Parenting the Highly Sensitive Child: A Guide for Parents & Caregivers of ADHD, Indigo and Highly Sensitive Children

by Julie B. Rosenshein

Ms. Rosenshein provides a hands-on approach for helping you and your highly sensitive child. In Parenting the Highly Sensitive Child you will find solutions that work and are easy to apply to home life, school life and your child’s emotional world. You will also What a highly sensitive child is and how it ties into ADHD The 4 types of sensitive children Tips & Tools for helping your sensitive child make it in a less than sensitive world

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

154 pages, Paperback

First published April 22, 2013

Reviews

[Taylor Lampone · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are about to dive into this book then you are probably one of two things. 1. A parent or concerned loved one of a child that you suspect is highly sensitive or 2. A medical professional who is interested in learning more about highly sensitive children.
I am the first, a parent who is looking to help their child deal with these strong emotions she displays. In my house there are frequent meltdowns over getting ready for school, what to wear to school, crying episodes daily at school, meltdowns after school, arguments over what is prepared for dinner, and other things. You may be reading this and thinking that my child is just spoiled or entitled, but that isn’t the case.
This book is a great place to start. Right off the bat, we are thrown an alarming statistic about how many children in the US are prescribed stimulants to treat ADHD. Because it probably seems that these children are impulsive and destructive so we must treat it with medicine, right?
However, in these pages you will hear of the struggles highly sensitive children face and think “well no wonder they act out”. Things truly are very stimulating and overwhelming for them.
Our job as parents, loved ones, or processionals is to help them embrace their differences and guide them in coping in productive ways. Traditional parenting skills go out the window with highly sensitive children. We have to take a different approach.
This book helps you change your way of thinking and interacting with a highly sensitive child. It provides examples of how you can frame things differently and work on having more of a connection with your child instead of arguments day after day.
This book is truly a great place to start on your quest to better equip the highly sensitive child in your life.

[Armandina Machado · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very intuitive, very helpful, lots of practical advice and tips!