by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Aware Parenting Stories
This story begins in November 2003 when my eldest daughter Julia was just 14 months old. It had been a few months that she had started biting and hitting and becoming very upset if I would be too slow in getting her breakfast ready each morning. I noticed that she...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | Aware Parenting Stories
I first heard of aware parenting through a friend while pregnant with my son who is now 2 years old. She was helping to promote Aletha Solter’s Australian tour and I was lucky enough to attend a one day workshop. Having enjoyed the workshop, I bought the book...
by Marion Rose | Mar 11, 2015 | My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings
When I first started practising Aware Parenting ten years ago, when my daughter was a baby, I wanted to meet an older child who had been brought up with Aware Parenting principles and practices. I had heard stories from Aletha Solter about her own children who were...
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...
