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 | 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 | Nov 16, 2017 | Aggression, Attachment Play, Aware Parenting, Cooperation, Crying, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Presence and Present Time, Present Time, Rage, Siblings
Hello! If attachment play is new to you, you might like to look at my free ebook on it HERE. If you’re already familiar with it, I wonder if you’ve thought about it operating at three different levels. This is how I think of it. CONNECTION AND CHOICE LEVEL...
by Marion Rose | Sep 12, 2017 | Aware Parenting, Aware Parenting and Sleep, Babies, Connected Crying, Connection, Loving Limits and Attachment Play, Introduction to Aware Parenting, Sleep and Aware Parenting
Hello again! I did a FB live on Saturday, all about sleep from an Aware Parenting perspective. You can watch it HERE. (I’m going to do a sleep Q and A FB live soon too; so if you have sleep and AwP questions, come along and ask on my FB page HERE.) I’ve also made a...
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...
