If you saw two children in a park, and one was hitting the other one with a stick, would you just watch it happening, not do anything to stop it, and just listen to the child’s feelings afterwards? If the stick-hitting was happening day in and day out, would you still keep watching and not […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
When children have a lot of painful feelings bubbling to the surface that they’re needing help to express, they will often start acting in agitated ways. They might repeatedly ask for something, and when we give it to them, they want something else. They might having a ‘whining’ tone, and whatever we do to help […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
Human beings are so wise. Whether we’re a child or an adult, if we suddenly start crying or raging in response to something that is clearly very small, then it tells us that the crying is about the past, not the present. This is a core understanding in Aware Parenting. With children, there is no […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
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
Have you ever wondered what Aware Parenting instructors know and understand in order to mentor parents? If so, I invite you to read on: A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF AWARE PARENTING: We have a deep understanding of all of the philosophy of Aware Parenting, in each of the three aspects: attachment-style parenting; non-punitive […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
In March 2025, I will have been an Aware Parenting instructor for 20 years. In that journey of working with thousands of parents, and in my own 23 year practice of Aware Parenting and being friends with many people who practice Aware Parenting or who are Aware Parenting instructors, I’ve seen what is possible for […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
Over the past few weeks, I’ve received quite a few questions from people about The Marion Method. The two main questions have been about differentiating The Marion Method from Aware Parenting, and what I request of people if they want to share The Marion Method with others. I saw this as a powerful Message from […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method