by Marion Rose | Mar 20, 2025 | Aware Parenting, Attachment Play, Cooperation
Is your child often unwilling to cooperate with toothbrushing? If so, do you ever feel frustrated, powerless, or overwhelmed? If so, I’m sending you so much love. Toothbrushing is often a particular place where both parents and children can feel lots of big...
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 | 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 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 | Nov 1, 2017 | Inner Loving Mother, Self-Compassion for Parents, Willingness
Hello! Yesterday I was in the middle of something and my son asked me to do something for him, and as I went to do it, I tripped on a chair. And I recognised this. It’s when I don’t check in with myself and my willingness before I respond to their...
