The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them Author: Elaine Aron | Language: English | ISBN:
0767908724 | Format: PDF
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them Description
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As a highly sensitive person (HSP) herself and a psychotherapist, Aron is in a strong position to provide guidance to parents who are raising highly sensitive children (HSCs), and provides here a wealth of useful suggestions and case studies. The author, who has studied and written about what she calls "high sensitivity" (The Highly Sensitive Person), states that this is a personality trait that occurs in 15% to 20% of the population. Although HSCs tend to be "empathetic, smart, intuitive, careful and conscientious," they are also easily overstimulated and require informed parenting in order to prevent temper tantrums, stress illnesses and the avoidance of pleasurable group activities. Aron offers helpful advice that will assist both nonsensitive and highly sensitive parents through all stages of their child's development from infancy to adolescence. For example, since HSCs have great difficulty with change, it is necessary to prepare them gently so that they do not feel powerless during transitions. According to the author, there are four basic strategies that will help an HSC to become a happy adult: parents should foster their child's self-esteem, try to reduce the feelings of shame HSCs may develop because they are different, employ only mild positive discipline and learn how to talk positively to teachers and friends about their HSC so that interactions will be productive.
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"To have an exceptional child you must be willing to have an exceptional child. You have one. And this book will teach you how to raise him to be not only exeptional, but healthy, loving, well-adjusted, and happy." Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. Praise for The Highly Sensitive Person: 'This remarkable book speaks clearly to highly sensitive people. It gives a fresh perspective, a sigh of relief, and a good sense of where we belong in society.' JOHN GRAY, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
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- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition (October 8, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0767908724
- ISBN-13: 978-0767908726
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
My 3-year-old is highly sensitive and at the same time quite extroverted and expressive - a very explosive mix, I can tell you...my husband and I were at our wit's end a lot of times, our son had frequent tantrums about small things (at least, they seemed small to us), people either didn't believe us when we told them how our son acts or told us we were spoiling him and that's why he still doesn't want to mix pasta with tomato sauce or starts crying when we put his hot dog on the same plate as the potatoes...he refuses to walk barefoot anywhere, makes a fuss about wet or sandy clothes...all these things that are described in the book! Reading the book felt like reading a book about my own son. Ok, not all of it applies to him but that's probably mostly because he belongs to the extroverted minority of the highly sensitive people.
This books offers great practical advice for all age groups and covers all kinds of topics (food, sleep, leaving your child with someone else, how to build up self-esteem...)I have already applied some of the advice in our daily routine with a lot fo success. However, I also found out that we have already done a lot of things right intuitively. So not all of it is new information to me but it helps to have my approach confirmed by an expert because people (including well-meaning relatives) keep telling us that we spoil our child and should push him harder. As parents with a highly sensitive child we often feel isolated from other parents (who e.g. can take their children to an indoor swimming pool for the first time and their children actually don't go crazy because of all the new input) and it is simply nice to find out that all this is really not so unusual, that there are lots of other kids around who are like our son.
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