by Marion Rose | Feb 14, 2020 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Choice, Connection, Cooperation, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Unwillingness
I often give the following example to parents when I talk about children and cooperation. If you were in a job, and your ‘boss’ came to you and said in a cold tone, with a tense body posture, and without looking at you; “Right, today you have to do this...
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 | Apr 28, 2017 | Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Connection, Presence and Present Time, Present Time, Understanding our children
Hello! Behaviourism had a big effect on parenting; particularly the beliefs that: 1. Children need to be told how to behave in ways that we want them to; 2. We need to give them ‘attention’ when they are doing things that we want them to do...
by Marion Rose | Feb 27, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Celebrating ourselves as mothers, Community, Connection, Evolving as an Aware Parent, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Understanding our children
Hello! Seeing this picture of Sunny with the world has inspired me to write about why I think our parenting is so valuable. (And before I write more, I want to invite you to refrain from hitting yourself with emotional sticks. All the things that I talk about...
by Marion Rose | Nov 2, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Connection, Presence and Present Time, Present Time
Hello! I wonder if you’ve noticed that one of the things that affects your child’s feelings and behaviour more than anything else is present connection? Have you noticed that if you tend not to be having so much connection with your child, or...
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,...
