The Aware Parenting Podcast

In this Q and A, we talked about:

Helping children with feelings when they’re not yet able to do something;

Supporting boys in a competitive world;

Understanding children’s play with toy weapons;

What we can do when with other parents who want an immediate apology;

Supporting children around sharing;

How Aware Parenting differs from other parenting styles;

What the term ‘holding space’ means; and

Balancing reducing overwhelm for babies with meeting our own needs.

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

Our first hitting and biting podcast was cut short at the end, so we decided to come back and create this one! In it, we talk about:

Why and how Aware Parenting is so different to behaviourism;

How our core beliefs about human beings affects our response to hitting;

The cause of hitting and biting;

How we can offer Loving Limits in response to hitting;

How we can move in with attachment play in response to hitting;

How we can prevent hitting from happening in the first place;

Our own invitation to do our own inner work so we’re more likely to be able to respond in these ways;

The importance of self-compassion.

For more:

Aletha Solter - Tears and Tantrums, Cooperative and Connected

Lael’s Course - https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-for-couples/

Marion’s Courses -

Aggression and Aware Parenting video | audio | PDF https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/aggression-and-aware-parenting/

Making Friends with Children’s Feelings http://www.makingfriendswithchildrensfeelings.com/course/

Power and Powerlessness in Parenting http://www.powerandpowerlessnessinparenting.com/invitation/

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

In this episode, we talked about the three key ways we can support ourselves to be able to stay calm as parents more of the time. We hope you find it helpful!

You can find out more about Lael’s couple’s course here:

https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-for-couples/

You can find out about Marion’s Helping Ourselves Respond Helpfully to Our Child’s Behaviour offering here: https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/helping-ourselves-respond-helpfully-to-our-childs-behaviour-with-aware-parenting/

and Making Friends with Children’s Feelings Course here: http://www.makingfriendswithchildrensfeelings.com/course/

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

Wow! This was a powerful episode, all about mother power.

We talk about why we believe it is time on a planetary level for mothers to relaxin our power.

We share our own stories of reconnecting with our power.

We explain why having deep compassion for our experiences of powerlessness is so vital.

We invite you to connect with your power in service of your love for your child/ren and what you want for them.

We support you in connecting with your yeses and noes.

And we share power portals ~ ways to connect with your power.

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

In this episode, we talk about the teenage parts of us, when they can show up (eg. with our teenagers, friends and colleagues), and how we can listen lovingly to them in ways that support healing to happen.

If you'd like to dive deeper into this work, Marion has an Inner Loving Presence Process Course at: http://www.innerlovingpresenceprocess.com/

And if you've already done Lael's Level One Immersion, she has a Level Two Immersion to explore your own teenage years here: https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-immersion-level-2/

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

In this moving episode, we talk about the ways that we can help our children actually experience being loved.

We explore the gap that can happen between knowing that we love our children and them having a felt sense of being loved.

We invite lots of compassion and share ways we can repair through offering loving and listening experiences - and remind you that it is never too late to do any of these things!

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

In this episode, we talked about cultural conditioning which has often led to parents not trusting their children, and how we can free ourselves up from that to redevelop our capacity for trust.

We discussed trusting our children around:

Their needs;

Their food choices;

Their capacity to heal from stress and trauma;

Their knowing how to feel relaxed before sleep;

Their intuition;

Their individuation and

Their learning.

We also included experiences of how we’ve learnt to trust our children and ourselves.

We hope you love it! We trust you!

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

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

In this episode, we return to talking about babies (Episode 3 was on attachment and tears!)

Lael shares about how she helped her daughter heal from birth trauma with Aware Parenting, and the tangible signs in her baby’s behaviour that showed her that the trauma was being released.

Marion talks about her academic and psychotherapeutic background before becoming a mother, and how Aware Parenting resonated with all that she’d learnt.

Lael talks about the clear differences she saw between her two older children and her youngest child, related to Aware Parenting.

Marion shares about how she realised that her daughter had feelings to express, and how she knew that her daughter’s expressing her feelings in her arms was helpful.

We talk lots about the huge leap that Aware Parenting with a baby is, the importance of self-compassion and going slowly.

We also talk about how Aware Parenting is the third way with sleep, and the three things that babies and children need for sound sleep.

We talk about the spectrum of practicing Aware Parenting, and what happens to the feelings that we aren’t able to listen to in our babies.

If you’d like to learn more, Marion has some courses:

Babies Have Real Feelings free ebook and audio:

http://www.awareparentingbabies.com/babies-have-real-feelings/

Aware Parenting Babies Q and A Vault:

http://www.awareparentingbabies.com/q-and-a-vault-invitation/

Aware Parenting Babies Course (with Helena Mooney):

http://www.awareparentingbabies.com/

Lael is running another live round of her Aware Parenting Immersion:

https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-immersion-level-1/

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

In this podcast, we responded to questions about:

apologies;

punishments and rewards;

'strong will';

supporting our children when we’re going through a hard time;

differentiating a control pattern from lowering sensory overload;

finding our child’s behaviour challenging;

making a decision about school or homeschooling;

balancing time with friends and time at home.

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