Podcast appearances and mentions of Aletha Solter

Welcome back to another episode in the series about embracing imperfection in Aware Parenting. In today's episode I am talking with Gwen Dunlop from Ontario Canada. Gwen is mother of an adult daughter, a violinist, a yoga teacher, an animal advocate, a qualified and experienced ESL teacher, a certified Facilitator of Self-Healing, a certified Aware Parenting Instructor for a long time. She lives off grid and is passionate about sustainability. In this episode Gwen shares how she found Aware Parenting and how motherhood was a portal to start the painful process of releasing and healing her own childhood trauma. She shares how powerful Aware Parenting has been, both in her family and in her wider work and connections in her community to bring more emotional safety. She shares the challenges of coming to Aware Parenting later and how she has supported herself to deeply understand that any mistakes can be healed. We talk about the power of attunement, connection and contingency play. Gwen shares some of the ways that she supports herself and we discuss the power of Aletha Solter's amazing work to change the world. If you would like to connect with Gwen, her website is www.gwendunlop.ca If you would like support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, please contact me at support@awareparenting.com.au

In this episode of the Aware Parenting Podcast, which is part of the Foundations of Aware Parenting series, I discuss separation anxiety. I delve into the history and current usage of the term and I contrast Aware Parenting's understanding of separation anxiety with Classical Attachment Parenting's understanding. I explore various causes of separation anxiety, including developmental stages, a need for safety, accumulated feelings, past unhealed separation trauma, and the parent's own past unhealed separation trauma. I also emphasise the effect of cultural beliefs on the understanding of separation anxiety and, as always, I offer lots of compassion to parents and children who are experiencing separation anxiety. I provide practical suggestions, such as the use of separation games and listening to crying and raging, to help both parents and children experience more connection, safety, and healing. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction to Aware Parenting 00:26 Understanding Separation Anxiety 02:24 Cultural influences on Parenting 06:52 Causes of, and Responses to, Separation Anxiety 25:59 Healing Through Separation Games 40:10 The Influence of a Parent's own Separation Trauma 41:53 Conclusion and Resources If you want to learn more about separation anxiety, I wrote a free ebook, which you can access here: https://marion-rose.myflodesk.com/gfm8bc3qf5 I also recommend reading these books by Aletha Solter, PhD.: Cooperative and Connected Healing Your Traumatized Child Tears and Tantrums The Aware Baby And these books by me: I'm Here and I'm Listening The Emotional Life of Babies All of Your Feelings are Welcome If you want to learn more about separation games, one of the nine types of attachment play, you might feel called to do my Attachment Play Course, which you can find here: http://www.attachmentplaycourses.com/join-in I'm also creating a mini course on separation anxiety. You'll be able to find that on my website. You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net and my books at: https://marionrose.net/books/ You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/theawareparentingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

In this episode, which is the second in my series of the foundations of Aware Parenting, I talk about helping children cooperate with toothbrushing. I share about my own journey with my teeth and mouth, and how I passed down some of that trauma to my children, and how that affected their willingness with toothbrushing. I talk about the three reasons why children may not be willing to cooperate with toothbrushing, including trauma related to their mouths, and what we can do to tend to each of those three reasons. I offer suggestions for how to respond to each of those three reasons, including attachment play suggestions. If you want to learn more about attachment play, I highly recommend 'Attachment Play' by Aletha Solter, PhD, and my Attachment Play Course: http://www.attachmentplaycourses.com/join-in You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net and my books at: https://marionrose.net/books/ You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/theawareparentingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

In this episode, I talk with Alex Letham, who is the mother of a 12 year old son, Miles. Alex did my Attachment Play Course 10 years ago, when I first created it, and I still share her testimonial and the games she and Miles made up, all these years later. In the episode, Alex shares about the conversation where she asked about tantrums and her dear friend shared about Aware Parenting. Then we had a lovely conversation about attachment play. Alex talks about her grandmother has an incredible ability to play with children, and until learning about attachment play, she didn't think she'd also be able to do that. We talk about how Aware Parenting supports children, parents, and the relationship between the two throughout the tween and teen years. Alex shares about how attachment play helped her son prepare for some surgeries he had, as well as for healing afterwards. She also explains how Miles healed from fear he felt before performances playing the trumpet using attachment play and listening to feelings. She also talks about how doing attachment play helped Miles be willing to eat more vegetables, but also how important it is to not use attachment play to try to get children to do what we want them to. She gives an example of how she trusted his food choices. We also talk about how helpful attachment play is for children and teens learning new things, and how both nonsense play and power-reversal games are so helpful. Alex shares about the power of attachment play when tweens are going through adolescence. She also offers games to play for when we're feeling exhausted, and also for when our big feelings are starting to bubble up. If you want to find out more about attachment play, I highly recommend reading Aletha Solter, PhD's book 'Attachment Play": http://www.awareparenting.com/attachmentplay.html If you want to find out more about my Attachment Play Course, you can do that here: http://www.attachmentplaycourses.com/join-in You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net and my books at: https://marionrose.net/books/ You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/theawareparentingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

In this short episode, I invite you to join me in my celebrations of 20 years as an Aware Parenting instructor! I'm so grateful to Aletha Solter, PhD, for creating Aware Parenting, and for her ongoing guidance and support. Thank you to everyone who has ever read any of my posts, listened to any of my podcast episodes, done any of my courses or trainings, come to any of my workshops, read any of my books, or had mentoring sessions with me. I love Aware Parenting, and I am so thankful for all the people I've met along the journey! Here's to another 20, 30, 40, 50 years as an Aware Parenting instructor, sharing this beautiful work with the world! If you're wanting to join my list as I share about all the offerings I will be offering to celebrate these 20 years, the link is here: https://marion-rose.myflodesk.com/htug7k7ruy Big love! You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net and my books at: https://marionrose.net/books/ You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/theawareparentingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

I'm so delighted to welcome Meg Rankin on to the podcast. Meg has been a Social Worker for 20 years, and still works in a tertiary hospital setting. She also has her own business offering Aware Parenting support, general counselling, birth debriefing, and supervision for care and health professionals. She also offers women's circles and mother blessings. Meg shares about how she'd known about Aware Parenting a long time before becoming a parent herself, because of being immersed in the parenting world in her work. Meg read The Aware Baby by Aletha Solter, PhD, and it changed the trajectory of her life. She talks about how Aware Parenting resonated deeply with her. Meg talks about the big journey from understanding and starting to listen to a baby's uncomfortable feelings whilst they cry in arms, to really diving deep into presence and attunement whilst listening to those feelings. We discuss the three different types of embodied experience that are so important for parents to go through in order to feel more comfortable with listening to their child's healing crying. Meg shares about her own journey to dive deeply into having an Aware Parenting community. We talk about the difference between dissociation and deep relaxation, and Meg shares how the penny dropped for her when she saw how deeply relaxed her daughter was after sharing her big feelings in Meg's loving arms. Meg shares about how the seed to become an instructor was planted, and also shares her experience of how supportive all the Aware Parenting instructors are of each other. Meg also talks about her understanding gathered through all the work she's done with women with drug and alcohol use, and the process of feeling pain that the control patterns have suppressed. You can find out more about Meg and her offerings at: https://www.instagram.com/meg.rankin.counselling/ and https://www.megrankin.com.au/

Send us a textIn this second interview with developmental psychologist and parenting expert Aletha Solter, Ph.D., we tackle the tricky issues of avoiding resenting, feeling guilty, and parental self-care.Dr. Aletha Solter is the founder and director of the Aware Parenting Institute and author of six books. For more information: http://www.awareparenting.com/ and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/423088.Aletha_J_SolterDyslexia Journey has conversations and explorations to help you support the dyslexic child in your life. Content includes approaches, tips, and interviews with a range of guests from psychologists to educators to people with dyslexia. Increase your understanding and connection with your child as you help them embrace their uniqueness and thrive on this challenging journey!Send us your questions, comments, and guest suggestions to parentingdyslexiajourney@gmail.comAlso check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@ParentingDyslexiaJourney

When I added up the listens this morning, there were 3,033,364! Woohooo! Thank you SO much to everyone who has listened, whether that was to 1 episode, or all of them! And a very big thank you to Lael, who was the co-host for the first 123 episodes. I'm also so grateful to Aletha Solter, PhD, the Founder and creator of Aware Parenting. In this episode, I talk about the past episodes, the different series, and what's coming in 2025! If you're wanting to listen to past festive season episodes, those are: Episode 30: Festive challenges Episode 120: Christmas feelings Episode 163: The opposite of overwhelm this festive season To celebrate the three million, I'll be announcing a sale! Big love and gratitude! Marion xoxox You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net and my books at: https://marionrose.net/books/ You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/theawareparentingpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Aware Parenting Stories podcast! I am so excited to share this celebration of Aware Parenting. I invited anyone who felt called to share, to come and have a conversation about what Aware Parenting means to them and the effect practising Aware Parenting has had on their family. I am so grateful to Lucy, Sarah, Belinda, Vicki, and Vivian for taking the time to join this conversation and share some of what they love about Aware Parenting. I hope you find their stories and reflections to be inspiring and helpful. Thank you to everyone who has given up their time to come on my podcast over the last 100 episodes and to everyone who has listened and shared the podcast, and messaged me about it. And a huge thank you to Dr. Aletha Solter for her amazing work, research and expertise about humans. Thank you also to Marion Rose for the wonderful way that she has supported me and hundreds of other parents to understand and embody this beautiful approach. If you would like support on your parenting journey, I am here for you and I encourage you to get in touch support@awareparenting.com.au Or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au/parenting-coaching/

In this episode I respond to a question from a listener who is thinking about taking her child out of school and wanting to know more about the connection between aware parenting and natural learning/homeschooling. I share some of the ways that I see aware parenting and homeschooling fitting together so well and some of the advantages that I perceive of not sending our children to school. If you want to learn more about my Aware Parenting and Natural Learning monthly online circle, please visit https://awareparenting.com.au/circles/ If you want to read my articles about homeschooling and aware parenting please visit https://awareparenting.com.au/articles/?_select_a_category=homeschoolingandnaturallearning If you want to listen to the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast with Marion Rose and myself, please visit https://soundcloud.com/awp-and-nl-podcast?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing To listen to other podcasts where I share about my journey with homeschooling, here's the resources page link https://awareparenting.com.au/certified-parent-coach/resources/ Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning can be found here http://www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm

This episode I talk about how to offer the balance of attention to our children and why this is necessary in order for them to release and heal from stress and trauma. I describe what the balance of attention is and how it works. I then offer lots of suggestions about how to give our children an embodied experience of safety and connection on the one hand, and connection to the past feelings of distress on the other in a way that then supports them to use their powerful natural recovery processes to heal. If you would like support on your parenting journey, I am here for you and I encourage you to get in touch support@awareparenting.com.au or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au/parenting-coaching/ To read Aletha Solter's book Healing your Traumatized Child, the link is here To read Marion Rose's book I'm Here and I'm Listenting, the link is here

We recorded this episode a few weeks ago. I'm so delighted to share this episode with Laura Pires Brammer. Laura is an Aware Parenting instructor in Germany, and she shares about her experience with Aware Parenting and sleep. She talks about the powerful connection she had with Aletha Solter's book 'The Aware Baby', and now she started to listen to her baby's healing-feelings after only reading a couple of pages. Laura explains so beautifully how she saw the differences in her daughter once she started practicing Aware Parenting – being more present during the day, more relaxed while sleeping, and sleeping for longer periods, as well as the beautiful connection and eye contact between the two of them. Laura then shares about the process of increasing her understanding of Aware Parenting and embodying the practices more and more. Laura talks about the deep inner work that Aware Parenting invited her to do, as is common for most of us practicing this way of parenting. She shares about the contrast between feeling the power of having this information, and the powerlessness of at times not knowing how to put it into practice. We then talk about now common it is that, once we start practicing Aware Parenting, our own unexpressed feelings from our own childhood come bubbling up to be heard. Laura talks about how a lot of her feelings bubbled up in the night time, and how, as a result, she saw improvements in her own sleep. We talk about the difference in ourselves between the sleep after crying or laughing, and the sleep after distracting and dissociating. Laura sharrd how different her experience was with sleep and listening to feelings with her second born daughter. I so highly recommend Laura's beautiful work. She works in English, German, and Dutch. You can find her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/laura.rpb and Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/laurapiresbrammer/ She has an offer called Magical Nights, for mothers with babies, who want to apply Aware Parenting to their sleep journey. She also has offerings for parents with Corinne Sprecher, another Aware Parenting instructor, about practicing and embodying Aware Parenting.

I'm grateful to one of my lovely mentees, who requested this episode, where I talk about some of the differences between Aware Parenting and Classical Attachment Parenting (a term created by me and adopted by Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting). Classical attachment parenting (CAP) refers to the original attachment parenting paradigm, which was first described by William and Martha Sears. The Aware Parenting (AwP) version of attachment parenting has several key differences from this original version. In this episode I talk about: Why people commonly make the change from CAP to AwP (frequent night waking being one of them). The three main differences between CAP and AwP. What people often notice the effects are of moving from CAP to AwP. These effects can include: Babies, toddlers and children sleep more restfully and calmly. If there are two parents, everyone can get their needs more. Clarity about understanding when to offer loving limits and why they're so important. They return to natural gentleness because of expressing healing-feelings. If you want to find out more, I recommend Aletha Solter's books including The Aware Baby and Tears and Tantrums. You can find information about her books at www.awareparenting.com My books, 'The Emotional Life of Babies' and 'I'm Here and I'm Listening" are also available on Amazon. I invite you to sign up for early bird information and my next book about Aware Parenting and sleep here: http://eepurl.com/8ifhn You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

Welcome back to a new episode where I talk about healing from stress and trauma through loving listening. I talk about what trauma is, what some of the sources of stress are for children and how these experiences affect children. I share how our children's bodies respond to stress and how the expression of feelings with loving support is a natural healing process. I talk about creating the necessary sense of emotional safety for healing to occur and what is not supportive for our children in this process. I share some very helpful quotes and descriptions from Dr Aletha Solter's book Healing your Traumatized Child. I also share lots of tips and advice about how to listen to our children in a way that supports healing and how to get that for ourselves too and how to explore and process what comes up for us when listening to feelings. If you want support to listen to your children and help them to heal from stress and trauma or if you want support to explore and release your own feelings, I am here for you.

Welcome to "Parenting the Intensity!"In this episode of "Parenting the Intensity," host Anouk is joined by guest Carrie Conrad, founder of Beating Disasters, to explore the challenging topic of dealing with emotionally intense children who engage in physically dangerous behavior. The conversation sheds light on the need for parents to approach restraint from a place of empathy and support, rather than control or punishment, while emphasizing the importance of safety and nonviolent parenting. Anouk and Carrie discuss the struggle of finding helpful resources for parents dealing with intense behaviors and highlight the crucial role of natural consequences, preventative measures, and emotional regulation in parenting. Stay tuned for valuable insights, practical advice, and helpful resources in this thought-provoking discussion on resilient and mindful parenting.3 Key Takeaways:1️⃣ How and When to use Restraints: Approach restraint from a place of service and support, rather than punishment or control. We emphasized the importance of turning to resources like Dr. Althea Solter's book "Tears and Tantrums" for valuable insights into understanding restraint from a gentle, respectful, and dignified perspective.2️⃣ Prioritize empathy and support : while implementing natural consequences and preventative measures for challenging behaviors in children, especially those prone to emotionally intense reactions. It's important to adapt parenting advice and resources to fit your own child and family's reality.3️⃣ Importance of parent's emotional regulation: Recognize the significant impact of a parent's emotional regulation on their child's behavior and practice self-care to model the importance of setting boundaries and prioritizing well-being. Teaching children about self-care and boundaries is crucial for their own emotional growth and development."Everybody wants control. But when it comes to physical safety and people or children being emotionally dysregulated or not in control of themselves, oddly enough, we give control to gain control."Connect with Carrie:Website: Www.beatingdisaster.comFacebook: Www.facebook.com/BeatingDisasterResources mentioned:Book tears and tantrum from Aletha Solter, Ph.D. founder and firector of The Aware Parenting Institute: https://www.amazon.ca/Tears-Tantrums-What-Babies-Children/dp/0961307366Daniel the Tigger for emotional regulation: https://pbskids.org/daniel/Make sure to subscribe to our podcast for future episodes and leave a rating and review, that helps us get in front of more parents. Don't forget to check out the resources mentioned on our website at www.parentingtheintensity.caJoin the "Parenting the Intensity Community" to find the right things that works for YOUR child and adapt them to YOUR reality.To be able to enjoy your life and kids, not always being afraid of the next outburstTake a deep breath, keep going, we're all in this together!Music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi from Pixabay

In this episode, I share an update on loving limits, after gaining lots of new clarity through the process of editing my latest best-selling book, 'I'm Here and I'm Listening'. and having conversations with Aletha Solter, PhD, the Founder of Aware Parenting. The update includes: The importance of giving information when offering a loving limit; The language we might use when offering loving limits; The three situations where we don't recommend offering loving limits. I will be updating all my courses with this information and will let you know when that happens. For now, I've updated my Loving Limits Deep Dive, and to celebrate the birth of 'I'm Here and I'm Listening', it's 50% off for the next week with the code: UPDATE (all in capital letters). The link is here: https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/loving-limits-deep-dive/ I am so willing for 'I'm Here and I'm Listening' to continue to be a best seller, and to reach the hands, hearts and minds of many many thousands of parents. If you'd like to support me with that, are you willing to share about the book, such as on social media? If you have been thinking of buying it, are you willing to buy it now or really soon, to support it to continue being a best seller? You can buy the paperback on Amazon by searching for 'I'm Here and I'm Listening' on the Amazon store in your country! Or send me a DM for the direct link! Big love xoxox www. marionrose.net

In this episode, I share about what you can do if your baby has learnt to suppress their feelings with feeding. If you haven't already, I invite you to listen to the previous episode, where I talked about how babies and children learn to suppress their feelings with food. I said I was going to talk about babies and children in this episode, but I'm separating them into two episodes - so the next episode will be about helping children who have learnt to suppress their feelings with food. I talk about breastfeeding because that's what I'm familiar with, but most of this is also transferrable to a baby having a bottle to suppress feelings. And you're so welcome here if you bottle feed. As with that last episode, I invite you to drop any guilt sticks (a Marion Method term) if you have often fed your baby when they had healing-feelings to express to you. I talk about: Why it's so understandable that we would feed our baby when they have healing-feelings to express; A recap on how we can tell if a baby has learnt to suppress their feelings with feeding; What can happen if a baby continues to suppress their feelings with feeding and food; Why having information is so important; Why having our own feelings heard it so vital too!; How we can observe what's going on for our baby; How to notice patterns and make sense of their cues; How we can offer loving limits; and The power of attachment play. I highly recommend The Aware Baby by Aletha Solter, and reading and re-reading chapter 3 on feeding, where she clearly explains how to differentiate between hunger and healing-feelings, and The Emotional Life of Babies, where I talk a lot about feeding, control patterns and observation. I'm opening up the doors for 6 and 12 months mentoring in 2024 very soon. Doors for the Aware Parenting Virtual Village are also opening soon. Keep an eye out on my socials or sign up for information about the early bird and my new books here: http://eepurl.com/8ifhn You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

In this episode, I talk about how babies and children learn to suppress their feelings with food and how we can prevent that or lessen those effects. I share about: The importance of self-compassion; Reassurance that this is one of the most common ways that babies and children suppress feelings; Whatever age your baby or child is, it's possible to help them relearn how to distinguish between hunger and upset feelings; Inviting you to connect in with yourself to see if this resonates; How eating to suppress feelings is often passed down in families; Understanding the two types of feelings - needs-feelings and healing-feelings; Why being able to differentiate true relaxation from dissociation is vital here; The spectrum of stress and trauma for babies; How common it is to feed a baby when we think they're hungry when they actually have healing-feelings; How they learn to interpret that the sensation of upset is hunger; Seeing things from the perspective of the baby; How and why control patterns develop early on; How babies learn to interpret healing-feelings as hunger; How we can tell if a baby is suppressing feelings through feeding; How to differentiate between hunger and healing-feelings; How we might distract children with food when they are toddlers or children; How can we tell that a child may be eating to suppress feelings; How we can prevent or lessen the likelihood a baby learns to suppress their feelings with food. In the next episode, I'll talk about what we can do to help a child who has already learnt to suppress their feelings with food. If you want to learn more, I recommend 'The Aware Baby' by Aletha Solter and 'The Emotional Life of Babies' by me! In my upcoming book,' I'm Here and I'm Listening', which is for parents of 1-8 year olds, I also talk a lot about this! You can find out about my work here: www.marionrose.net The Aware Parenting Virtual Village 2.0 is opening soon too! Keep an eye out on my socials or sign up for information about the early bird and my new books here: http://eepurl.com/8ifhn You can also find me here: https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ https://www.instagram.com/awareparenting/ www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

I'm so delighted that Carly Facius is back again! Carly is a Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care and is an Aware Parenting instructor. Carly has already been on two episodes of The Aware Parenting Podcast: Episode 149 on Communicating with babies and Episode 154 on Reclaiming our power through birth. I absolutely loved this conversation! We are sending so much love to any woman who gave up breastfeeding before they were ready. We discussed: How birth affects breastfeeding; What we can do in the hours after birth to support breastfeeding; The centrality of observing our baby; The research triangle of observation, information and listening to ourselves as parents; Why the parent is the expert; The importance of listening in to ourselves when we are given information about breastfeeding; Learning to trust yourself and trust your baby; How Aware Parenting is based on trusting a baby's innate wisdom; The de-conditioning process in Aware Parenting to unlearn all the ways we learnt to not trust ourselves and our innate wisdom and the wisdom of babies and children; How women often stop breastfeeding sooner than they want to because there is a lack of information or support; Doing what feels right for you in terms of breastfeeding; How any amount of continued breastfeeding benefits both baby and mother; The incredible intelligence of the human body and how breastmilk adapts to protect babies' health; Why mothers might worry that they don't have enough milk; The size of babies' stomachs as they get older; How I helped my son heal from the effects of his fast posterior birth as a newborn so that I could breastfeed him comfortably; How a lot of confusion about why babies come on and off the breast can be clarified when a mother understands Aware Parenting; What's really going on if a parent thinks that their baby is hungry but doesn't want to feed; How understanding Aware Parenting can prevent people from offering solids earlier than recommended; How the goal of introducing solids is building a healthy relationship with food; What parents can do in terms of Aware Parenting it they're thinking of introducing solids early to help their baby sleep more at night; How our culture likes to see babies as faulty or immature and Aware Parenting seens their innate wisdom that they are trying to help us understand; How instead, we can focus on observing our baby to see what they're really communicating; How important it is for us to have our feelings heard so we can actually see our baby's behaviour more clearly; How natural it is for our own feelings related to food from when we were babies will come up when our babies are feeding; How Aware Parenting can support mothers to continue breastfeeding for longer; How Aware Parenting can create more ease and enjoyment in every stage of the breastfeeding journey; Using limits and loving limits with breastfeeding; What happens if a mother is saying yes when she has a no to breastfeeding; How we do offer loving limits with breastfeeding but not solid foods; Supporting mothers to say yes to continuing breastfeeding if they want to, when they might be coerced to stop or not ready to stop; And to say no to a breastfeed their toddler if they have a no, either because of their own needs, or the toddler's; How the journey of breastfeeding invites mothers to connect with our yeses and noes and our innate wisdom and to support our babies to be deeply connected with their innate wisdom with food; Carly normally offers 1:1 sessions on breastfeeding and birth preparation and Aware Parenting but is 35 weeks pregnant and not working until next year. However, you can find Carly and her work at www.seedpodfamilies.com or at https://www.instagram.com/seed_pod_/ If you want to find out more about breastfeeding and Aware Parenting, I recommend The Aware Baby by Aletha Solter and The Emotional Life of Babies by me!

In our interview with developmental psychologist and parenting expert Aletha Solter, Ph.D., we discuss how stress might show up in your dyslexic child – and all children – at different ages, along with tips for how to handle it.Dr. Aletha Solter is the founder and director of the Aware Parenting Institute and author of six books. For more information: http://www.awareparenting.com/ and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/423088.Aletha_J_Solter. Dyslexia Journey has conversations and explorations to help you support the dyslexic child in your life. Content includes approaches, tips, and interviews with a range of guests from psychologists to educators to people with dyslexia. Increase your understanding and connection with your child as you help them embrace their uniqueness and thrive on this challenging journey!Dyslexia Journey has conversations and explorations to help you support the dyslexic child in your life. Content includes approaches, tips, and interviews with a range of guests from psychologists to educators to people with dyslexia. Increase your understanding and connection with your child as you help them embrace their uniqueness and thrive on this challenging journey!Also check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@ParentingDyslexiaJourney

In this episode, I talk about the self-connected approach to eating, which is officially called the self-demand approach to food or self-regulated eating in Aware Parenting. I talk about children's innate body wisdom in relation to food, and the interplay of that with them needing to learn about the place, family and culture they are born into. I share about what gets in the way of their connection with the sensations in their bodies, and specifically what we can do to help them stay connected with that intrinsic wisdom, or to reconnect back with it. I explain what can make that so hard for us, and what can help us with that. If you're wanting support with this, it's included in my Aware Parenting with Marion Course, https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/aware-parenting-with-marion-course/, and in my next book (I'm Here and I'm Listening) and in 1:1 mentoring. I also highly recommend reading Aletha Solter's book 'Cooperative and Connected' which has a chapter on eating and ailments.

At the end of this series on the effects of birth, I wanted to share an episode about how wonderful birth can be, and the effects of that on a family. In The Aware Baby, Aletha Solter talks about doing what we can to prepare for birth, and I wanted to offer some examples of that through this conversation with Carly Facius who is a Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care and is an Aware Parenting instructor. We both send you so much love and compassion to women who have had a traumatic birth and invite you to listen in to yourself and whether you might need to pause at any time. Please reach out for support if you do choose to listen and feelings come up for you. Carly shares her own background and the effects of that on seeing the beauty of birth – her mother is a midwife and was when she was a child, and actually was the only midwife in a very small country town. We talk about how we would all be seeing birth a lot if we lived in a healthy culture and what a difference that would make in this culture if we did. Carly shares about her experience of living in Bali and how birth there is an ordinary everyday event, and the cultural differences in terms of birth and how many people there often are with the birthing woman. She also shares about her own experience of giving birth, going in with the background and the positive imprints she had. She also talks about the power of being willing to receive support, and what an opportunty birthing can be for us in that. She shares about what it's like coming into parenting a newborn having had a powerful, transformative birthing experience. I share about my experience of birth and what a beautiful start it was to be practicing Aware Parenting. Carly shares about the expansion of capacity to tune in to your baby that can then happen and all the after effects of empowering births. We also talked about how important it is for parents who do have a stressful or traumatic birth to be so deeply compassionate with themselves when the whole process goes a bit awry. Carly explains that a lot of the common challenges in the early weeks and months often aren't as evident when people have an empowering birth experience. Birth can be a deeply transformative experience, both for women who give birth, but also to be alongside the birthing woman, or be an adoptive parent, there are so many ways for transformation to occur. Carly also talks about how she supports parents so they are more likely to have a powerful and transformative life experience, particularly in terms of undoing conditioning around knowing and asking for what they need and understanding how powerful they are. We also link this to Aware Parenting and helping children stay connected with their inner knowing and Carly talks about how we can model that to them while we're pregnant with them. I share about the birth video I watched hundreds of times before giving birth and Carly talks about inviting parents to focus on what they want and are willing for before birth. We finish talking about birth being an opportunity to see how powerful we are, to deeply reconnect with and trust our bodies. You can find out more about Carly and her work at www.seedpodfamilies.com or at https://www.instagram.com/seed_pod_/

I am so happy to be releasing another powerful conversation with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. In this episode we talk about how to practice Aware Parenting with our partner/the co-parent of our children. We share different ways that we can support our partner/co-parent to come on board with Aware Parenting. We discuss how we can often become a source of suppression for our children through breast-feeding control patterns and how we can encourage our partner/co-parent to create connection with our children, to be able to support them to release and heal too. We share some powerful words from the "Aware Baby" by Dr Aletha Solter and share how we have supported our partners and ourselves on this journey. If you would like to learn more about the Exploring Aware Parenting Community with Danni and Joss, please go to my website www.awareparenting.com.au/community . If you want to know more about Danni, please follow her on social media at Danni Willow or visit her website www.thewayofthewoman.com.au. If you would like to learn more from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au and follow me on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss.

In this episode I have the pleasure of talking with Yaelle Grinberg. Yaelle is a Child Psychologist, Montessori Educator and mother of one beautiful son. She supports parents in changing and shifting the family dynamic by translating children's behaviours in order to have their emotional and developmental needs met. In this episode Yaelle shares how she came to work as a parenting specialist, how she supports parents and how she applied her knowledge of Montessori principles to her work and her family. We discuss the importance of us doing our healing work. She shares the impact of our early childhood experienced and having our emotions dismissed as children on the adult we become. She talks about the significant power of receiving acknowledgement in healing our individual trauma, our cultural trauma and inter-generational trauma. Yaelle describes how we attune to our children so we can meet their needs, see them for who they truly are and develop close and loving foundational relationships with them. We talk about how we can support ourselves through parenthood. If you would like to learn more about Yaelle, her website is www.llcrparenting.com.au and follow her on Instagram at llcr.parenting.specialist. If you would like to join the workshop I am hosting by Dr Aletha Solter on Discipline without Punishments or Rewards, the link is here https://awareparenting.com.au/discipline-without-punishments-or-rewards-workshop/ If you would like to learn more from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd #consciousparenting #awareparentingstories #parentingpodcast #supportforparents #compassion #motherhoodjourney #listeningtofeelings #respectfulparenting #healing #trust #montessori

In this week's episode, I chat with Emma Rogers Dumas. She is an Aware Parenting Instructor of almost 10 years, the founder of Expanding Minds and a Mum of 2. Emma shares how she discovered Aware Parenting and how it transformed her daughter's sleep.We also discuss:- control patterns and what they are- releasing our own feelings, crying, raging and laughing- supporting our children at school drop off- becoming aware of our own feelings and how they can impact others- meeting our own needs so we can show up better for our children- challenges in motherhood and re-parenting ourselves- plus so much moreWhere to Find Emma:Website: Expanding Minds AustraliaFacebook: Emma Rogers DumasInstagram: @expandingmindsaustraliaResources:The Aware Baby by Aletha Solter

In this week's episode, the founder of The Aware Parenting Institute, developmental psychologist, Aletha Solter PhD provides answers to questions from the community. Aletha briefly shares how Aware Parenting came to be, before we dive into this episodes topic discussing insights, experience, research and our personal stories.In this episode you will discover:- can we differentiate between accumulated feelings/trauma and genetic factors- defining neurodiversity- why Aware Parenting can support all children- observing our children is a key component in Aware Parenting- tantrums and meltdowns- when children are "stuck" with their feelings - Aletha shares 4 reasons- the balance of attention and its role in healing- how a diagnosis can be helpful- plus so much moreWhere to Find Aletha:Website -  Aware Parenting InstituteFacebook - Aware Parenting InstituteBooks by Aletha Solter PhD:The Aware Baby Cooperative & Connected Tears & Tantrums Raising Drug Free Kids Attachment Play Healing Your Traumatized Child ABOUT ALETHA:Aletha Solter is a Swiss/American developmental psychologist who is recognized internationally as an expert on attachment, trauma, and non-punitive discipline. She studied with the Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she obtained a Master's degree in human biology. She then earned a PhD in psychology from the University of California . She has 2 adult children and 2 grandchildren.When her first child was born in 1977 (following a traumatic birth) she did not find any parenting books that advocated attachment-style parenting and non-punitive discipline while taking into account the impact of stress and trauma on children's development.  Her 6 books have been translated into many languages, and she has also written numerous articles for parents and professionals. In 1990 she founded The Aware Parenting Institute, which now has certified instructors in over 20 countries. Her goal is to help create a nonviolent world in which all children are allowed to attain their full potential. With the tools of Aware Parenting, she is confident that parents can raise their children to be competent, compassionate, nonviolent, and drug free. She also knows that parenting is a difficult job and that parents deserve recognition, information, and support.

In this episode, I talk about mild dissociation, how to differentiate it from relaxation, and why that makes a difference to sleep. I describe what mild dissociation is, why it happens, what the experience of it is, how we can tell if a baby or child is mildly dissociated, and how it affects sleep. I also share about the innate relaxation response and how supporting babies and children with this helps them feel more relaxed, and how their sleep is then different as a result. If you want to find out more about Aware Parenting, I invite you to come to my website at www.marionrose.net. If you want to understand more about the fight/flight/freeze response in relation to Aware Parenting, I recommend reading Aletha Solter's book Healing Your Traumatised Child.

This episode is part 1 of an exciting new series of conversations that I will be sharing with my wonderful friend and colleague Danni Willow. We co-run the Exploring Aware Parenting Community and work closely together in many spaces about Aware Parenting and felt called to share some of our many beautiful conversations about this paradigm, that we are both so passionate about. Danni is an Aware Parenting Instructor and mother to 2 gorgeous girls aged 6 and 4. She has been on the podcast before sharing her wisdom in episodes 5, 14 and 31. In this episode we talk about our backgrounds and lives before Aware Parenting and how these experiences have informed our understanding and practice of this approach. We describe the contrast between our early years and the early years of our children and some of the ways that we see the powerful impact on them of Aware Parenting them and re-parenting ourselves. We share honestly about some of the struggles from our past and how that shaped us in ways that were really challenging, both at the time and to unpack and heal from as adults. We talk about how grateful we are to Aletha Solter and to Marion Rose for this work and the impact it has on our children, on us and on the wider culture. If you would like to learn more about Danni, please follow her on social media at Danni Willow or visit her website www.thewayofthewoman.com.au. If you would like to learn. More from me please use this link to sign up for my mailing list https://awareparenting.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b0f3fda38d97c32be4d00a4aa&id=0c0521fedd or visit my website www.awareparenting.com.au and follow me on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss.

(Anglų k.) Klausimas, kokio santykio su vaikais norime, ne toks lengvas, kaip atrodo. Todėl šio pokalbio pašnekovė Dr. Aletha Solter, raidos psichologė, Aware parenting požiūrio kūrėja, kviečia žvelgti giliau - ne į vaikų elgesį, bet į jo priežastis. Kita perspektyva, kuri dažnai neįprasta, sukelianti nepatogumo ir abejonių, tačiau apdovanojanti giliais santykiais. Geriausias to įrodymas - jau suaugę pačios lektorės vaikai, kurie dalinasi, ką gi reiškia augti su Aware parenting ir kokius neįprastus pokyčius gyvenime tai atneša.  ⁠www.awareparenting.com⁠ Dalyvaukite intesyviose 4 val. dirbtuvėse su dr. Aletha Solter, kurios įvyks jau balandžio 16 d. viešbutyje Crown Plaza, Vilniuje. Bilietai: https://bit.ly/40FJoAo

In this episode of the podcast, I talk about Empathy Buddies. Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting recommends listening and support for parents in her books and I share the why and the how of this type of support. I discuss the 3 reasons for difficult behaviour in our parenting and how having an empathy buddy supports us to work through our thoughts and our feelings and to identify our unmet needs. I talk about how receiving and sharing compassionate listening with our EB increases our capacity to offer compassionate listening and play to our children and to practise all the other aspects of Aware Parenting. I share how to find an EB from the Aware Parenting community so there are shared and aligned values and understanding between you. I share the powerful value of having emergency EB's to reach out to on the days in parenting that we all experience at times when things feel horrible, to get us back on track. I share the power of modelling this to our children so they grow up to be adults who normalise feelings and reach out for support when they need it. I share how to set up an EB partnership, the different types of EB's, how to share and how to listen, so it is easier for us all to be the parent that we want to be. To learn more or to set up an EB please visit this group, set up by aware parenting instructor Carolina Valenica Coleman https://www.facebook.com/groups/2562318203992646/

Welcome back to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss the challenges of juggling everything in life by ourselves when we are pratising Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. We share how normal it is to find it really difficult to do work, to support our children's learning and to meet all the other demands of life, and to do so in isolation in our nuclear families in this culture. We share many of the powerful things that we have found to support ourselves to make it possible to thrive in our families, including: deconditioning ourselves, choosing to put down some balls, freeing ourselves from coercion and guilt and “shoulds”, organising our work around the other needs and priorities of our lives, reaching out for emotional and practical support and community from others on this path, and not comparing ourselves and our families to others. We share the strategies that we have found most helpful on this journey. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm Lots of love to you xx

In this episode of the podcast, I talk about how to support our children when they are being aggressive or hurtful. I acknowledge how hard it is when our children behave in these ways, biting, hitting, grabbin, hurting or shouting. I explain why children are sometimes aggressive and hurtful and what it tells us about what our children are feeling and needing. I explain the many ways that aggressive behaviour is misunderstood in our culture and how trauma and accumulated feelings push our children into hyperarousal which then can cause them to be aggressive. I describe in detail how Aware Parenting shows us how to support our children at these times by having a compassionate understanding of why they are aggressive, creating the emotional safety they need to heal, by listening to feelings, by offering attachment play, by having non-punitive discipline and by offering loving limits. I talk about how vital it is for us to get support too, to explore our beliefs, to receive listening to our feelings about the present and from our unhealed trauma from the past and to get our needs met. If you would like support to help your child with aggression, I offer 1 to 1 sessions where we can dive deep into all this. I highly recommend reading Aletha Solter's books, particularly Healing your Traumatised Child and Attachment Play.

In this episode of the podcast I have the pleasure of talking to Janie Spencer. Janie is a level 2 Aware Parenting instructor in France and the regional coordinator for France and French speaking Switzerland. She has been an instructor for over 20 years and has a 33 year old daughter, whom she raised with Aware Parenting. She has a Masters in Sociology of Emotions and, together with her colleague Gwenaëlle Ruella, she runs Place Des Emotions – an association providing individual and group trainings on the Aware Parenting approach. In this episode Janie shares how she discovered Aware Parenting from Aletha Solter's mother and how she started practising this in her own family. She shares the vital importance of us receiving listening as parents and the powerful role that Re-evaluation Co-counselling has played in supporting her to heal from the trauma of her childhood. Janie shares about the impact Aware Parenting can have for people coming to this approach from both an authoritarian style or a more permissive attachment style parenting. She also shares about her association and how that is supporting parents to learn how to bring Aware Parenting to their families. To learn more about Janie, please visit www.placedesemotions.org or follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/placedesemotions/ or Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/janie-spencer-4937b18/

In this episode of the podcast I talk to Danni Willow again, this time about how to use the tools and strategies of Aware Parenting to heal ourselves. Danni has already been on the podcast twice and is an Aware Parenting Instructor. She is the founder of The Way of the Women which supports families to practice Aware Parenting in their families. She offers one to one sessions, she runs the Exploring Aware Parenting Community with me and she runs women's circles online and in-person. She is the mother of 2 gorgeous girls. In this episode we discuss why it is necessary for us to do our own healing work if we want to practice Aware Parenting in our families. This comes up so often in our sessions that Aware Parenting is as much about doing our work as it is supporting our children and this episode shares in detail how we support our clients to do this. We share why it is hard to do this healing work and reparent ourselves whilst also raising our children. We give detailed explanations of the tools that we use to support ourselves in these ways and why we all need support to do this work. We outline the different components of Aware Reparenting and we discuss how to bring more compassion to our lives. We both acknowledge the amazing work of Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting, as well as the extraordinary work of Marion Rose in supporting healing for parents. We also highly recommend Lael Stone and Marion Rose's new book, Raising Resilient and Compassionate Children. To learn more about Danni, please visit www.thewayofthewomen.com.au and follow her on Instagram and Facebook at Danni Willow. Marion's courses can be found at www.marionrose.net and the needs inventory from Marshall Rosenberg can be found here www.cnvc.org

In this second interview with developmental psychologist and parenting expert Aletha Solter, Ph.D., we tackle the tricky issues of avoiding resenting, feeling guilty, and parental self-care.Dr. Aletha Solter is the founder and director of the Aware Parenting Institute and author of six books. For more information: http://www.awareparenting.com/ and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/423088.Aletha_J_SolterDyslexia Journey has conversations and explorations to help you support the dyslexic child in your life. Content includes approaches, tips, and interviews with a range of guests from psychologists to educators to people with dyslexia. Increase your understanding and connection with your child as you help them embrace their uniqueness and thrive on this challenging journey!Also check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@ParentingDyslexiaJourney

For our holiday episode, we have a very special guest, Aletha Solter's son, Nick. Nick describes himself as the very first guinea pig for Aware Parenting! In this episode, he talks all about what he remembers of his experiences growing up with Aware Parenting, as well as his experiences of parenting his own two children with Aware Parenting. Nick and his wife have recently started their own podcast and YouTube channel called Dyslexia Journey: Support Your Kid, about the journey they have taken as a family with their daughter being diagnosed with Dyslexia. Their YouTube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjHFn9mWKDFtKfO13SkgBdA And the podcast is: https://dyslexiajourney.buzzsprout.com/ Here is the episode with Aletha that Nick talks about, which is called Daily Stress and Your Kid featuring Aletha Solter, PhD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiDONOkByAY

In our interview with developmental psychologist and parenting expert Aletha Solter, Ph.D., we discuss how stress might show up in your dyslexic child – and all children – at different ages, along with tips for how to handle it.Dr. Aletha Solter is the founder and director of the Aware Parenting Institute and author of six books. For more information: http://www.awareparenting.com/ and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/423088.Aletha_J_Solter. Dyslexia Journey has conversations and explorations to help you support the dyslexic child in your life. Content includes approaches, tips, and interviews with a range of guests from psychologists to educators to people with dyslexia. Increase your understanding and connection with your child as you help them embrace their uniqueness and thrive on this challenging journey!Also check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@ParentingDyslexiaJourney

In this episode of The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast, we talk about the challenges we've experienced practicing the combination of these two philosophies, and the challenges we've observed mentees and friends going through. Most of all, we offer deep compassion to you in any challenges you might be experiencing, and we offer bigger context reasons why challenges are so normal and natural. We share about ways we found for everyone to get their needs met, despite living in a culture that doesn't support Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media @ _marion_rose_ and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm

Welcome back to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss number 11 of Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, which is as follows: Children learn best when they have a warm, supportive relationship with their parents and teachers. The learning process is enhanced when parents and teachers: - show acceptance and love while giving children good quality attention - Use encouragement rather than praise, rewards or criticism - Have age-appropriate expectations (neither too high not too low) - Use a non-punitive approach to discipline - Encourage children to ask questions and be independent thinkers - Accept children's painful emotions and allow them to cry. We talk about the failings of our school systems and the impact of learning in environments that do not support our children in these ways. As always, we invite deep self-compassion for everyone listening! To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm

In this special episode, we have a very important guest, Aletha Solter. PhD, founder of Aware Parenting and The Aware Parenting Institute. As a developmental psychologist, Aletha includes the effect of stages of development in Aware Parenting. In this episode, Aletha talks about two things: 1. Myths about typical behaviours at different ages that Aware Parenting helps to dispel, including the following myths: - sleep regressions during infancy - it's 'normal' for toddlers to hit and bite - it's 'normal' for teenagers to rebel 2. She also offers accurate information about developmental stages that helps parents who are implementing the Aware Parenting approach in each of the three aspects - attachment-style parenting, non-punitive discipline and the prevention of, and healing from, stress and trauma. Aletha includes information about the normal stages of separation anxiety, the normal stage of autonomy during the second year, and differentiating between normal developmental fears and traumatic fears. You can find out more about Aletha's work and her books at www.awareparenting.com

If you want a quick snapshot of Aware Parenting, or you want a family member to learn more about it it, this is the episode for you to listen to or to pass on. In it, we talk about the origins of Aware Parenting and about Aletha Solter, the founder of Aware Parenting. We share about the three core principles and how each of them look in practice. We talk about why deep self-compassion is vital in Aware Parenting, as is community and support. We also share about how Aware Parenting invites us on our own journey of inner reparenting. Please come over to our Facebook page, or find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast You can find Marion at www.marionrose.net and Lael at www.laelstone.com.au And if you haven't already, would you be willing to subscribe to the podcast so we can show up in your podcast feed? 
 We're sending you much love and compassion in your parenting journey. Marion and Lael xoxo

Welcome back to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss number 9 of Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, which is as follows: Stress and trauma can interfere with the learning process by causing confusion, anxiety, grief, anger, and difficulty concentrating. The learning process is enhanced when children are allowed to release painful emotions through the natural healing mechanisms of play, laughter, and crying. In the episode, we talk about sources of stress and trauma in traditional school environments, the hyperarousal or dissociation that can occur as a result, and the effect that has on a child's openness and spaciousness for learning. We share about our own experiences as children as well as what we have experienced with our own children. As always, we invite deep self-compassion for everyone listening! To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm

Welcome back to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss number 9 of Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, about screens and learning. We start by inviting people to bring compassion to this tricky aspect of parenting and learning and to put down any judgement, shame or guilt about screens. We acknowledge how difficult it is to parent in our nuclear families without the support we are designed to need and how screens can often make parenting easier. We discuss the many beneficial ways that screens impact our lives and our children's lives and discuss how we have navigated screen use to meet everyone's needs. We offer reassurance about how to stay connected and trusting around screens and how to offer loving limits when screens become a control pattern for our children. We share the importance of getting support and listening for ourselves as we find ways to manage these enticing instruments in a way that suits our unique individual families. Whether your children are at school or not, this episode will support you to bring more compassion and clarity around screens to yourself and your children. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm Lots of love to you, Joss xx

In this episode, we discuss the ways in which the Disconnected Domination Culture, and many schools, value particular types of learning style above others, and the effect that has on children whose key learning styles aren't those. These learning styles are based on different forms of intelligence and include: logical, mathematical, verbal, visual, spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. We talk about the de-conditioning process we've each been on to come to value all forms of learning equally, and how we see that in our own children. We offer suggestions and ideas to explore for parents who also want to get free from this conditioning, both in their own lives, and in supporting their children's unique journeys. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm

Welcome to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss another of Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning. We talk about how “earlier is not necessarily better. Each child develops at his or her own rate”. We share how we have learnt to trust our children's own unique timing with their learning and how natural learning and Aware Parenting have supported us to treat our children with respect and unconditional love. We talk about the damage of exams and gradings and how schools set our children up for comparison and competition in a way that is stressful and detrimental to their learning. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm Lots of love to you, Joss xx

In this episode, we are again inspired by Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, this time, 'The best toys are ones that inspire children to imagine, build, create, and think.' We discuss toys, including those that are overwhelming for children, and we also talk about the power of play and the beauty of having plenty of opportunities to play with our children when we practice Natural Learning. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm

Welcome to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss another of Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning. We talk about creating rich learning environments for our children at home. We discuss the often-overwhelming sensory impacts of school and how that can push our children into chronic hyperarousal or dissociation states, which impacts their capacity to learn. We share how our children have thrived in learning at home in a very relaxed, inspiring and nourishing sensory environment, day after day. We share about the primal human needs for comfort, beauty, peaceful space, choice and being in environments that are attuned to the individual needs of each child. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm Lots of love to you, Joss xx

In this episode, I have the honour of interviewing the founder of Aware Parenting, Aletha Solter. Aletha is a Swiss/American developmental psychologist, mother of 2 grown children, international speaker, workshop leader and consultant. She studied with Dr Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she earned her master's degree in human biology. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has written several books which have been translated into many languages. Dr Solter is the founder of the Aware Parenting Institute and is recognised internationally as an expert on attachment, trauma, and non-punitive discipline. In this episode we discuss her latest book Healing your Traumatized Child. Dr Solter shares some of her considerable knowledge about trauma and how it impacts our children's bodies. She shares how trauma affects feelings and behaviour, and challenges some of the main misunderstandings about how to support children who have experienced trauma. She describes how children are born knowing how to heal and how parents can facilitate this natural biological healing mechanism. She shares how emotional safety, attachment play and supported crying in arms are all vital parts of this healing process. She shares what her research has shown about how adults can also heal from trauma. She shares how this approach has far-reaching impacts on society at large, to address many of the challenges we currently face in the world. To find out more about Aletha Solter, please visit www.awareparenting.com and her many books, including this one, are available from all online sellers. The Aware Parenting Institute is also on Facebook. I highly recommend all of her books.

In this episode, we return to Aletha Solter's Aware Parenting Principles of Learning article, particularly focussing on play, and how children learn through play. We discuss how play is devalued in this culture and how much we value it in Aware Parenting and Natural Learning, seeing it as the primary mode of learning for a child's first decade. We share our own experiences of supporting our children with an environment rich with play, and explore the pain many children experience when faced with long hours sitting at desks being given verbal instruction. We also have a wonderful conversation about the learning power of conversation! To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm

Welcome to another episode of the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning podcast. In this episode we discuss some of Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning. We talk about trusting that our children are born with the desire to learn and the ability to do so in their own unique ways. We share the long and ongoing process we have been through to decondition and deschool ourselves in order to be able to trust our children with learning. We discuss how to support our children's learning to be self-directed instead of imposing our conditioning around what learning “should” look like. To learn more about Marion and her offerings, please visit www.marionrose.net and Joss at www.awareparenting.com.au and follow us on social media at Marion Rose and Aware parenting with Joss. To read Aletha Solter's Principles of Learning, please visit www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm Sending you love, Joss xx

Welcome back to the Birthing in Finland podcast! Today I am talking about a topic I love so much - conscious parenting. My guest is Clara Vazquez, a conscious parenting guide and psychologist who facilitates conscious parenting trainings right here in Finland. In this episode we explored how conscious parenting is actually much more about discovering who we are more than about our children, why it's a philosophy more than a method, how the way in which we were parented influences the way we parent, why emotions are a compass in our life. We explored together the question whether conscious parenting spoils your child and what that even means to begin with, how one of our most basic needs and kids and humans is unconditional love, as well as the importance of play in helping parents connect with their children's interests and internal world. We ended up also talking about the “witching hour” and giving it a slightly new perspective you may have not heard before so make sure you listen till the end to hear our take on it. If you find yourself interested, you can email or send a WhatsApp to Clara to get on the waiting list for the course. She will explain more about it in the episode. Are you ready to explore a perhaps new philosophy of parenting? To look deeper into yourself as a child and now parent? If anything comes up for you from listening to this, please send me a DM on IG and we can explore it more together. Let's get started on this episode about conscious parenting with Clara Vazquez. Show notes: 1. Clara's email: clara.vazquez@trapesa.com 2. Clara's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clara.work.1610 3. Clara's WhatsApp: +358 40 7295355 4. Clara's course for professionals: https://www.trapesa.com/tapahtumat/introduction-to-conscious-parenting/ 5. Clara's course for parents: https://www.instagram.com/consciousparentinginfinland/ 6. Aware Parenting instructor page http://www.awareparenting.com/instruct.htm 7. Books by Aletha Solter: http://www.awareparenting.com/books.htm 8. Dr Shefali website: https://www.drshefali.com/ 9. The Aware Parenting podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/27jy3YpTRlpmEuroVZqtTy 10. Book list from Clara: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AxbQ8xgoH0uPDUjzPj6wDRFK-O9jCS7mQn4_qpk6tao/edit?usp=sharing

In this episode, we talk about Aletha Solter, Ph.D. the founder of The Aware Parenting Institute, and her books: The Aware Baby, Tears and Tantrums, Cooperative and Connected, Attachment Play, Raising Drug-Free Kids and Healing Your Traumatised Child. We share information about what's in them and who they are helpful for. We also express our gratitude for Aletha and her work, which has had such a powerful effect on our lives. We also share exciting news about our book, including its title! Please come over to our Facebook page, or find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast You can find Marion at www.marionrose.net and Lael at www.laelstone.com.au And if you haven't already, would you be willing to subscribe to the podcast so we can show up in your podcast feed? 
 We're sending you much love and compassion in your parenting journey. Marion and Lael xoxo

Today's podcast is in 2 parts. In the first part, I was so fortunate to interview Alfie Kohn. Mr Kohn is a writer and speaker who specializes in human behaviour, education and parenting. He is the author of 14 books and hundreds of articles and lectures at education conferences and universities, as well as to parent groups and corporations. Mr Kohn talks today about moving away from an approach to parenting which is based on having power over our children, to one based on working with our children. He explains how research has challenged many of the assumptions about mainstream approaches to raising our children. He explains that punishments and rewards are really both manipulation and control of our children and only work temporarily and at great cost to our relationship with our children. He describes how intrinsic motivation is damaged by rewards, praise and punishments. We discuss how to offer our children unconditional love in a way that our children receive as unconditional and how to parent without these coercive “sticks”. He also briefly discusses the failings of education systems that are based on testing, homework, and grades, all of which destroy creativity, meaningful learning and the desire to learn. In part 2 of this episode, I outline the Aware Parenting perspective on not using punishments or rewards. I describe how to shift our thinking away from the behaviour modification perspective of trying to control and coerce our children and move instead to an Aware Parenting perspective of power with our children. I explain how to treat our children in a way that allows them to feel unconditionally loved, and how to ‘discipline' our children with a compassionate and connected approach that looks underneath our children's behaviour so we can identity what is getting in the way of them being their natural, loving, cooperative selves. I provide many strategies that parents can use instead of punishments or rewards to make parenting more enjoyable, to deepen our relationship with our children and support ourselves to be the parent we want to be. To find out more about Alfie Kohn, please visit www.alfiekohn.org I highly recommend Alfie Kohn's books “Punished by Rewards” and “Unconditional Parenting”, as well as “Cooperative and Connected” by Aletha Solter and her article “20 Alternatives to Punishment” available on her website www.awareparenting.com

This short extra episode is based on my Introduction to Aware Parenting Course. I describe what Aware Parenting is and what the core aspects and principles are. I explain how to practise Aware Parenting in our families and what strategies we can use to make parenting easier. I talk about how to listen to feelings, how to use attachment play, how to rewind and repair when it all goes wrong. I talk about the struggles and challenges of parenting, how to get support for us and why that is so important. I finish with some reflections that we can all use to help us get clear about how we want things to be. For more information, please visit Aletha Solter's website www.awareparenting.com. You will find all her articles and books on that link. My social media Aware Parenting with Joss also has lots of articles and information, as does my website www.awareparenting.com.au

Attachment play is a part of Aware Parenting as founded by Aletha Solter. Attachment play brings the healing and connective elements of play into our relationships with children. Listen to learn more about this approach and how you could integrate it into your relationships alongside children for deeper connections and to elicit cooperation. Get our FREE download with Attachment Play Ideas for guiding aggressive behaviours on our website here

On today's episode I bring you my conversation with Chloe Bernard who is a birth and postpartum doula. In this episode we talk about the difference between the role of the birth doula and partner. We speak about the doula's job in bringing evidence based information to the family to help them make informed choices, the continuity of care that a doula provides, and why having a doula can be reassuring for the partner just as much. We also speak about what the birthing partner might feel and can expect from labor and birth, the unique aspects that the partner brings and which the doula cannot, the importance of the partner's participation in getting to know the doula during pregnancy, and how the doula's support can be great for the partner in postpartum as well. I also share a little bit about my own birth experience and 2 really key lessons I learned when I debriefed my birth with my doula. We ended this episode by giving really practical things that the partner can do to help the birthing person feel calm in the birth space so stay tuned until the end! Let's get started. Show notes: 1. Chloe's website 2. The Nest website 3. Chloe's FB page 4. Chloe's IG account 5. Evidence Based Birth 6. Brene Brown books 7. Dr Shefali Tsabary on Conscious Parenting 8. Dr Aletha Solter on Aware Parenting 9. To sign up for the Milky Mornings mothers group email danielle@motherstransition.com

Jürgen Peeters schreef het boek met de opvallende titel ‘Kinderen zijn geen puppy's'. Vanaf zijn eerste baan als docent op een basisschool is Jürgen gefascineerd door kinderen aan te zetten tot gewenst gedrag zonder ze te manipuleren. Hoe maak je jezelf en wat je vertelt zo interessant dat kinderen je volgen, niet omdat ze moeten, maar omdat ze dat willen? Jürgen stapte van het onderwijs over naar de jeugdzorg en werd uiteindelijk psychotherapeut. Jürgen introduceerde de ‘Aware Parenting'-methode van de beroemde Amerikaanse psychologe Aletha Solter in België. Ook geeft hij stress/burnout- en leiderschapstrainingen bedrijven. Al die ervaring van die Jürgen de afgelopen 25 jaar in het contact met ouders en kinderen heeft opgedaan, inclusief wat hij zelf als vader heeft meegemaakt sinds zijn oudste 20 jaar geleden werd geboren, heeft Jürgen gebundeld in een overzichtelijk boek: 'Kinderen zijn geen puppy's' De ondertitel van het boek is ‘de kracht van zelfsturing in opvoeding'. De kern van het boek is hoe je als ouder voorbij de korte-termijn-gedragscontrole gaat en je gaat focussen op de ontwikkeling van je kind op de langere termijn. In het vorige interview met Jürgen - een van de best beluisterde afleveringen van de Praktijkvader Podcast - hebben het uitgebreid gehad over dat boek en hoe je opvoedt zonder straffen of belonen. Drie jaar later gaan we in deze aflevering verder met dat belangrijke gesprek en beantwoorden we ook vragen van lezers. We hebben het opnieuw over opvoedthema's als afgestemd ouderschap, democratisch opvoeden, straffen/belonen en we gaan verder in op wat wij als ouders te doen hebben omdat mogelijk te maken. Veel luisterplezier!

Kara and Tony review the Aware Parenting workshop: “Helping Children Heal From Stress and Trauma” from Developmental Psychologist, Aletha Solter

I denne episoden møter du min gode venn My Maria Sofia Skarp som bor på Nesodden. My jobber også med gravide og barselmammaer som meg, men i dag skal vi ikke snakke så mye om det arbeidet direkte, men mer om hennes arbeid med Aware Parenting. Aware Parenting er en tilknytningsfilosofi som oppstod på 1990 tallet, grunnlagt av Aletha Solter. My utdanner seg nå for å bli Aware Parenting instruktør og i episoden forteller hun inngående om hva Aware Parenting er- og hvorfor det er verdt å sjekke ut. My snakker om barn, deres uttrykksbehov og hvordan vi som foreldre kan møte barna våre der de er. Hun gir mange eksempler på utfordringer vi foreldre, og barn kan møte i hverdagen, og hva de kan være et uttrykk for, og hvordan vi kan jobbe med å forløse energien- og hjelpe barna våre gjennom vanskelige følelser og opplevelser. Vi snakker også om Attachement Play. Du kan kontakte My på mail: blomstrande.barn@gmail.com, eller Instagram ved Blomstrande.barn. Hun blir snart også å finne her: www.mymariasofia.love I intervjuet nevner My grunleggeren av Aware Parenting Aletha Solter, og hennes to bøker:" The Aware Baby" & " Attachement Play". Vi snakker også om podcasten The Aware Parent Podcast. For kjøp av oljer kontakt meg pr. e.post. Du finner mer info om meg og mitt arbeid på: www.eyemother.com Du kan kontakte meg på: oyemormamma@gmail.com eller på Instagram @Eye_mother eller Facebookgruppen Eyemother/Øyemor PODCAST. Du kan også finne meg på Youtube @Eyemother hvor jeg deler info om mitt liv, arbeide, morskap og levesett.

1 Conversation with Joss Goulden, Aware Parenting Instructor Joss is the mother of a 17 year old son and 15 year old daughter and she shares her journey of Aware Parenting and natural learning, and how she’s experienced the combination of the two. I loved talking with Joss, and particularly enjoyed how she shared about Aletha Solter’s Aware Parenting Principles of Learning and how they can be met with natural learning. http://www.awareparenting.com/learning.htm You can find Joss and can enquire about working with her at: https://www.facebook.com/Aware-Parenting-with-Joss-114321040695780 https://www.instagram.com/awareparentingwithjoss/

In this episode, part 2 on tantrums, we talk about: What causes tantrums; Why we might have big reactions when our child has a tantrum; The cause of tantrums; How the healthy expression of feelings, such as in tantrums, helps a child; The difference between tantrums and aggression; How we might respond most helpfully when our child has a tantrum; What we need to be able to respond helpfully. If you're wanting to dive in deeper, Lael is running another live round of her Aware Parenting Immersion: https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-immersion-level-1/ And Marion has a few courses on this, eg: https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/tears-and-tantrums-children-expressing-big-feelings/ http://www.makingfriendswithchildrensfeelings.com/course/ We also recommend Tears and Tantrums by Aletha Solter. Please come over to our Facebook page, or find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast You can find Marion at www.marionrose.net and Lael at www.laelstone.com.au And if you haven't already, would you be like to subscribe to the podcast so we can show up in your podcast feed? 
 We're sending you much love and compassion in your parenting journey. Marion and Lael xoxo

Corinne Sprecher im Interview Stelle dich kurz vor:Mein Name ist Corinne Sprecher und ich bin Mama von zwei kleinen Jungs. Als ich vor knapp 7 Jahren zum ersten Mal Mama wurde, kam ich ziemlich schnell an meine Grenzen. Ich hatte den Eindruck, ich verstehe meinen Sohn nicht richtig. Er weinte und weinte und für mich fühlte sich das, was ich in meinem Umfeld zum Umgang mit Kindern sah, nicht richtig stimmig an. Heute bin ich unglaublich dankbar dafür, dass meine Ansichten über Kinder, Eltern und Erziehung so schnell erschüttert wurden. Denn dadurch habe ich mich auf den Weg gemacht, vieles hinterfragt, für mich sortiert und aus meiner Sicht überholte Erziehungsansätze hinter mir gelassen. Ich bin unbeirrt meinen Weg gegangen. Heute lachen wir viel in unserer Familie, wir kennen die Leichtigkeit, wir haben Spass zusammen. Das gemeinsame Spiel ist ein zentraler Schlüssel zu dieser Leichtigkeit. Und darüber will ich gerne heute hier mit euch sprechen. Was machst du beruflich? Ich bin seit vielen Jahren in der Erwachsenenbildung, Moderation und Beratung tätig. Im letzten Jahr habe ich meine eigene Firma «begegnungsreich» gegründet.  «begegnungsreich» hat zwei Standbeine, eines bei den Familien und eines in der Arbeitswelt. Ich unterstütze Eltern dabei, an den Herausforderungen der ersten Jahre zu wachsen, den Zauber der Kindheit zu geniessen und ihren für sich stimmigen Weg zu mehr Leichtigkeit in der Familie zu finden. Kinder laden uns ein, der Welt und uns selbst immer wieder neu zu begegnen. Und sie laden uns meiner Meinung nach ein, noch verbreitete Erziehungsansätze zu hinterfragen und Überholtes und für uns nicht Stimmiges hinter uns zu lassen. Zudem arbeite ich im zweiten Standbein mit Teams, Organisationen und Einzelpersonen mit der Motivation in der Arbeitswelt mehr Begegnungen zu schaffen, die unser Tun und Sein wirklich bereichern. Was sind deine Fähigkeiten / in welchem Gebiet bist du Spezialistin? Mein Gebiet ist dasjenige der Erziehung jenseits von Bestrafung, Drohungen, Schimpfen und auch sonstiger Manipulation, Tricks oder Belohnung. Dabei stehen die Eltern-Kind-Beziehung, das Spiel und der Umgang mit Stress im Zentrum. Der bedeutendste Einfluss auf mich und meine Arbeit hat «Aware Parenting» nach Dr. Aletha Solter. Ich setze mich seit Jahren intensiv damit auseinander, habe mich darin weitergebildet und arbeite zurzeit an der Anerkennung zum Aware Parenting Instructor. Ich liebe es, in Ruhe und Präsenz dem, was gerade ist, Raum zu geben und Kinder auch durch starke Gefühle liebevoll zu begleiten. Denn Weinen, Wüten und Toben lösen Stress. Gleichzeitig ist meine Spezialität die Leichtigkeit und das Lachen miteinzuladen und spielerisch mit Kindern in Kontakt zu kommen und zu interagieren. Ich sprudle vor Ideen wie Herausforderungen spielerisch angegangen werden können – präventiv, im Moment und auch heilend und versöhnend danach. Meine Grundlage dafür ist das Konzept der Bindungsspiele von Dr. Aletha Solter. Was ist aus deiner Sicht das Wichtigste, was ein Kind braucht, um voller Selbstvertrauen und Selbstliebe heranzuwachsen?Täglich Zeit mit mindestens einem Erwachsenen zu verbringen, der es für wichtig und besonders hält und sich ganz auf das Kind einlassen kann. Deine Kontaktdaten – wo finde ich dich?https://www.facebook.com/pg/begegnungsreich https://www.facebook.com/groups/leichtigkeitinderfamilie/   Ich lade euch herzlich ein in meine FB-Gruppe zu kommen! https://www.facebook.com/groups/leichtigkeitinderfamilie/   Wenn du nicht auf FB bist und mit mir in Kontakt treten möchtest, kannst du das gerne per Email: corinne@begegnungsreich.ch   Wer mehr über die Bindungsspiele erfahren möchte, dem empfehle ich das Buch «Spielen schafft Nähe – Nähe löst Konflikte. Spielideen für eine gute Bindung.» von Aletha J. Solter. www.terrorkids.ch/buch-spielen

In this conversation, Aletha Solter, Ph.D. talks about the history of parenting, and in particular, the history of punishment, co-sleeping / the separation of children and parents, and the history of crying and tantrums. This conversation spans pre-history, Ancient Greece and Rome, The Middle Ages, right up until today. Aletha shares about the shifts that have happened since the 1950's in terms of parenting, and where Aware Parenting fits into this picture. You can find out more about her work and books at The Aware Parenting Institute, www.awareparenting.com

Heute habe ich Dr. Nicole Kikillus, kurz “Kiki” und Christian Clemens von den “Glücksknirpsen” bei mir zu Gast. Beide hatten zu ihren Ausbildungszeiten wenig mit dem Thema Gesundheit zu tun. Kiki hat ihr Studium für Elektro und Informationstechnik erfolgreich abgeschlossen und anschließend promovierte sie als Dr. Ing. (summa cum laude) Christian ist Dipl.- Betriebswirt. Er arbeitete mehrere Jahre als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter. Vor einigen Jahre starteten beide zunächst aus voller Leidenschaft mit einem Blog. Schon kurze Zeit später, folgte ihr 1. deutschsprachiger Kinder – Gesundheits Onlinekongress. Weil die Resonanz der Teilnehmer so überwältigend war, folgte ein weiterer Kongress ein Jahr später. Aus diesen Onlinekongressen entstand ihr erfolgreiches Online Business, die “Glücksknirpse”. Beide arbeiten heute als Interviewer, Blogger, “Forscher” und Entwickler von Onlinekursen. Kiki ist Coach für bewusste Elternschaft, (Aware Parenting Instructor) zertifiziert durch Dr. Aletha Solter und Christian arbeitet zusätzlich als Coach für Schulprobleme. Ihr Kinder-& Gesundheitsprojekt “Glücksknirpse” ist für Eltern gedacht, die sich informieren, sich Gedanken machen und bewusste Entscheidungen treffen in Sachen Gesundheit, Erziehung, Ernährung etc., Eltern die Gesundheit & Glück ihrer Familie aktiv selbst in die Hand nehmen. Und Kinder glücklicher, stressfreier, lebensfroher, freier und gesünder aufwachsen und leben. Wir sprechen unter anderem über folgende Themen: wie beide auf das Thema Ernährung gekommen sind welche Probleme auftreten, wenn zu viel Zucker gegessen wird, insbesondere bei  Kindern? wie Kiki und Christian ihre Kinder gesund erziehen was für Alternativen es zu den herkömmlichen Süßigkeiten für Kinder gibt welche Auswirkung Stress auf unsere Gesundheit hat und ob Kinder auch schon unter Stress leiden und was Eltern dagegen tun können In der nächsten Darmglück Episode spreche ich mit dir über das Thema: “Mikrobiomanalyse”, welches eine sehr detaillierte Analyse ist und uns sehr genau über den Zustand unserer Darmflora und den pH wert unseres Darmes informiert. Zudem lässt sich erkennen, ob schädliche Bakterien oder Pilze vorhanden sind, uvm. Wenn du hierzu genauere Informationen haben möchtest, merke dir diese Folge vor und höre unbedingt rein. Webseite von Kiki & Christian: https://www.gluecksknirpse.de Onlinekurse von Kiki & Christian: https://www.gluecksknirpse.de/onlinekurse/ Facebook Seite von den Glücksknirpsen: https://www.facebook.com/gluecksknirpse/ Buch von Dr. Kurt Mosetter, Zucker der heimliche Killer: https://amzn.to/35gmXVf Zuckerquiz: https://www.gruber-ernaehrung.ch/zuckerquiz Kostenlose Darmglück Facebook Gruppe: www.gruber-ernaehrung.ch/facebookgruppe Hast du Fragen an mich? Oder Rückmeldungen zum Podcast? Dann hinterlasse mir gerne eine Voicemail! https://www.gruber-ernaehrung.ch/voicemail Darmglück Online Kurs https://www.gruber-ernaehrung.ch/darmglueck Instagram Profil Julia Gruber: https://www.instagram.com/juliaelisabethgruber/ Shownotes zu dieser Folge: https://www.gruber-ernaehrung.ch/075

From the work of Aletha Solter, founder of Aware Parenting

Food and Control In this week's episode we talk about food and control and how children can use food as a way to repress feelings as well as gain some control in their lives. [1.30] Why food issues can be about control [2:45] Why feelings around food can be confusing [5.30] Food as love [8.05] Trusting our bodies and what we want to eat [11.00] Confusing hunger and feelings [13.45] Compassion for our stories around food [19.00] Bringing awareness to food [21.35] Powerlessness in life and gaining control [23.00] Overeating, boundaries and survival [25.50] Listening to the quality of asking for food [29.35] Attachment Play with Food [33.40] How our digestive system is related to feelings and emotions [37.50] Trust and food and giving power to our children [40.51] Being present in our bodies [45.45] Enjoying food and family [49.00] Compassion for ourselves with our relationship with food. [53.30] Eating with pleasure and love This week's invitation: 1.  Be curious as to your relationship with food 2. Bringing joy, laughter, and love to eating and family time Resources: Marion's courses - http://www.marionrose.net/which-course-is-for-you/ Aletha Solter's Books - Tears and Tantrums, The Aware Baby, Co-operative and Connected   As always, you can head over to the Aware Parenting Podcast Facebook group and join in the discussion, or you'll find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast  You can find Marion at marionrose.net and Lael at laelstone.com.au And if you haven't already, make sure you subscribe to the podcast so we can pop into your podcast feed. 
 Sending you much love, compassion and grace in your parenting journey. x Lael and Marion

In this episode, we talk all about powerlessness, power-over and power-with in parenting, politics and partnering. We discuss the differences between authoritarian, permissive and democratic parenting, and how much we've been affected by the domination paradigm. We also share our own experiences around powerlessness and power-with in parenting and partnering. Resources: Cooperative and Connected by Aletha Solter. Lael's webinar on Aware Parenting for Teens and Tweens: https://laelstone.webinarninja.com/live-webinars/87098/register Marion's Power and Powerlessness offerings: Free intro to Power and Powerlessness in Parenting: http://www.powerandpowerlessnessinparenting.com/ Powerlessness, Power-over and Power-with in Parenting Masterclass https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/powerlessness-power-over-and-power-with-in-parenting-masterclass/ Power and Powerlessness in Parenting Course: www.powerandpowerlessnessinparenting.com/invitation

In this episode, we talk about attachment play, which is a term coined by Aletha Solter, Ph.D. to describe the 9 types of play that can be used to help children cooperate, feel connected, heal from painful past experiences, release fear and powerlessness, and express feelings that otherwise lead to hitting, not sleeping and repressing feelings. We explain how attachment play works, why it's the opposite of behaviourism, how we can use it to help children cooperate, and we give examples of how it can be used in really specific ways. Most of all, it brings more connection, joy and fun into family life! Further resources: Attachment Play by Aletha Solter, Ph.D. http://www.awareparenting.com/attachmentplay.html Attachment Play Course by Marion Rose, Ph.D. http://www.attachmentplaycourses.com/join-in Playful Parenting by Lawrence Cohen

In this episode, we talk about repression mechanisms - what they are, how our children acquire them, how they're passed down in families, and how we can help our children have fewer of them! Books: Raising Drug-Free Kids by Aletha Solter

In this episode, we talk about how different life can be, practicing Aware Parenting with tweens and teens. Further resources: Lael's webinars - Aware Parenting with tweens and teens & How to Talk to your Kids about Sex, both at: https://www.facebook.com/laelstone/ Brainstorm - Dan Seigel Sex ed rescue - https://sexedrescue.com/. Raising Drug-Free Kids by Aletha Solter

In this episode, we talk about sleep from an Aware Parenting perspective. Aware Parenting offers a third way with sleep - a way for babies and children to be securely attached AND to sleep restfully. We explain what gets in the way of sleep, the three things needed for restful sleep, and how as parents we can often be fighting our children's natural relaxation mechanisms. Books: The Aware Baby, Tears and Tantrums and Attachment Play - all by Aletha Solter, Ph.D. Free intro: https://www.soundasleep.me/ Course: http://www.soundasleep.me/invitation/

Dans ce nouvel épisode de ParentBlabla, nous parlons du jeu. Et plus spécifiquement, du jeu avec son enfant. Les intervenants : GrandPoil, Litchie, Keppra, Rémi, Pissaladière, Polgara, sousX et Chibani  Pour aller plus loin : - Livre : “Développer le lien parent-enfant par le jeu”, de Aletha Solter  - Podcast de Polgara : Proxi-jeux : https://podcast.proxi-jeux.fr/  - Podcast : "Papa à quoi tu joues ?" https://papapodcast.fr/category/paqoj/    Nous vous partageons également une grande liste de jeux, sur notre page Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/parentblabla/    Si le podcast vous plait, si vous souhaitez mettre votre grain de sel, n’hésitez pas à venir nous rejoindre aux enregistrements. L’accès est libre et les dates sont annoncées sur notre compte Twitter (@ParentBlabla) et Facebook.   Générique : Baby baby baby - Make the girls dance  Produit par Podcut 

Dans ce nouvel épisode de ParentBlabla, nous parlons du jeu. Et plus spécifiquement, du jeu avec son enfant. Les intervenants : GrandPoil, Litchie, Keppra, Rémi, Pissaladière, Polgara, sousX et Chibani  Pour aller plus loin : - Livre : “Développer le lien parent-enfant par le jeu”, de Aletha Solter  - Podcast de Polgara : Proxi-jeux : https://podcast.proxi-jeux.fr/  - Podcast : "Papa à quoi tu joues ?" https://papapodcast.fr/category/paqoj/    Nous vous partageons également une grande liste de jeux, sur notre page Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/parentblabla/    Si le podcast vous plait, si vous souhaitez mettre votre grain de sel, n’hésitez pas à venir nous rejoindre aux enregistrements. L’accès est libre et les dates sont annoncées sur notre compte Twitter (@ParentBlabla) et Facebook.   Générique : Baby baby baby - Make the girls dance  Produit par Podcut 

In this episode, we talk about the short term and long term effects of listening to a baby's feelings. Books: The Aware Baby by Aletha Solter. Tears and Tantrums by Aletha Solter. Cooperative and Connected by Aletha Solter. Babies have real feelings ebook: http://www.awareparentingbabies.com/babies-have-real-feelings/

In this episode, we introduce ourselves and our journey with Aware Parenting. You can find out more about Lael at: www.laelstone.com.au and Marion at: www.marionrose.net For more info on Aware Parenting and Aletha Solter take a look at : http://www.awareparenting.com/

In this conversation, Aletha Solter and I talk about the self-regulation approach to eating that is included in the Aware Parenting approach. You can find out more about Aware Parenting at www.awareparenting.com and you can read more about the Aware Parenting approach to eating in Dr. Solter's book, "Cooperative and Connected".

In this conversation, I talk to Aletha Solter about the Aware Parenting approach to sleep. We talk about the three things babies and children need for restful sleep, how babies can have restful sleep AND be securely attached, and how both parents and babies and children can get their needs met around sleep.

On this episode, Melanie reads an article from Pathways to Family Wellness. The article is titled "The Drugging of Children: A National Disgrace" by Aletha Solter, Ph.D. It discusses ADHD and the Ritalin. It discusses the epedimic of ADHD diagnosis and prescribing of medications similar to cocaine to children as young as 4 years old.

In this conversation, we answer the following questions. What are parents' main concerns around screens? What is Dr. Solter's view on screens for children? What age is a recommended initial age for screens for children? How can we help our children's screen use be helpful rather than harmful? How can we differentiate between when screen use is meeting a need or repressing painful feelings? You can find out more about Aware Parenting at www.awareparenting.com

In this conversation, we talk about loving limits. What are loving limits? When do we need to set limits? Do children inherently need 'boundaries'? What happens if parents are afraid to set loving limits? You can find out more about Aware Parenting at www.awareparenting.com

Jürgen Peeters - trainer, therapeut, docent, spreker- schreef vorig jaar het boek met de opvallende titel ‘Kinderen zijn geen puppy’s’. Vanaf zijn eerste baan als docent op een basisschool is Jürgen gefascineerd door kinderen aan te zetten tot gewenst gedrag zonder ze te manipuleren. Hoe maak je jezelf en wat je vertelt zo interessant dat kinderen je volgen, niet omdat ze moeten, maar omdat ze dat willen? Jürgen stapte van het onderwijs over naar de jeugdzorg en werd uiteindelijk psychotherapeut. Hij introduceerde de ‘Aware Parenting’-methode van de beroemde Amerikaanse psychologe Aletha Solter in België. Ook geeft hij stress/burnout- en leiderschapstrainingen in bedrijven. Alle ervaring  die Jürgen de afgelopen 25 jaar in het contact met ouders en kinderen heeft opgedaan, inclusief wat hij zelf als vader heeft meegemaakt sinds zijn oudste 18 jaar geleden werd geboren, heeft hij gebundeld in het overzichtelijk boek 'Kinderen zijn geen puppy's'. De ondertitel is ‘de kracht van zelfsturing in opvoeding’. De kern van het boek is hoe je als ouder voorbij de korte-termijn-gedragscontrole gaat en je gaat focussen op de ontwikkeling van je kind op de langere termijn. Dus niet het ‘zit-lig-pootje-koekje’ van de puppycursus zoals Jürgen zegt. Maar veel meer met plezier samen met je kind onderweg zijn. Grenzen stellen én een goede relatie. En dat doe je niet alleen voor je kinderen of voor jezelf, want Jürgen legt ook de link van de opvoeding naar het creëeren van de samenleving van morgen die vraagt om andere normen en waarden dan waar wij zelf mee zijn grootgebracht. 'Door te straffen en te belonen belast je de relatie met je kind. Jullie relatie wordt gebaseerd op macht en manipulatie. Je leeft voor dat het oké is om te manipuleren.' In dit gesprek gaan we het natuurlijk hebben over het grootbrengen van je kinderen en alles wat daarbij komt kijken. Alle bekende, dagelijkse en klassieke opvoedonderwerpen komen voorbij. Hoe ga je voorbij het straffen en belonen, wat is grenzen stellen, wat is jouw rol als ouder en nog veel meer. Super waardevol, dus luister meteen!

Conversations with Aletha Solter, Ph.D. Part Five - The crying in arms approach of Aware Parenting by Marion Rose, Ph.D.

Conversations with Aletha Solter, Ph.D. Part Four - Aware Parenting, culture and evolution by Marion Rose, Ph.D.

Conversations with Aletha Solter, Ph.D. Part Three - "Cooperative and Connected book." by Marion Rose, Ph.D.

In this, second in the series of conversations with Dr. Aletha Solter, we talk about the long term effects of Aware Parenting and the importance of grandparents. You can find out more about Dr. Solter's work at www.awareparenting.com

This is the first in a series of interviews with Dr. Aletha Solter, the founder of The Aware Parenting Institute and author or 5 books. You can find out more about her work at www.awareparenting.com

Sally's interview with Danie Smallwood, local midwife of 3 yrs, becoming a mother, how this experience may be changing her perspectives as a midwife. First part of this recording is a review of VDay Byron Bay's performance of Vagina Monologues, including a brief recording from the birth monologue. Then final part of (part 3 of 3) interview with a male student midwife. See parts 1 and 2 with our other recent episodes.(Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/student-male-midwife-part-1-of-2)(Part 2: https://www.spreaker.com/user/4527888/male-student-midwife-part-2-of-3)Then interview with Danie. Related links:www.vdaybyronbay.com.au"The Aware Baby" book by Aletha Solter, PhD.Produced and presented by Sally CusackCopyright PBB Media and Sally Cusack 2016www.pbbmedia.org

Sally's interview with Danie Smallwood, local midwife of 3 yrs, becoming a mother, how this experience may be changing her perspectives as a midwife. First part of this recording is a review of VDay Byron Bay's performance of Vagina Monologues, including a brief recording from the birth monologue. Then final part of (part 3 of 3) interview with a male student midwife. See parts 1 and 2 with our other recent episodes.(Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/student-male-midwife-part-1-of-2)(Part 2: https://www.spreaker.com/user/4527888/male-student-midwife-part-2-of-3)Then interview with Danie. Related links:www.vdaybyronbay.com.au"The Aware Baby" book by Aletha Solter, PhD.Produced and presented by Sally CusackCopyright PBB Media and Sally Cusack 2016www.pbbmedia.org

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