10 Habits of Highly Sensitive Children

Health and Healing Dealing with Trauma and Addictions · Apr 19, 2024 · 16m

Highly sensitive children have special gifts, as well as unique challenges. Children do not “become” highly sensitive, and there is not much we can do to help our children be less sensitive (other than tactics that would flatten their authenticity and create shame).

They experience emotional extremes; they have bigger reactions to sensory input, they are more prone to meltdowns, they are keenly tuned in to everyone and everything, they have a more intense need for control and can be rigid and inflexible, they are more fearful and cautious in new situations, they tend to have a lower tolerance…