Welcome to Happy Sensitive Kids.
This blog is about inspiring and supporting parents to raise confident highly sensitive children who flourish, not in spite of, but because of their sensitive traits.
I first heard the term highly sensitive child back in 2010, coincidentally twice in the same week.
My son’s nursery school teacher said she thought my 3 year old may be highly sensitive.
A few days later my father-in-law, a family therapist, said the same thing.
I started reading, and I haven’t looked back. Elaine Aron’s The Highly Sensitive Person website told me everything I needed to know, and my journey as a mother of a highly sensitive child started there.
Since then we have had ups and downs as a family of five, finding our way through a world of parenting children who feel that bit more than other children, who observe more, see more, understand more – who wear their hearts on their sleeves.
Highly sensitive is a beautiful thing to be. But there are challenges too.
Parents need support.
Our highly sensitive children also need support, and they need acceptance and understanding. They don’t need a diagnosis. They need nurturing. They need to know it is okay to be themselves in a world that doesn’t always give them that impression.
This blog is for all of you parenting, caring for, or educating a highly sensitive child. It’s for all parents who are themselves also highly sensitive. It’s a place for support, a place to help nurture our highly sensitive children, so that our children are happy sensitive kids.
I love hearing from you so please feel free to contact me, ask questions, share insights. After all, it is from each other that we learn.
Best wishes,