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The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
Elaine N. Aron
3.76 AVERAGE
101 reviews for:
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
Elaine N. Aron
3.76 AVERAGE
I gasped in recognition so many times while reading this book, seeing either myself, my husband, or my son described in its pages. All three of us, I've learned in reading this and taking the tests herein, are Highly Sensitive People, which manifests itself in different strengths, peculiarities, and struggles for each of us. (Bully for us! Sort of.) I picked this up from my local library after entering a new and often difficult phase with my expressive, intuitive, often intense, and sometimes tempestuous five-year-old. I wasn't sure if he was Highly Sensitive, or even what exactly "highly sensitive" meant, though it sounded like an apt enough descriptor. Now I know my son is, specifically, what Elaine N. Aron describes as a "drama queen or tough rebel," an even stranger and more difficult subset of the already strange and difficult highly sensitive, and oof, good luck with that, she says.
This is a dense book, and I admit that after a couple hundred pages, my eyes started to glaze over at the long listed guidelines for how to deal with general problem areas of parenting throughout the course of my child's entire life (Elaine Aron covers infanthood to young adulthood). Much of the parenting advice is pretty standard with gentle/respectful parenting, and as such was familiar to me. So the real take away, for me personally, was just recognizing and giving definition to things I have struggled with my entire life, and the things I now see my son struggling with. I feel so much more confident in parenting intuitively, even when our decisions (such as not enforcing standard sit-down meal times) appear a little left of center and better equipped to explain our reasoning when need be.
This is a dense book, and I admit that after a couple hundred pages, my eyes started to glaze over at the long listed guidelines for how to deal with general problem areas of parenting throughout the course of my child's entire life (Elaine Aron covers infanthood to young adulthood). Much of the parenting advice is pretty standard with gentle/respectful parenting, and as such was familiar to me. So the real take away, for me personally, was just recognizing and giving definition to things I have struggled with my entire life, and the things I now see my son struggling with. I feel so much more confident in parenting intuitively, even when our decisions (such as not enforcing standard sit-down meal times) appear a little left of center and better equipped to explain our reasoning when need be.