The love jar. I was thrilled that when I typed those words into Amazon, I actually found exactly the product and love jar that I was envisioning. I wanted to create a love jar for our daughter that was full of meaningful little notes about all of the reasons why we love her. This is …
The Highly Sensitive Child
4 months ago we were recommended a book called The Highly Sensitive Child. 4 months ago the light bulb came on for us. So many things made sense. Even looking back to when our daughter was a baby… it all made sense. Every little thing about her personality, all of her amazing qualities- everything finally …
Our daughter is a highly sensitive child. When you have a highly sensitive child, parenting strategies for the typical child just don’t work in the same way. We’ve had a hard time figuring out what to do for our daughter at times, when the typical parenting strategies fail us. We were feeling like we had …
Welcome to the moment I learned about the highly sensitive child. This term, this trait, changed my parenting forever. A few months ago, I mentioned to a friend that we were really struggling with our daughter’s behavior. Our toolbox of ideas had run out (read more here) and we were feeling defeated. Our daughter’s behavior …