The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You

by Elaine N. Aron

All parents are short on time, highly sensitive or not. But if you’re highly sensitive, you have to be even more careful than other parents about your time. According to research, as a highly sensitive person (HSP), you are more easily overstimulated. So in addition to the time it takes to parent, you need more downtime. Without this downtime, you get irritable and just plain miserable—and there goes that attunement.