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

by Elaine N. Aron

If you need help, you just need it. That doesn’t make you a less capable or worse parent.

Also, sometimes a choice at first feels like a mistake but turns out to be okay later.

One of the highlights of Barrie Jaeger’s book on Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person is her writings about drudgery, craft, and calling. Drudgery is the work HSPs especially dread. For some people, as long as they are paid and can count on using their money for some fun or the family when the day is done, that is good enough, even if the hours go slowly due to repetitive work or not enough work to do. That’s drudgery. It has no meaning in itself, and it’s deadly to HSPs.