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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
This was illuminating. I found myself nodding along throughout the book, as I learned I am a highly sensitive person as well. This book helped me to understand how to approach new situations with my HSC, and the language to use when describing him.
Good information - helps normalize child anxieties and provides helpful insight into guiding them through all sorts of challenges. I found it a good resource for both my kids - sensitive or not. Easy to pick and choose applicable suggestions. I thought the adolescent/young adult advice might be too coddling - but my children aren't there yet, so I probably should t judge.
I liked a lot of the information here and think it definitely applies to my child, but it's also a flawed book and did feel dated. The teenage chapter in particular was very heteronormative, with absolutely no mention of gender identity or LBGTQ+ kids. I also didn't care for the part at the beginning where she casually relates a story about using physical abuse to train a puppy (or matter of factly equates pit bulls to aggression). Overall I appreciated the concrete advice about HSCs but when it veered into more subjective parenting advice, it got questionable for me. I don't know if I would recommend this book; I'm going to read a few others on the same subject to see if there is one that is more aligned with my personal philosophies. (My absolute favorite parenting book so far is "The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids" by Iben Dissing Sandahl)
A lot of this book seemed redundant to me, but the general explanation and advice for sensitive children is good.
This book was definitely useful for framing and understanding a personality trait that my kid *definitely* has. I wish I’d had it when he was much smaller. We figured out a lot of the advice on how to manage a highly sensitive child, but by trial and error, and the error were generally not fun. I did learn some new things and get some new ideas.
A little torn on how to rate this book. Our son is what I would consider highly sensitive, so in an attempt to understand him a little better (and, by extension, to understand that I am actually a highly sensitive individual as well), I gave this book a go.
The positives: I learned a little more about what it means to be highly sensitive especially for young children. I learned about myself and some of the things I did as a kid, how adults try to cope, etc. It had nice sections for age groups (toddler, kid, teenager) and it was helpful to know the age range of our kids.
The...negatives? Not-so-positives?: The book really isn't helpful in terms of how to help highly sensitive kids. I mean, there is some advice, but it oscillates from "expect your child to do this, don't do this, but your kid may be different so take that into account..." Basically, take any parenting book and apply it here and you'll probably find something that works. I'm trying to not be overly harsh, because I don't think that's fair for what the author was intending and trying to do, but I also don't think I'd recommend this as a be-all, end-all for parenting a HSC. In fact, I think this could have been distilled into a shorter essay rather than an entire book (surprise, most parenting and self-help books take one thing and stretch it out over 300 pages).
Overall, I think it helped me understand *what* an HSC is and how they think, but the actuall *what to do* was less than helpful.
The positives: I learned a little more about what it means to be highly sensitive especially for young children. I learned about myself and some of the things I did as a kid, how adults try to cope, etc. It had nice sections for age groups (toddler, kid, teenager) and it was helpful to know the age range of our kids.
The...negatives? Not-so-positives?: The book really isn't helpful in terms of how to help highly sensitive kids. I mean, there is some advice, but it oscillates from "expect your child to do this, don't do this, but your kid may be different so take that into account..." Basically, take any parenting book and apply it here and you'll probably find something that works. I'm trying to not be overly harsh, because I don't think that's fair for what the author was intending and trying to do, but I also don't think I'd recommend this as a be-all, end-all for parenting a HSC. In fact, I think this could have been distilled into a shorter essay rather than an entire book (surprise, most parenting and self-help books take one thing and stretch it out over 300 pages).
Overall, I think it helped me understand *what* an HSC is and how they think, but the actuall *what to do* was less than helpful.
I think it's not 100% on the mark for everything but has a lot of important information and great strategies. I got insight into myself as well as my child.
informative
slow-paced