by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 24, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Control Patterns, Crying, Feelings, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Repression
Hello again! I wonder if you’ve ever thought very much about what distraction is. For example, if your child is upset and you distract him with a snack, what actually happens? Distraction really means that we take his attention away from his upset...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 20, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Crying, Evolving as an Aware Parent, Loving Limits, Loving Limits and the sweet spot, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, Rage, Repression, Siblings, Sweet Spots, Tantrums
Hello again! Today my kids and I went for a lovely walk on the beach. When we got home, we started setting up two new games we got – one is tennis on a stick and the other is football on a stick. My daughter was doing the lion’s share, and my son was...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 19, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Compassion, Conditioning, Connection, Evolving Through Parenting, My Aware Parenting Experiences and Musings, True self
Hello! Today I took my 14 year old daughter and 10 year old son to a homeschooling board-game meet-up. We arrived and my son said he didn’t want to join in – in fact he had said all along that he didn’t really want to go! We went back outside,...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 17, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Compassion, Connection, Crying, Evolving Through Parenting, True self
Hello! What do you believe is your true nature? And what about children? What do you believe their true nature is? For many hundreds of years in the West, the core belief was that human beings are born sinful and evil and could only become helpful members of society...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 15, 2016 | Aggression, Aware Parenting, Compassion, Conditioning, Crying, Evolving as an Aware Parent, Rage
Hello! I am delighted and honoured to be sharing a guest post with you today. It’s by Kata, my friend and colleague, and it’s all about loving aggression. I LOVED it when I read it, and asked if I could share it with you. Kata says; ...
by lovingbeing@iinet.net.au | Sep 10, 2016 | Aware Parenting, Connected Crying, Crying, Tantrums
Hello! I wonder if you saw those memes that went around on FB a while ago, where children had tantrums or big cries in response to seemingly small things that their parents did? The parents shared photos of their children. Sometimes the parents were judging their...
