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 ‘good’. Behaviourism believed that children needed to be taught through punishments, […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
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 attachment needs, because those are the safety instincts that our hunter-gatherer […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
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 feelings: Parents, because we are wanting our child to have healthy teeth, […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
Please note that I will be sharing about flooding and storms in this post. Here where I live in Mullumbimby, Northern NSW, we have severe weather warnings for later in the week, from the effects of Cyclone Alfred. This is almost three years to the week when we were deeply affected by flooding. If you’re […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method