small baby. This, despite the fact that I’d been studying babies and children for the previous 19 years! I have found, after studying Aware Parenting, and through parenting, and giving...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings
By Marion Badenoch Rose, PhD I always thought I was breaking new ground with my parenting. But recently, I’ve been realising how much the ground was prepared by my own parents. Tears came to my eyes as I read a quote at the beginning of Naomi Aldort’s book, “Raising...
by Marion Rose | Mar 10, 2015 | My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings
Pregnant and pondering about practising Aware Parenting with my new baby, the one thing I wanted to avoid was breast-feeding becoming a control pattern again. I had fed my daughter Lana very frequently for the first three months, even though I loved the idea of...
by Marion Rose | Mar 10, 2015 | The importance of Aware Parenting community
Listening to babies and children with full presence is not something widely practised in the mainstream. Many of us began Aware Parenting without ever having witnessed a parent holding a crying baby whose needs were met with presence and calmness, without distraction....
by Marion Rose | Mar 10, 2015 | The importance of Aware Parenting community
Last week I left my quiet hometown of Mullumbimby, in Northern NSW, and travelled to the big smoke of Sydney to offer four days of Aware Parenting consultations and an Aware Parenting workshop. The whole experience was full of inspiration, connection and community. I...
by Marion Rose | Mar 10, 2015 | Joy and Attachment Play
When I came across Aware Parenting (www.awareparenting.com) nine years ago, I had spent a lot of the previous decade training as a psychotherapist. I was really drawn to the Aware Parenting idea of listening to my baby’s feelings. After nearly ten years of receiving...
