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The Highly Sensitive Parent

How to Care for Your Kids When You Care Too Much

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The Highly Sensitive Parent

By: Elaine N. Aron
Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
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From the world-renowned authority and internationally bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person, comes an indispensable guide for the significant number of parents who are unusually attuned to their children.

The Highly Sensitive Parent is the only book of its kind, written specifically for parents who think deeply about every issue affecting their kids, experiencing strong emotions as a result, and face unique stressors that do not impact parents without high sensitivity.

Parenting is the most valuable and rewarding job in the world, and also one of the most challenging. This is especially true for highly sensitive people. The good news is that sensitivity can also be a parent’s most valuable asset, leading to increased personal joy and a closer, happier relationship with their child.

Dr Elaine Aron, world-renowned author of the classic The Highly Sensitive Person and other bestselling books on the trait of high sensitivity, has written an indispensable guide for these parents. Drawing on extensive research and her own experience, she helps highly sensitive parents identify and address the implications of their heightened sensitivity, offering:
• A self-examination test to help parents identify their level of sensitivity
• Tools to cope with over-stimulation
• Advice on dealing with the negative feelings that can surround parenting
• Ways to manage the increased social stimulation and interaction that comes with having a child
• Techniques to deal with shyness around other parents
• Insight into the five big problems that face highly sensitive parents in relationships – and how to work through them

Highly sensitive people have the potential to be not just good parents but great ones. Practical yet warm and positive, this groundbreaking guide will show parents how to build confidence, awareness, and essential coping skills so that they – and their child – can thrive on every stage of the parenting journey.

©2020 Elaine N. Aron (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Children's Studies Emotions Relationships School-Age Children
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Critic reviews

‘This book is filled with validating, healing and empowering information about how to navigate one of the most important roles of our lives while being highly sensitive. It changed my life in the most healing and empowering ways.’
Alanis Morissette

Praise for The Highly Sensitive Person

‘I wept through almost every page of this book out of sheer self-recognition. To say this book changed my life would be an understatement. I am forever grateful to Elaine Aron.’ Alanis Morissette

‘Elaine Aron’s perceptive analysis of this fundamental dimension of human nature is must reading. Her balanced presentation suggests new paths for making sensitivity a blessing, not a handicap.’ Philip G. Zimbardo

‘Enlightening and empowering, this book is a wonderful gift to us all.’ Riane Eisler

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A hugely helpful book

This book and The Highly Sensitive Person have helped me hugely and made for insightful and thought provoking reading. The book is full
of empathy and wisdom and has provided me with practical ideas of how to support myself and my family as an HSP. Highly recommended for all highly sensitive people who are, or are thinking of becoming, parents.

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Very helpful book to listen to as HSP parent/papa.

Very helpful book to listen to as HSP parent/papa.
thanks Elaine!...
Being a parent is one thing but HSP and a parent is something else.

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If you’re looking for permission to hire a maid and a babysitter - this is the book for you

Unfortunately I felt that this was a waste of credit. I feel that you can sum up this book (or at least the first half that I listened to) with - have a huge social network on hand for help and don’t be ashamed to hire help for everything else.

For a highly sensitive parent who isn’t bathing in money and a million friends and family that’s just begging to help - this book doesn’t help much.

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Was not useful at all

I wanted to like this book, but unfortunately it was very useless. I actually feel worse about myself and my future after listening to it. Waste of time, money, and energy. I think I expected practical tips and an empathetic writer. For me the author is way too condescending, and that really cancels out every useful or correct thing she says. Maybe some people enjoy this kind of attitude and being told what to do by someone who assumes they know better. Sadly I don't, so I cannot recommend this book.

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