Description
This book is about helping children who are highly sensitive. These children often have trouble coping with the world and can be shy, introverted, and fussy. The book provides parents with information so they can understand their child and help them thrive. It also contains a questionnaire to help parents determine if their child has the traits common in highly sensitive children.
15-20% of children are Highly Sensitive -- and they are often labelled shy, introverted, fussy or faddy. The real story is very different though and this intelligent, practical book helps parents know what to do, when to back off, and how to ensure their child is given the right sort of treatment at school. This book is the follow up to the author's internationally best-selling personal development guide The Highly Sensitive Person. It is the first and only book for parents of highly sensitive children. It provides parents with insights and information so they can understand High Sensitivity, and help their highly sensitive child thrive in the world. It is important for these children to be understood so they can be helped to avoid the common traps of shyness and withdrawal that many highly sensitive fall into as they develop. Contains questionnaire for parents to find out if their child has the traits common in highly sensitive children. Discusses HSC's at different ages -- infant, toddler, school-age and adolescent.!