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How to Teach a Sensitive Child to Have Healthy Boundaries — And Change Their Life Forever

It is critical to instill boundaries in your highly sensitive child so that they can transform from dependent child to independent adult.

Dating can be tricky for a highly sensitive person, but by using our HSP gifts — like our intuition — it can be enjoyable more than overwhelming.

Sensitive kids need the “mama bear” approach — just enough stimulation, but not too much.

HSPs want their partners to understand that getting alone time — separately — makes time together even better.

Healthy HSP friendships deeply support each other, using listening as a two-way street.

When you’re parenting a highly sensitive child, the most important thing is to accept them for who they are, not who you expect them to be.

You can help sensitive kids thrive by encouraging them to use their HSP qualities as guiding forces — vs. roadblocks — to their success.

One clear sign you’re in a healthy relationship as a highly sensitive person is you don’t feel you have to hide your sensitivity.

They need us to put what they feel into words that teachers will understand.

Highly sensitive people get overstimulated easily — and when you’re a pregnant HSP, this is magnified even more so.

As an HSP, I’ve discovered some key strategies that serve as “relationship fertilizer” — they help strengthen and fortify my marriage.

“Mommy, why do you get so nervous when Daddy gets pulled over by the police?”