Challenges
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Why We Focus on the Negative Side of Our Highly Sensitive Traits
Many highly sensitive people focus on the negative side of highly sensitive traits. This post is about why we do this. But more importantly, why we should stop doing this, for the good of our physical and mental health. Being Highly Sensitive is Physically an Mentally Tiring Many HSPs experience normal life as an obstacle. There is so much going on, all the time. There are so many demands on us. The digital world draws us out and forces us to be ‘present’ elsewhere, even when we are in the comforts of our home. It expands our world, allows more upset and bad news in to our lives than we…
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Sensitive Children and the Struggle with Itchy, Ouchy Socks
Highly sensitive children and socks are often not the best of friends. Whether the socks feel itchy, the seam is uncomfortable, or a child simply prefers being barefooted, socks are at the forefront of many a clothes problem for sensitive children. Itchy, Ouchy Socks are a Common Issue If socks have been the cause of morning meltdowns in your house, then you are certainly not alone. Though that is of little consolation I know. If my kids had their way they’d walk around with nothing on their feet all the time. And whilst at home, they generally do. But at the end of the day, socks serve a purpose. Never…
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How to Help a Highly Sensitive Child Back to School After Summer Break
Is your highly sensitive child (HSC) showing little enthusiasm for their return to school after the summer break?
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Coronavirus: 6 Ways to Help a Highly Sensitive Child
Wondering how can you help your highly sensitive child through this coronavirus crisis? You are not alone. The coronavirus has put a spoke in the wheel of life. Everything that our children recognise as normal life has suddenly been brought to a halt. Schools have closed. Sports clubs have closed their doors. Activities outside school have stopped. Self isolation. Social distancing. It’s a confusing time for adults, let alone children. Routines Routines are important for all children, but particularly so for highly sensitive children. Try to keep your child to some kind of daily routine. This will help your child cope better with the fact that school has closed because…
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Motherhood is Hard. Especially in January.
Motherhood is easy. Said no one ever. We all have weeks when things seem to run more smoothly than other weeks. And we have weeks that feel they will never end and the demand on us is incessant. Motherhood is hard. That’s a fact. Another fact is that our highly sensitive children need us A LOT during the bump in the calendar that is January! First a Mother One thing I have learnt (the hard way) as the years have gone by is that no matter how much I love writing, my blogs and helping others with their highly sensitive children (HSC), my role as mother to my three HSCs…
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7 Reasons Your Highly Sensitive Child Struggles with Sports Lessons
It’s common that a highly sensitive child struggles with sport. But with some careful consideration and planning you can help your highly sensitive child cope better with swimming lessons or lesson time in the school gym. The Problem isn’t the Sport Itself “Does anyone else deal with tantrums, meltdowns or outright refusals to participate when it comes to the weekly swimming lesson?” It’s a common question asked in groups of parents of highly sensitive children (HSCs). Many of us have a highly sensitive child that struggles with sport. These struggles are particularly valid around getting a child to swimming lessons. Or we have to deal after school with the impact that school…
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Not Happy Labelling Your Child? Think Instruction Manual Instead
Labelling a child feels uncomfortable. It feels like we are saddling our children with a label that may be hard to get rid of in the future. There is another way: share your child’s instruction manual with teachers and other professionals involved with your child. Labelling a Child In School One mother of a highly sensitive child (HSC) whose child had just started primary school shared that her child was struggling in the classroom. There were tantrums and tears at home. The teacher was being less than understanding about her daughter’s need for quiet time to recharge. She failed to grasp just how overwhelming the school environment was for her daughter.…
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Nobody Else Decides What Makes a Good Mother
What makes a mother a good mother? Are you fed up of judgement and well meant advice? As mothers we all travel different paths. We all make different decisions. We do things differently. And as parents of highly sensitive children, we know more than we care to about other people judging us. So what makes a good mother? Only you decide that. The Parenting Choices We Make As parents we all make different choices, depending on our circumstances. Single Mother Like that single mother who must work part time to make ends meet. She is also trying to be around as much as she can for her two children. Her…
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What’s Important About Making Friends as a Highly Sensitive Child?
Highly sensitive people tend to go for quality over quantity when it comes to making friends. One really good friend is worth much more than a handful of people to hang with. And the same can be said of highly sensitive children. Making friends as a highly sensitive person is not always easy, but when a friendship is made it’s worth its weight in gold. The good news is that, often, a child knows themselves what they need when it comes to making friends. And that’s important to know. Chalk and Cheese On any given day my 5-year-old runs out of school at lunchtime and bombards me with requests to…
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Parenting a Highly Sensitive Child: The Art of Acceptance & Closing Our Ears
If you are parenting a highly sensitive child you will learn what is best for your child as you go along. You’ll find yourself adapting your parenting style along the way. Listening to those on the outside looking in is a recipe for disaster. If you are parenting a highly sensitive child you need to learn to trust your instinct. Highly Sensitive Babies are High Needs Babies For the first three months of their lives my three sons cried a lot. My eldest, like clockwork, cried between 7pm and 10pm each and every night. The rest of the time he struggled to settle for sleeps in his bed, only being…
