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In this episode, we talk all about extended family, focussing mostly on grandparents. We share lots of different ideas about how to navigate the journey of parenting in ways that are different from our parents. This includes caring for the younger parts of ourselves, being advocates for our children, and differentiating our children's experience with our parents from what we experienced growing up in our family of origin.
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 Inner Loving Presence Process course here:
http://www.innerlovingpresenceprocess.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 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
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In this episode, we discuss why parenting can be one of the greatest forms of activism. If we realise the power we have as parents and how that can help us reconnect with a sense of agency. Your parenting makes a difference. Your parenting is social change. You are co-creating a new cultural paradigm.
We talk about politicians and the little children inside them, and what a huge difference your parenting is making as you choose to come from connection and compassion, instead of powerlessness and pain.
This week’s invitation:
1. What have you done differently with your child, that wasn't done or held for you?
2. What do you want your activism in life to look like, especially in your family?
Resources
Robin Grille - Parenting for a Peaceful World.
As always, you can head over to the Aware Parenting Podcast Facebook group and join in the discussion, or you’ll find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast
You can find Marion at marionrose.net and Lael at laelstone.com.au
And if you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe to the podcast so we can pop into your podcast feed.
Sending you much love, compassion and grace in your parenting journey.
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In this week's episode we talk all about raising teenagers and the edges they may explore as well the edges we may need to feel into in raising them. We look at how our own imprints in our teenage years can affect how we parent and what teenagers are asking for as they grow.
[2.20] How raising teens can ask us to look deeply into our own stories
[5.25] The cultural lens around teenagers
[8:50] Teenagers finding their purpose
[10.42] What are your fears around raising teens?
[13.35] What did you need as a teen and can you give that to your children?
[17.04] Raising children who have tools to navigate life
[20.00] Having difficult conversations around sex and drugs
[22.00] Are we placing expectations on our children?
[26.40] Trusting teenagers' autonomy and timing
[29.40] How do you want you teenager to feel about you and your support?
[31.10] Taking a pause when we don’t know how to navigate things
[33.00] Our base guide for raising teens
This week’s invitation:
1. Do you have a charged phrase around your teen and would you like to listen into where that comes from?
2. What did you need when you were a teen and can you bring that to yourself and your teen?
Resources
Lael’s course : https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-for-tweens-and-teens/
8 week Immersion : https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-online-immersion/
As always, you can head over to the Aware Parenting Podcast Facebook group and join in the discussion, or you’ll find us on Instagram @theawareparentingpodcast
You can find Marion at marionrose.net and Lael at laelstone.com.au
And if you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe to the podcast so we can pop into your podcast feed.
Sending you much love, compassion and grace in your parenting journey.
x
Lael and Marion -
In this episode, we explain why aggression happens, and how we can respond to that root cause in ways that are both effective and empathic.
We differentiate between expression, regression and aggression, and we talk about how we can support our children to move from aggression to healthy expression.
We discuss how important it is for us to do our own inner work so that we have the capacity to be with our child’s feelings of powerlessness, frustration and outrage.
We describe Loving Limits in detail and explain why the language we use in Loving Limits is so important.
We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed recording it for you!
Recommended reading:
Aletha Solter - Tears and Tantrums
Aletha Solter - Cooperative and Connected
Offerings from us:
Marion
Why is My Child? Series:
https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/why-is-my-child-series/
Powerlessness, Power-over and Power-with in Parenting Masterclass
https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/powerlessness-power-over-and-power-with-in-parenting-masterclass/
Making Friends with Children’s Feelings Course
http://www.makingfriendswithchildrensfeelings.com/course/
Lael
Aware Parenting Immersion:
To explore the deeper imprints from our childhoods and how they turn up in our parenting.
Aware Parenting for Couples:
Coming Soon!
You can find all the details at www.laelstone.com.au
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
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In this podcast, we talk about understanding the three causes for fear and anxiety, and how we can address each of those causes, whether that’s for our child or ourselves.
We share stories about our own experiences with fear, anxiety and terror, and how we’ve helped ourselves and our children through experiences where fear and anxiety have showed up.
Understanding fear and anxiety, and changing our relationship to it, can transform our experience with it.
Likewise, knowing how we can help our children, both preventatively, in the moment and afterwards, can help us feel more relaxed and centred, which is exactly how we need to be to support our children when they’re feeling anxious.
Lael's upcoming offerings:
Aware Parenting Course for Couples - coming October
https://laelstone.com.au/online-courses/
8 Week Aware Parenting Immersion starts 12th October https://laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-immersion-level-1/
Marion's relevant courses:
Attachment Play Course:
http://www.attachmentplaycourses.com/join-in
Making Friends with Children's Feelings Course: 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
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In this episode, we talk about the transitions we are invited to go through in parenting, as we reflect back on our own parenting journeys so far.
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
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In this episode, we talk about disappointment - including how it is often seen as a ‘lesser’ feeling, differentiating the feeling from the judgment, and offering helpful ways we can be with our own disappointment and that of our child/ren.
We share about our own experiences of disappointment and how we came to embrace it in ourselves and our children, and discovered the gifts that it brings.
You can find out about Lael's Aware Parenting for couples course here: https://laelstone.com.au/
You can find out about Marion's Inner Loving Presence Process course here: http://www.innerlovingpresenceprocess.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 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
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In this podcast, Lael talks with her mother, Barbara Stone, about archetypes.
After our last podcast on The Crown and Aware Parenting, we talked about archetypes and we had lots of requests from you, our listeners, to hear from Lael’s mum.
At the beginning of the conversation, Barbara shares about being a grandmother and what she has learnt in her journey as a grandparent and what she has learnt from Aware Parenting.
In this beautiful mother-daughter, grandmother-mother conversation, Lael and Barbara talk about parenting, healing, archetypes and lots more.
You can find out more about Barbara's work at:
https://www.archetypechartreadings.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 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
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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
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In this episode, there are two sections. In the first part, we talk to Sally Prinn and Sean Dixon, who share their experience of the birth trauma that they and their son Cedar experienced.
They talk about how they helped their son heal from the birth trauma with Aware Parenting, and their own parallel journey. And they share about the song and video Sean created to bring awareness to birth trauma and the impact that a traumatic birth can have on an entire family's life.
You can watch the video of the song Birth Trauma: A Father's Journey on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvHqmOSP1c
You can find Sean's website here: www.sankalpamusic.com.
and on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/sankalpa_music/
and Sally here: https://www.instagram.com/sallyprinn/
In the second part of the episode, Lael and Marion talk about other specific ways both parents and babies (or children) can heal from birth trauma.
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/
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
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In today’s episode we talk about boundaries, or what Marion calls “saying no.”
We explain the innate capacity we all have to know when we feel a ‘yes’ and when we feel a ’no,’ and how growing up in a colonised culture disconnects us from easily knowing and expressing our “no’s.”
We share about how experiences of having love removed when we said “no”, or being shamed or punished, lead us to feel uncomfortable with clearly speaking our “no” as adults.
Lael talks about inviting parents to reflect on their imprints from what happened in their families growing up, and how that is impacting them now.
Lael also shares reasons why parents can be reluctant to say, “no” to their children, which can include knowing that saying “no” will help children connect with either disappointment about not getting their needs met, or bigger feelings that were causing unenjoyable behaviour in the first place.
We both talk about how reconnecting with and befriending our childhood experiences of powerlessness and outrage is an important stage of the journey.
Marion talks about the difference between when we simply don’t want to do something and when we want to stop something unenjoyable from happening, either with a child or an adult.
In the first scenario, we might simply say “no” to our child or another adult when we don’t want to do something.
In the second scenario, we can set a Loving Limit with a child who is hitting, biting or throwing - (saying “no” to the behaviour and “yes” to the feelings that are causing the behaviour), and we can express a Neo No to an adult.
As we were talking, we both get really passionate about how important it is for mothers to reclaim our capacity to say a Neo No within the domination system, particularly in birth and parenting.
We LOVED recording this and wonder if you love it too!
Lael's upcoming offerings:
Aware Parenting Course for Couples - coming October
laelstone.com.au/online-courses/
8 Week Aware Parenting Immersion starts 12th October laelstone.com.au/courses/aware-parenting-immersion-level-1/
Marion's relevant offerings:
Making Friends with Children's Feelings Course
(includes Loving Limits):
www.makingfriendswithchildrensfeelings.com/course
Powerlessness, power-over and power-with in parenting Masterclass:
https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/powerlessness-power-over-and-power-with-in-parenting-masterclass/
Power and Powerlessness in Parenting Course:
http://www.powerandpowerlessnessinparenting.com/invitation/
The Wonder of Willingness:
https://www.thewonderofwillingness.com/course/
Psychospiritual Parenting Online Workshop:
https://marionrose.samcart.com/products/psychospiritual-parenting-online-workshop/
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
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In this episode of The Aware Parenting Podcast, we discuss setting limits with teens and how we can create opportunities for healing and growth.
We explored our reactions and responses and what teens might be needing when they are upset.
We looked at the different reasons teens may be looking for limits and how looking behind the behaviour can be helpful.
We also discussed the power of connection to elicit co-operation and how using punishments can create more unwanted behaviour.
As always, we delved into our own internal stories and what could be helpful when meeting big feelings in our teenagers and what we may have wanted from the adults in our life when we were younger.
It's available on all the usual podcast channels.
Relevant offerings:
Lael's Aware Parenting for Tweens and Teens Workshop: https://laelstone.com.au/workshops/aware-parenting-for-tweens-and-teens/
Aware Parenting Immersion (Level 2): 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
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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
