The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them Author: Elaine Aron | Language: English | ISBN:
B000FC1IJ0 | Format: EPUB
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them Description
The bestselling author and psychologist whose books have topped 240,000 copies in print now addresses the trait of “high sensitivity” in children–and offers a breakthrough parenting guidebook for highly sensitive children and their caregivers.
With the publication of
The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of “high sensitivity” and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Up to 20 percent of the population is born highly sensitive, and now in
The Highly Sensitive Child, Aron shifts her focus to highly sensitive children, who share the same characteristics as highly sensitive adults and thus face unique challenges as they grow up.
Rooted in Aron’s years of experience as a psychotherapist and her original research on child temperament,
The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling, they can become unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. Few parents and teachers understand where this behavior comes from–and as a result, HSCs are often mislabeled as overly inhibited, fearful, or “fussy,”or classified as “problem children” (and in some cases, misdiagnosed with disorders such as Attention Deficit Disorder). But raised with proper understanding and care, HSCs are no more prone to these problems than nonsensitive children and can grow up to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults.
In this pioneering work, parents will find helpful self-tests and case studies to help them understand their HSC, along with thorough advice on:
• The challenges of raising an highly sensitive child
• The four keys to successfully parenting an HSC
• How to soothe highly sensitive infants
• Helping sensitive children survive in a not-so-sensitive world
• Making school and friendships enjoyable
With chapters addressing the needs of specific age groups, from newborns through teens,
The Highly Sensitive Child delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the sensitive children in their lives.
From the Trade Paperback edition.- File Size: 575 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: B008CBDOQG
- Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition (October 8, 2002)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000FC1IJ0
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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My 3-year-old is highly sensitive and at the same time quite extroverted and expressive - a very explosive mix, I can tell you...my husband and I were at our wit's end a lot of times, our son had frequent tantrums about small things (at least, they seemed small to us), people either didn't believe us when we told them how our son acts or told us we were spoiling him and that's why he still doesn't want to mix pasta with tomato sauce or starts crying when we put his hot dog on the same plate as the potatoes...he refuses to walk barefoot anywhere, makes a fuss about wet or sandy clothes...all these things that are described in the book! Reading the book felt like reading a book about my own son. Ok, not all of it applies to him but that's probably mostly because he belongs to the extroverted minority of the highly sensitive people.
This books offers great practical advice for all age groups and covers all kinds of topics (food, sleep, leaving your child with someone else, how to build up self-esteem...)I have already applied some of the advice in our daily routine with a lot fo success. However, I also found out that we have already done a lot of things right intuitively. So not all of it is new information to me but it helps to have my approach confirmed by an expert because people (including well-meaning relatives) keep telling us that we spoil our child and should push him harder. As parents with a highly sensitive child we often feel isolated from other parents (who e.g. can take their children to an indoor swimming pool for the first time and their children actually don't go crazy because of all the new input) and it is simply nice to find out that all this is really not so unusual, that there are lots of other kids around who are like our son.
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