In this episode, I talked with Joss Goulden, an Aware Parenting instructor who hosts The Aware Parenting Stories Podcast and who co-hosts The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast with me. Joss shared about her own journey with sleep as a mother, including her son's frequent waking until she found out about Aware Parenting. We also talked about cultural and historical perspectives to sleep, and why that can be so helpful as parents, particularly in terms of co-sleeping, which we also talked a lot about. Joss also offered lots of information about teens and sleep, and how to support teens with the three things needed for sound sleep. You can find out more about Joss and her work at: www.awareparenting.com.au and on social media at Aware Parenting with Joss. You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net and https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ and https://www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

In this episode, I talk to Nic Wilson of Peaceful Parenting, an Aware Parenting instructor who shares about her journey of Aware Parenting, going from her daughter waking up every 45 minutes at night for three years, and that changing radically once she found out about Aware Parenting. She shares about all the other methods she tried, including white noise and controlled crying, and also about all the things she was told to do and not do in relation to sleep. If you want to find out more about Nic and her work, you can do that at: https://peacefulparenting.com.au/ You can find out more about me and my work at: https://marionrose.net/

In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, I answer 12 questions from parents, starting with a 9 year old, going back through decreasing ages to a 6 month old. The questions include nightmares, wriggling, frequent night waking, not wanting dad to put them to bed, pulling hair whilst breastfeeding to sleep, healing from birth trauma, and waking up crying. I also talk about general things you can do to support your child or baby to be more relaxed and sleep more restoratively. I'm going to be making a new course on sleep, writing a book and creating a workshop, so keep an eye out on my social media and email list if you want to find out more about those. If you enjoy this episode, please share it with parents who are looking for a different approach with sleep and whom you think might resonate. You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net, https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ and https://www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, I talk about sleep from an Aware Parenting perspective. This incudes why Aware Parenting is the third way with sleep, the three things needed for sound sleep, and why it's important to understand the difference between true relaxation and dissociation when looking at sleep. I also explain why concepts such as 'overtired', 'fighting sleep', 'sleep windows' and 'sleep regression' don't exist in Aware Parenting. I share about my own experience of sleep in my family and about the myth that early parenthood always not getting much sleep for years! I'm going to be making a new course on sleep, writing a book and creating a workshop, so keep an eye out on my social media and email list if you want to find out more about those. The existing course is very glitchy at the moment! You can find out more about my work at www.marionrose.net, https://www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/ and https://www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD

In this first episode of the new-format Aware Parenting Podcast, I talk about stress for parents. Most of all, I normalise the experience stress in The Disconnected Domination Culture and offer compassion and empathy as well ideas for how both to reduce stress and heal from stress. Are you experiencing stress at the moment? If so, is there anything you can do to reduce your stress levels? Anything you can say no to? Things that you can do less of? And most of all, do you have empathy buddies to whom you can express your feelings and opportunities for some peaceful pauses in your life, even if that's just 10 minutes in the bath or leaving messages on Voxer? So much love to you! xoxox You can find our more about my work at: www.marionrose.net

In this very special episode, we interview Gabor Maté about his most recent book, 'The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.' We so loved talking with Gabor and hearing him share his wisdom about his willingness to be vulnerable, the four needs of children, and how people are desperate for information about trauma and healing. He also shared about attachment and authenticity, and the effects of needing to make a choice between these two as a child on later physical and emotional health. He talked about mothers, and how so often girls are given the responsibility to take care of others and how mothers are then often given the task of mothering both their children and their partner. He explained why virtually all trauma is intergenerational, and makes a key suggestion for healing intergenerational trauma. He also spoke of the effects of the trauma of colonisation in Australia, Canada and other countries. He talked about tantrums and what he invites parents to do if their child is having tantrums. He also spoke about the schooling system and its intentions. He explained that it is unnatural for children to be away from their parents for the whole day, and what schools need to do if children being at school is necessary, so that children have emotional safety and therefore stay connected with their natural curiosity to learn. He shared the reason for the subtitle of his book, and also talked about his stance on children and screens. We are so willing for you to enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it! We so highly recommend 'The Myth of Normal' to anyone who hasn't read it yet. You can find out more about Gabor Maté at https://drgabormate.com/ 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

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

We are SO excited to talk about our book in this episode! We share behind the scenes, right from the beginning, with all the twists and turns, all the inner work and outer work, up to today, where our book is number one in several categories. We invite you to listen to our journey and we so appreciate you for listening and supporting us. Much love from us both. xoxox 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

In this episode, we ask invite you to connect in with what you don't want and what you do want this festive season. Topics include: Children's big feelings and adults' big feelings, disappointment, families, the big Santa question, and the vital importance of receiving plenty of empathy at this time of year. We share some of our own Christmas experiences with you, and talk about what we've learnt from more than two decades each of parenting. 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

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

In this episode, we talk about what we've learnt from studying, practicing and teaching Aware Parenting. We'd love to hear if you resonated with any of these from your experiences with Aware Parenting! 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

In this episode, Marion talks to Nic Wilson, an Aware Parenting instructor and certified Marion Method Mentor, from Peaceful Parenting. Nic shares many practical things she does to support her daughter in relation to school, including a lot of attachment play - she shares in chronological order, right from preparing the night before, to playing games to help her get out of bed, to games in the playground before school. She shares how other children also join in with these games in the playground too. Then Nic talks about how she helps her daughter to feel connected with her during the school day, and how she connects again after school. She offers parents ways of being powerful advocates at school, including with notes and responses in parent-teacher meetings and responses to homework. You can find out more about Nic's new online Aware Parenting Course, the Parent Alchemy Journey, at https://nicwilson.samcart.com/products/parent-alchemy-journey-course/ You can find her on Instagram at @peacefulparenting and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PeacefulParenting.com.au Her website is at: www.peacefulparenting.com.au

In this mini episode, Marion shares about her experiences of not being heard in her younger years, and how that has been showing up in her outer life again recently. She shares about the core beliefs that we can acquire as children when our parents, with the most loving of reasons, distract us from our painful feelings. She invites us to have compassion for ourselves as parents when we see the ways that we might have done that to our children, knowing that it is never too late to start listening more, whether that's to our children or ourselves. You can find it on all the usual podcast channels. 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

In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, Lael has a solo chat about what we can do when our children say ‘I hate you!’ She talks about what we can do at that moment, why we have reactions to these words and how we can find our centre to be present. Lael also discusses the reason behind these words and outbursts and how we can support our children in these moments with calm and compassion. 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

In this episode, we share deeply about how we both came to Aware Parenting via birth trauma - Lael, through wanting to help her baby heal from birth trauma, and Marion, through experiencing birth trauma as a baby herself and how that took her on a journey through developmental psychology and psychotherapy to Aware Parenting. Lael shares about the profound ways in which she supported her daughter to heal from her powerful birth experience with Aware Parenting, and Marion shares about her understanding of what babies can experience through her own birth healing journey. We also talk about specific ways you can help your baby heal from birth trauma and the importance of our own healing if we are to help our baby. We also offer reminders for deep self-compassion and deep trust in the timing and journey of healing. 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

In this episode, Marion talks to Joss, another Aware Parenting instructor, about the combination of Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. The conversation includes a description of Natural Learning and how these two philosophies complement each others, such as having a deep trust in a child's learning and development, honouring each child's differences, and following a child's interests. Also discussed is the history of schooling and the bigger cultural picture. You can find out about Joss' courses, offerings and sessions at www.awareparenting.com.au

In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, Lael sits down with her adult son Ky and interviews him about what it was like growing up with Aware Parenting. Ky shares all about his relationship to expressing feelings, how it was as a teen when he made mistakes, navigating authoritarian influences and his relationships to anger. He also speaks about working with children and his understanding of emotions, and how his relationship to his girlfriend, friends and family feel. Lael and Ky also discuss respect, discipline and connection to self and what is possible in the world. 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

We've had quite a few requests recently about how to help children express their feelings if they're not expressing them, so we decided to record this episode, called Resisting Feelings. In it, we talk about why attending to our own feelings is vital if we are to support our children in expressing theirs. We also offer specific practices for how you can help your child be more willing to express their feelings. As always, we offer you lots of compassion in this process! 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

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