The Aware Parenting Podcast

The Aware Parenting Podcast

The Aware Parenting Podcast is based on Aware Parenting which was created by Aletha Solter, PhD. Marion Rose, PhD is a level two Aware Parenting instructor and the regional coordinator for Australia and New Zealand. The podcast explores all aspects of parenting and reparenting from an Aware Parenting perspective.

Episodes

Episode 236: How to help children cooperate with Maru Rojas

August 18, 2025 • 55 mins
I'm so delighted that Maru Rojas, an Aware Parenting instructor in London, originally from Mexico, is back on the podcast again. Maru was on episodes 129 and 184. Maru and I discuss the nuances of helping children cooperate and understand the world around them. Maru shares examples of how providing information to babies and children can make everyday tasks like hair brushing, nail cutting, and applying sunscreen easier. We emphas...
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Episode 235: Calm Down Bob, Before Bed

July 29, 2025 • 8 mins
In this episode, I read my second Aware Parenting children's book, "Calm Down Bob, Before Bed!" I love this book, which was illustrated by Linda Valere! You can buy a copy of the book here: - 🇦🇺 Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1763807576 - 🇺🇸 United States: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1763807576 - 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1763807576 - 🇨🇦 Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1763807576 - 🇩🇪 Germa...
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Episode 234: Embodying loving limits

June 16, 2025 • 43 mins
In this episode, I dive into the concept of embodying loving limits: a term I coined to describe the process which is integral to the Aware Parenting approach created by Aletha Solter, PhD. I share my experiences and challenges that I faced in practicing loving limits, both with my daughter and son. I also emphasise how the practice of loving limits contrasts with typical authoritarian or permissive parenting models. I highligh...
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Episode 233: The secret wisdom of crying and raging

June 7, 2025 • 46 mins
In this episode, I take a meander through the surprising beauty of welcoming children's crying and raging. You can find my new course here: https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/tantrums-and-tears-course 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_/ h...
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Episode 232: Help your child stop hitting

April 30, 2025 • 27 mins
There are many different beliefs about why children hit, and based on those beliefs, what the most helpful response to a hitting child is. Old religious paradigms believed that children were innately evil or bad and needed to be shamed and punished into being 'good'. Behaviourism believed that children needed to be taught through punishments, or removal of rewards, to teach children to stop hitting. Cognitive paradigms believed ...
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Episode 231: How Aware Parenting creates transformation with Linde Lambrechts

April 21, 2025 • 59 mins
Join me as I welcome Linde Lambrechts back on the podcast! Linde is an Aware Parenting instructor, Psychotherapist and Psychologist. Linde was a guest on episode 210, where she shared an experience that I found deeply moving. In this episode, Linde shares her profound journey with Aware Parenting, discussing the transition from mainstream parenting to understanding the true causes of behaviours in children and adults. We explo...
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Episode 230: My first children's book ~ 'I Love You, However You Feel'

April 1, 2025 • 13 mins
Welcome to The Aware Parenting Podcast! In this special episode, I celebrate the launch of my first children's book, "I Love You, However You Feel," by reading it aloud. I highlight the unique nature of the book, which uses flower photographs to help convey nuanced feelings. Emphasising the importance of deep presence and unconditional love, I invite you to connect deeply with your child or children while reading this book. I al...
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Episode 229: Why crying is so important

April 1, 2025 • 48 mins
In this episode, I talk about why I believe crying is so important in children (from an Aware Parenting perspective) and for adults (from a Marion Method perspective). I emphasise that in Aware Parenting, crying is a vital natural healing response for children, enabling them to release stress and trauma. I connect emotional disconnection in adults to societal issues and suggest that many violent and harmful behaviours stem from ...
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Episode 228: Separation anxiety

March 20, 2025 • 43 mins
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 feeling...
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Episode 227: Helping children cooperate with toothbrushing

March 18, 2025 • 39 mins
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...
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Episode 226: The long-term effects of attachment play with Alex Letham

March 17, 2025 • 67 mins
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 at...
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Episode 225: A Clinical Psychologist and Aware Parenting instructor with Dr. Jessica Klug

March 16, 2025 • 42 mins
In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Jessica Klug, who is a Clinical Psychologist and an Aware Parenting instructor. Jess shares her journey of being deeply passionate about understanding parenting. Her doctoral research was on the impact of parental exposure to to traumatic and stressful life events on parenting practices and child psychological wellbeing and outcomes. Then she became a mother, and realised that none of...
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Episode 224: A Social Worker also becomes an Aware Parenting instructor with Meg Rankin

March 1, 2025 • 45 mins
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 be...
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Episode 223: I'm celebrating 20 years as an Aware Parenting instructor

March 1, 2025 • 7 mins
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...
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Episode 222: A birthkeeper also becomes an Aware Parenting instructor with Daniela Ekman

February 25, 2025 • 32 mins
I'm so delighted to welcome on to the podcast Daniela Ekman, who is an Aware Parenting instructor and birthkeeper. Daniela shares about how she uses a lot of ancestral traditions and wisdom from South America in her work as a birthkeeper. She is from Venezuela. Daniela shares about her calling to become a birthkeeper, and the deep connection that she has with babies. This deep connection with babies is also what called her to bec...
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Episode 221: "The journey to becoming myself" with Carly Facius

February 25, 2025 • 52 mins
I'm so delighted that Carly Facius has returned to the podcast for the 6th time. She was also on episodes 149, 154, 159, 199, and 202. Carly is a mother of three, Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, holds a Master of Primary Maternity Care, and is an Aware Parenting instructor. Carly shares about the very beginning of her journey to becoming an Aware Parenting instructor, which was when her Mu...
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Episode 220: From sleep deprived mum to Aware Parenting instructor with Nic Wilson

February 25, 2025 • 68 mins
In this episode, I welcome back Nic Wilson, who was also in the last episode. This marks the return to talking about Aware Parenting, and is the first episode in a mini-series about people's journeys to become Aware Parenting instructors. Please note that Nic shares about going through a very tough time of three years of her daughter waking up every 45 minutes and feeling desperate and in her own words, "very low". Nic then talk...
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Episode 219: The power of reparenting with Nic Wilson

February 25, 2025 • 68 mins
This is the last episode in the series about reparenting with The Marion Method. In this episode, I welcome Nic Wilson, who is a Marion Method Mentor and Aware Parenting instructor. Nic shares about how she first came to The Marion Method 7 years ago, in a 1:1 willingness mentoring session with me. She talks about the power of reparenting with The Marion Method, including how our relationships with our Inner Loving Presences can...
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Episode 218: I'm sending you love on Valentine's Day

February 13, 2025 • 29 mins
This is another episode about reparenting with The Marion Method. It's not about Aware Parenting. In this episode, which I recorded on Valentine's Day 2025, I share how you can use the Inner Beloved Practice or connecting with the Soul Version of your partner or ex-partner. I also picked a card from my Loving Presences Oracle Cards for you, and spoke some Inner Beloved phrases to you. If you want to learn more about The Marion M...
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Episode 217: How the Marion Method can help our relationship with our partner or ex-partner

February 10, 2025 • 28 mins
This is another episode of the reparenting series, which is based on The Marion Method, not reparenting. As parents, our relationships with our partners and exes can have a huge effect on our children. I love supporting my mentees, either in 1:1, or them as a couple, to use The Marion Method maps and practices to bring about deeper connection, harmony, and healing in their relationships. In this episode, I share the maps and pra...
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