How to Better Understand and Accept Your Highly Sensitive Child
Understanding and accepting your highly sensitive child allows you to focus on what matters rather than being distracted by what doesn’t.
Understanding and accepting your highly sensitive child allows you to focus on what matters rather than being distracted by what doesn’t.
It is critical to instill boundaries in your highly sensitive child so that they can transform from dependent child to independent adult.
Sensitive kids need the “mama bear” approach — just enough stimulation, but not too much.
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.
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.
It is important for boys to see their sensitivity in a positive light. Teach your son that high sensitivity is a blessing, not a burden.
Yes, it’s perfectly normal if you see me stress baking or tearing up at the slightest thing (like a sweet text from my daughter).
“Mommy, why do you get so nervous when Daddy gets pulled over by the police?”
Sensitive children can act out in big ways. What they’re trying to say is they don’t know what to do with their feelings.
Their feelings about food may have a lot to do with overstimulation.
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