How do you feel when your child cries? Panic? Irritation? A desire to make them stop?
Do you allow yourself to cry - ideally with a friend? Or do you view it as a weakness?
This episode will help you to reframe crying to see its powerful benefits for you, your baby & your children.
Marion Rose is Australia’s leading Aware Parenting Instructor and has been my mentor for 10 years. This episode is packed full of amazing insights to help you navigate being a parent, as well as life in general. It will show you how to help your child with their big upset feelings, how to help your baby sleep better, and how to help you with managing your own stress - plus so much more….!

• Crying can indicate an unmet physical need. AND it can also be a really healthy, normal stress release mechanism. Babies, children & adults all have a need to release upset feelings. Laughter is a great way of doing this, but sometimes it’s not enough, and crying is the next step.
• Whenever we refer to crying, we always mean crying WITH a loving, attentive adult. Particularly when we’re talking about babies & children, we never advocate leaving them to cry on their own. The stress release healing comes from being connected with someone whilst crying.
• Learn how sleep, aggression, challenging behaviour, anxiety and being accident-prone are linked to crying.
• And discover how crying helped me navigate the heartache of secondary infertility and IVF

How Can You Implement this At Home?

• be with your upset child and listen to them, without distracting or soothing with the intention of getting them to stop crying.
• notice how they are afterwards. Usually they will be more relaxed, loving, content, happier and will sleep better.

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LINKS:Aletha Solter - Aware Parenting Institute Johann Hari - Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong Dr Gabor Mate
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For full show notes and links visit: https://parentingwithplay.com.au/podcast-4-crying/