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Highly sensitive child

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Helpful book. Helps to identify sensitive children and ways to make their life and your life more plesant.

Good, with a grain of salt

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As a mother of a sensitive child it was nice to see a book out there that does not condemn this or tells you push, push, push. A lot of what she said made sense I just felt like she was really into her subject matter and perhaps was a little too wordy. The overall theme of listen, understand and validate was a good one.

Very helpful and encouraging but could use more details

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We are the parents of a wonderful kid who is troubled by over-sensitivity to certain kinds of stimulus, including textures, noise and smells. While it does not offer as much in the way of solutions as we'd like, it is very helpful in understanding our daughter's seemingly inappropriate reactions to ordinary stimulus without branding her as deliberately disruptive or "bad". It's helped us question some of the labels that therapists are quick to place on kids these days (bipolar, ADD, oppositional, etc...)and come up with a better understanding of what's causing her problems, and in the process, helped avoid innappropriate medications.

We'd really like it if the authors provided more in the way of coping strategies and theraputic options but even understanding what's going on is very helpful. We may buy the author's other book, The Highly Sensitive Person" to see if they have provided more prescriptive advice there.

Excellent, kind-hearted insight into your wonderful child!

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Wow. I am so happy to have found this book. It has finally connected the dots for me. My son has, since birth, been a highly sensitive person, bothered by noises, lights, changes in routine, etc. But for some reason, I had never put them together as part of one temperament. Now I see that his terror at the sound of fireworks, his shielding his eyes from bright sunlight, his extreme discomfort at tags on his clothes or if his shoes are not on just right, his disliking of hats or anything coming near his head, his terror at the doctor or the hairdresser, reluctance to potty train (because it's a change in the routine!)...they're all related! And this book affirms for me that the way I have been handling these things gently and with understanding, is far better for his temperament than punishing or even time-outs. This books has been a revelation to me, and I am a MUCH better, more sympathetic parent for having read it.

Insight

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This book really offered me insight into the life of a highly sensitive child. My son has been this way since birth, but I didn't realize it until his pre-k teacher pulled me aside and told me she thought he was a very sensitive child. She meant it in a nice way, but a concerned way too because he was having problems adjusting to and interacting with the other children in the classroom. I always thought he was "just being difficult", but now I have a better perspective on why he reacts to certain siutations the way he does. Reading this book allowed me to have patience with my son and to help nuture him in a way that i've never been able to do before. I would recommended it to a parent who is struggling to understand your child's sensitivity issues or the parent who is extremely frustrated by a situation they can't seem to fix in regards to their sensitive child.