by Marion Rose | Apr 30, 2025 | Aware Parenting, Aggression, Attachment Play, Conditioning, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Crying, Culture, Dissociation, Feelings, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Parenting Paradigm, The balance of attention
There are many different beliefs about why children hit, and based on those beliefs, what the most helpful response to a hitting child is. Old religious paradigms believed that children were innately evil or bad and needed to be shamed and punished into being...
by Marion Rose | Mar 20, 2025 | Aware Parenting, Attachment Play, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings
In what I call The Disconnected Domination Culture (which is not an Aware Parenting term), there is a focus on early independence. This cultural value means that in this culture, most parents are not taught about secure attachment. All babies and children have strong...
by Marion Rose | Apr 26, 2023 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Colonised, Crying, Disconnected Domination Culture (DDC), Dissociation, Relaxation
As a preface, as with all my work, I invite you to be deeply compassionate with yourself as you read this, and to put down any of what I call ‘guilt sticks.’ Given that, let’s continue… I imagine you’ve found that if you’re feeling...
by Marion Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Aware Parenting, Baby carrying and carriers, Colonised, Conditioning, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation
I wrote this in 2021 and feel called to share it with you now! I wonder if you’ve read The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff? I read it in 1992, and it was a big turning point in my understanding of the disconnected domination culture. I was doing my Ph.D. at the...
by Marion Rose | Feb 6, 2021 | Colonised, Connected Crying, Crying, Culture, Decolonisation, Domination Culture, Gaia, Non-violent Communication, Psychospiritual Emergence
Grief, loss and tears – what might we be being called to? Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been noticing lots of grief and loss in the field – in 1-1 sessions, in group calls, in courses and trainings. I wonder if you have been feeling grief and loss...
by Marion Rose | Mar 18, 2020 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Compassion, Connected Crying, Crying, Culture, Fear, Feelings, Feelings, Healing From the Past, Highly Sensitive, Highly Sensitive Child, Inner Loving Mother, Terror, The balance of attention, Will
Have you been feeling fear recently? How about your child/ren? Fear has been a familiar face to me; as a Highly Sensitive person, who was separated from my mother for 5 weeks after birth, in a Highly Sensitive and worried lineage, and in a culture and a...
