Helping You Live in Harmony with Your Highly Sensitive Child
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Parents of Highly Sensitive Children often struggle with getting their child to sleep. HSCs often have trouble falling asleep when overstimulated, and they tend to have more nightmares, too. This video tackles two big questions: What can I do about sleep issues? and How can I tell if my child is Highly Sensitive?
If we love our children unconditionally, it makes sense to believe that connection should follow naturally, and it can feel frustrating and confusing when it doesn’t. Here are a few strategies you can use to help strengthen your connection with your child throughout your day to day life.
I’ve been talking a lot lately about how to stay calm and respond to your child when they are having a melt-down or expressing a big emotion. These are important tools to have in our parenting tool kit because melt-downs happen, and responding calmly and compassionately can make a huge difference. This week I want …
Last week’s post explored exclusionary language and the power of addressing the underlying issue rather than just shutting down the behavior. This week is a follow up. A continuation of the story. If you haven’t read it, you can revisit it here. To sum up, though, my daughter has been struggling with accepting a new …
This post is the first in a two part series about temperament. Next week’s post will focus on the different temperament traits, so stay tuned. I want to tell you a story about two babies. The first baby, Chloe, is easy-going and sleeps on a schedule. She laughs easily and isn’t phased by much. She …
High spirited. Strong willed. Emotional. Prone to tantrums and meltdowns. Bossy. Picky. A child who matches any of these descriptors could be highly sensitive, and Highly Sensitive Children are uniquely challenging to parent. They often don’t respond well to old school discipline, and it can be hard to find solutions that works. They often leave …
“To empathize with someone is to understand what he is feeling or, more properly, to understand what you would feel like if you were in his situation.” —Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D, “How Children Develop Empathy” We want our children to grow into compassionate adults. We know that they must develop empathy in order for this to …
As a child, I was very sensitive to adult’s feelings of frustration, especially when their emotions escalated into yelling. I hated when adults yelled, even if they were yelling at my classmates or teammates and not at me directly. My sixth grade soccer coach yelled so much that I was close to giving up soccer. I …