When your child cries or rages over something small, it’s not a sign that something is "wrong".
Rather, it’s their innate healing response in action.
Learn how to respond to their tantrums and tears with your loving care so they can heal from stress and trauma and return to their innate state of relaxation and presence.
Many parenting approaches tell you that tantrums and tears mean that:
Aware Parenting says something radically different:
A child who is crying and raging (as long as we are lovingly present with them) is actually connected with their innate body wisdom.
They’re healing from stress and trauma.
They need our loving presence – not distraction, disconnection, or domination – to feel safe to express their big feelings with us.
Why I created this course
Back in the 90s, I was a psychotherapist, and every day, people shared feelings that they had never had heard by their parents.
They shared the deep pain of not being understood, and of not being loved.
Despite having parents who loved them, they didn't experience being loved, because their feelings had not been welcomed.
When I was pregnant in 2002, I was searching for a form of parenting that fitted with my background as both a psychotherapist and developmental psychologist (I had a PhD from Cambridge Unviersity). I wanted my children to experience that their feelings were deeply welcomed and that they were unconditionally loved.
When I found Aware Parenting, it fitted with everything I'd learnt about attachment theory, pre- and peri-natal psychology, trauma healing, and the importance of empathy and emotional attunemennt.
Yet it had this extra piece that I'd never heard of in my then-14 years of studying psychology and psychotherapy - the healing power of supported tears and tantrums.
I dived in deep to practicing Aware Parenting with my children, who are now both young adults, and I've been an Aware Parenting instructor since 2005 (20 years, as I write this).
The way Aware Parenting understands crying and raging is, in my opinion, at the forefront of knowlege of human consciousness and healing.
When we welcome the healing power of crying and raging, we
I've seen what a profound difference listening to more of a child's painful feelings makes to their lives and ours too!
In this course, I share everything I’ve learnt from my 23 years of Aware Parenting lived experience, and 20 years as an Aware Parenting instructor (as of 2025), including:
3.5+ hours of video + audios with specific and practical suggestions
48-page PDF with all the most important information written in clear and easy-to-understand ways
Lots of compassion for you and your child with warm, real-llife guidance from someone who has been walking this path for more than two decades
Invitations for self-reflection so you can trust yourself as well as your child/ren.
With Aware Parenting, we can raise a generation of children who feel loved, relaxed, and present.
You're a parent or caregiver of a child who cries a lot, or never cries (and every amount in between!)
You want to welcome your child's big feelings, but you don't know exactly how to do that
You're new to Aware Parenting, or you're already very familiar with it
You'd love to become really competent at responding with deep attunement and compassion to your child/ren's tantrums and tears
You've read about listening to feelings, but no-one has shown you the most helpful way to respond when your child is raging in the supermarket
You'd love to support your child to cry more freely, loudly, and intensely, but they often seem to dissociate when you come close and offer your loving support
You want your child to experience being unconditionally loved, however they feel
Most other parenting paradigms perceive crying in the following ways:
Always indicating an unmet need;
A sign of 'misbehaviour';
A form of 'dysregulation';
A symptom of an 'immature nervous system',
Aware Parenting sees crying in these ways:
I invite you to join me in this powerful course, where you’ll learn how to really understand your child, and what they most need from you when they're feeling and expressing their most painful feelings.
II imagine you might find that this not only helps them feel more relaxed and present, but also transforms your relationship together.
By understanding what's really going on when they are crying and raging, and how you can maximise the healing power of their tantrums and tears, you can transform their experience of their feelings, as well as your relationship.
I invite you to enroll in the Tantrums and Tears Course today, if what you've read resonates with you.
I'd love to support you to experience the deep connection and contribution that I have with my son and daughter, and that I've witnessed in thousands of other families.
Big love,
Marion
xoxox
