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...
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?...
A Letter to the Mom of a Highly Sensitive Child
Dear Mom of a Highly Sensitive Child, I want you to know that I see you and that you are not alone. While your child is sitting on the sidelines or melting down after school, I know how you feel. When no one seems to understand what you go through on a daily basis,...
6 Strategies for Dressing a Sensory Sensitive Child
Can you relate? I let out a deep breath as I stand looking into my four year old son’s closet. The weather is just beginning to get warm after a long, cold winter. Today is the first day that calls for shorts and short sleeves. I pick out a cute pair of plaid shorts...
A Gift Guide for the Highly Sensitive Mom
This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure page for more information. Parenting is a demanding job for any person, but it can be especially difficult for someone who is highly sensitive. A highly sensitive person (HSP) is very in tune with the...
Why Spending Time Outdoors in Nature is Essential for Highly Sensitive Children
Spending time outdoors has so many benefits for our mind, body and soul. Highly sensitive children don’t just enjoy spending time in nature, they need it! Getting outside and exploring their environment is, no pun intended, a breath of fresh air for HSCs!...
How to End Bedtime Battles with Your Sensitive Child
We love our kids, but if we are being honest, I think most of us would admit that we look forward to their bedtime after parenting all day! Unfortunately, our children don’t always feel the same way. If you are frustrated with the struggles that come with getting your...
When family members don’t understand or accept the highly sensitive person
So you have discovered the term “highly sensitive” and it has been a game changer. You are finally able to understand the emotions and behavior that has been puzzling you for so long. You are excited to start moving in the right direction, but there is...
Celebrating Sensitivity: 10 Benefits of Being Highly Sensitive!
What’s so great about being sensitive? Let’s be honest, sensitivity rarely gets the praise it deserves. The label “sensitive” is often used in a negative way in our society. Have you or your child ever been told that you are “too sensitive?” High Sensitivity is a...
A Beginner’s Guide to High Sensitivity in Children
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or health professional and know others may have different opinions than my own. This beginner’s guide to high sensitivity in children was gathered from my own experiences. As a highly sensitive person, raising highly sensitive...
Gift Ideas for Highly Sensitive Children
This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure page for more information. When it comes to gifts for a highly sensitive child (HSC), some are better than others. I always try to find gifts that are fun, but also functional and calming. HSCs need to have quiet...
The Power of Play Dates for Anxious and Sensitive Kids
*This post may contain affiliate links. The Power of Play Dates Between having two highly sensitive children, one of which also has Selective Mutism, I have learned about the power of play dates for anxious and sensitive kids. One-on-one play dates are an AMAZING way...
The Ultimate Guide to Friendships and the Highly Sensitive Child
Does your child tend to hang with you on the playground/public place, instead of playing with other children? Do they have a hard time mixing with a group of their peers? Is home their favorite place to be? Have you ever yelled, “Just go play/hang out...About Me
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