by Marion Rose | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Screens
Hello! Do you sometimes feel confused, frustrated, powerless, fed up, or just plain exhausted around screen time for your children? Sometimes we can find it hard to think clearly about screens for children, and ourselves. There’s so many possibilities of...
by Marion Rose | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Screens
Hello! If you have any screens in your home, including an iPhone or Android phone, then you will be making choices about how you use them. For example, whether to get an alert when you receive a text, or an email, or a Facebook message. We make choices about our...
by Marion Rose | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Connected Crying, Control Patterns, Screens
Hello! I wonder how it would be if we looked at screens as neutral things, that can be used in ways that are “nasty” or “nice”! (I don’t really like that language, but I thought it would be helpful to bring some emotional charge to this!)...
by Marion Rose | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Nourish Your Needs, Screens
Hello! You’re looking at a screen! You’re reading this, and I wonder how you are feeling! ***** Why did you choose to read this? Are you scrolling through quickly? When will you get off the screen? How will you decide? I’m sure that at times you have...
by Marion Rose | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Loving Limits, Screens
Hello! If you know me already, you know that, Compassion for ourselves as parents is really important to me. The whole screens issue is something we need oodles of self-compassion for! Aware Parenting can be challenging at times; finding ways to meet our...
by Marion Rose | Sep 13, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Screens
We really are traveling new terrain here. Although screens in the form of TVs have been around for a long time, and children have been playing computer games since the 1980’s, the speed of change has picked up really quickly in recent years. The first iPhone...
