7 Ways Being an HSP Can Help You Raise One
Being a highly sensitive parent to a highly sensitive child can strengthen your bond — it’s like a secret language you share.
Being a highly sensitive parent to a highly sensitive child can strengthen your bond — it’s like a secret language you share.
Understanding and accepting your highly sensitive child allows you to focus on what matters rather than being distracted by what doesn’t.
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.
Highly sensitive people get overstimulated easily — and when you’re a pregnant HSP, this is magnified even more so.
“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.
Your sensitivities might get more extreme — or just *different.*
They get overstimulated easily and need downtime. But try explaining that to a six-year-old.
We need to encourage highly sensitive children to love their sensitivity from a young age. Here’s what they need to hear from the adults in their lives.
As a kid, I would never have been able to get on stage or own a room, but both of my highly sensitive children do exactly that. Here’s the secret.
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