by Marion Rose | Jul 16, 2019 | Aware Parenting, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting
1. Remember that our children naturally want to cooperate. If they aren’t cooperating, there’s something important going on for them that we need to understand and address before they can return to their natural willingness to cooperate. 2. Listen to what you...
by Marion Rose | Jul 11, 2019 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power Portal Process, Power-with in Parenting
How many of your most painful parenting moments involved you feeling powerless? Powerlessness is deeply painful and can come from thoughts, present moment needs or past feelings. 1. Thoughts ~ Were you telling yourself things like, “I can’t do this...
by Marion Rose | Jul 5, 2019 | Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Self-Compassion for Parents
We are at the tail end of a long long time of power-over in parenting, and a new paradigm of power-with is coming into the world. In this transition phase, most of us are at the intersection of these two paradigms. In the old paradigm, parents, who have...
by Marion Rose | Jul 4, 2019 | Power and Powerlessness in Parenting, Power-with in Parenting, Psychospiritual Parenting
We are at the intersection of an old paradigm of power and a new paradigm of power, and there are three key places where we can see this – in politics, in partnership and in parenting. For so long in politics, it’s been about those with the most economic...
