Helping You Live in Harmony with Your Highly Sensitive Child
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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. …
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 a solution that works. They often …
“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 …
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