by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | 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 lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Aug 18, 2015 | Loving Limits
Hello again, I am so loving writing every day. I’ve been wanting to write more for so long, and to find that I can get up early every morning and write (after I’ve taken the dog for a walk) is such a deep pleasure for me! I’ve been wanting to write...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Aug 4, 2015 | Aware Parenting, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Loving Limits, Loving Limits and the sweet spot
When my children were younger, I used to use loving limits quite a lot with them. Now that they are older, I don’t use loving limits often. I’m much more likely to go for connection and attachment play. But last night, I did use loving limits with my...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Mar 10, 2015 | Loving Limits and the sweet spot
In one way of looking at parenting, we can label it as either permissive, authoritarian, or democratic: Permissive (meeting their child’s needs and not our own) Authoritarian (meeting our needs and not our child’s) With Aware Parenting, we strive for something in...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Mar 10, 2015 | Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play
I often say to parents, and have written elsewhere here on my website, that whenever we are in a challenging situation with our child, we have three choices: Pure connection; connection plus loving limits, or connection plus laughter play. I find it really helpful to...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Mar 10, 2015 | Evolving as an Aware Parent
The idea of the sweet spot just came to me a few years ago – it’s like the sweet spot on a racquet, when you hit the ball or shuttlecock in just the exact place and it flies true. The balance of attention in Aware Parenting is that exact point where the balance of the...
