Sports and Activities for a Highly Sensitive Child
What are the best sports or activities for a highly sensitive child (HSC)? This is one of the most common questions that I get asked by parents raising HSCs. It is also one of the hardest questions to answer because there is not one right answer. Each highly...
How to Help a Child with Selective Mutism
You know the situation well. Your chatty child that never stops talking at home suddenly becomes expressionless and frozen with fear when entering a specific environment or when being addressed by a stranger or certain person in their life. Parenting a child...
10 Intentions to Set as a Parent of a Highly Sensitive Child
Setting intentions I have been hearing a lot about setting intentions lately instead of resolutions and I absolutely love this idea! Resolutions put our focus more on specific goals and outcomes, leaving us feeling guilty or bad about ourselves when we don’t...
Ten Great Children’s Books for the Highly Sensitive Child
Books can have a profound effect on children, especially when it relates to identifying their emotions, working through fears & helping with difficult situations in their lives. I am a big proponent of bibliotherapy and have seen first-hand the positive impact...
Tantrum or Sensory Meltdown?
What is the difference between a tantrum and a sensory meltdown? How can you differentiate between the two when a child’s reaction often looks the same in either instance? In this article, I will be defining the two terms and describing the causes of each, so that...
Gift Guide for the Highly Sensitive Child
Trying to decide what to get a highly sensitive child for the holidays? This gift guide gives you 24 gifts that are fun, but also functional. After getting feedback from my readers and FB group, I compiled an extensive guide with gift ideas for the highly sensitive...
How to Help your Sensitive Child Handle Big Emotions
If you are parenting a highly sensitive child, you probably aren’t a stranger to intense emotions being hurled your way daily. Depending on your child’s age, maturity level, temperament, and ability to communicate their feelings, you may be dealing with...
8 Myths about Selective Mutism
My son was diagnosed with Selective Mutism (SM), in 2013, at the age of 3. We worked very hard on a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatment plan with a doctor who specialized in SM. He is now fully verbal in all areas and we no longer think of him as having...
Highly Sensitive or Sensory Processing Disorder?
Highly sensitive children often struggle with sensory stimulation in their environment. It is common for them to have difficulties with things such as loud noises, bright lights, crowds and the feeling of certain clothes. These same challenges can be seen in...
When Halloween is Hard – Challenges for the Sensitive Child
What’s so hard about Halloween? Free candy, dressing up, parties, parades – what’s so hard about that? While this sounds amazing to a lot of people, it is important to understand that not all children enjoy the added excitement, costumes, and change...
10 Fall Outdoor Activities to Connect your Sensitive Child with Nature
All children need to connect with nature, but children who are easily overwhelmed by the busy and loud day-to-day environment can really be grounded by the quiet beauty of the outdoors. The peacefulness of nature can help calm and restore the highly sensitive child...
How to Handle After School Meltdowns with your Child
Experiencing After School Meltdowns? It’s the end of the school day and you are ready to greet the sweet, happy child you dropped off at school or the bus stop this morning. You are excited when you spot your child. You can’t wait to give them a hug and hear...
Discipline Strategies for the Sensitive Child
Are you trying to figure out how to discipline a sensitive child? Confused with how to help them understand limits and consequences when you are dealing with their intense emotions? If the advice in conventional parenting books and from well-meaning friends and...
10 Amazing Back to School Items for the Highly Sensitive Child
Are you getting ready to shop for those required back to school supplies? Here are 10 amazing back to school items for the highly sensitive child that you may want to add to your list. Everything I recommend on this list are products my HSCs personally own, use, or...
How to Help your Sensitive Child with the Back to School Transition
Leaving behind the carefree days of summer and heading back to the busy school schedule can be a very challenging transition for the sensitive child. Highly sensitive kids (HSCs) need time to adjust to change and a new routine. As a parent, it is important to begin...
Why your Highly Sensitive Child Struggles with the Pool
This post may contain referral links. See my disclosure page for more information. The Struggle is Real! As a stay-at-home mom, I am always looking for new, fun things to do with my boys, especially in the summer. A few years ago I decided to sign our family up for a...
4th of July Challenges for the Highly Sensitive Child and Strategies to Help
The parades, picnics, family gatherings and fireworks are what make the Fourth of July a favorite holiday for many. While the events that surround this holiday are often highly anticipated for families, a lot of the festivities that go along with the day can be very...From Silent Struggles to Sharing Strategies- My Story
I always knew I wanted to be a mom. When I first got married, I imagined that I would easily get pregnant and have two girls. Our days would be filled of with fun activities, children who obeyed my every word and I would never yell. Ha! How blissfully naive I was!...
Why your Highly Sensitive Child Struggles During the Last Weeks of School
It happens every year. Right around the beginning of May, I begin to see the emotional outbursts from my highly sensitive boys increase dramatically. The meltdowns in the morning and after school are at an all-time high. Do you experience this with your child too?...About Me
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