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…
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What is the Parenting Goal with a Highly Sensitive child?
What is the parenting goal with a highly sensitive child? It’s not a trick question but as parents of highly sensitive children we often doubt ourselves. Raising a child who…
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Embrace Highly Sensitive Person Traits and Start a New Chapter
Understanding your highly sensitive person traits, learning to love them, and embracing them is key to being a happy sensitive person. Many highly sensitive people have at some point in…
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Finding My Quiet Place in the World – Surrounded by Thousands of People
My quiet place is a strange one, because for many it’s not quiet at all. I mentioned in a recent post I went to my first Dutch eredivisie football match…
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Challenges of Parenting and Getting It Right The First Time
Hands up those of you who really knew about the challenges of parenting. Who really knew about the challenges of parenting?Who knew parenthood meant being the expert on so many…
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6 Things Highly Sensitive Children (and Their Parents) Can Learn from the Movie Inside Out
We went last week as a family to see Disney Pixar’s Inside Out. The chatter about the movie has been immense so for the first time in almost forever I…
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How to Practice Yoga with a Child – and Why You Should by Giselle Shardlow
For a highly sensitive child down time is important, even more important than for a non-highly sensitive child. For those of you reading who are highly sensitive parents you will…
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Book Review: Angel Violet’s Magic Wings
Bonnie Snyde is the writer of Angel Violet’s Magic Wings and Alissa Shouts the illustrator. Snyde wrote the book with highly sensitive children aged 4 to 8 in mind. The…
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Tip: Highly Sensitive Children and Their Deepest Feelings
Highly sensitive people think deeply. They process deeply. They consider all options. And this applies to highly sensitive children too. Consequently, they have big feelings! Here’s a tip for talking…
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How to Prepare a Highly Sensitive Child for a Medical Appointment
Ever been frustrated taking your highly sensitive child (HSC) to a medical appointment for the first time? Many parents of HSCs are faced with stressful scenarios. Sometimes there are tears…
