With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of high sensitivity and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Now, Aron shifts her focus to highly sensitive children.

Rooted in Aron's years of experience as a psychotherapist and her original research on child temperament, The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling they can become unusually shy or timid or begin acting out.

In this pioneering work, parents will find helpful self-tests and case studies to help them understand their HSC along with thorough advice on parenting a highly sensitive child. With chapters addressing the needs of specific age groups, from newborns through teens, The Highly Sensitive Child delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the sensitive children in their lives.

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Listening Length	12 hours and 58 minutes
Author	Elaine Aron
Narrator	Susan Boyce
Audible.com Release Date	February 09, 2016
Publisher	Tantor Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01B8L68C8
Best Sellers Rank	#4,322 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #12 in Children's Health (Audible Books & Originals) #16 in Child Psychology (Audible Books & Originals) #36 in Medical Child Psychology

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Jeannie

Dr. Aron sheds light on the truth between sensitivity and shyness

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2016

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As an HSP myself, reading "The Highly Sensitive Child" offered invigorating insight into the mind and heart of my oldest daughter, who is also highly sensitive. For many years, she and I have butted heads over nearly everything, and after reading this book, I was both humbled and empowered to reach her in a new way.

Dr. Elaine Aron's practical tips in each chapter, particularly breaking down the developmental age groups, were refreshing, clear, and easy to implement. My husband and I have been discussing, at length, how we can foster our daughter's gifts in a more meaningful way and reframe her sensitivity as neutral, rather than the perceived "bad" that the world defines it as.

My favorite aspect of the book included recognizing how highly sensitive children require lots of rest, breaks, and sleep; that they thrive within a routine and usually need help transitioning with life changes; how to help them cope with verbal or social aggression at school; and ways to facilitate conversation with older children or role play with younger ones. Our daughter was bullied in preschool, and my husband and I approached her teacher, to no avail. Had I read this book beforehand, I would have been able to offer concrete solutions on how to understand and help HSCs with the "teacher tips" at the end of the book.

Having read "The Highly Sensitive Person" before "The Highly Sensitive Child," I would "highly" recommend both books, especially if a parent suspects that his/her child may be highly sensitive, as well. Both together offer a full picture into understanding oneself and children who may have been labeled "shy" (which is situational), but who are actually just sensitive.

A great read for parents and teachers alike.

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Ann Figs

It tells you what a sensitive child is and how to handle them but it doesn't address the core of the problem

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2018

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Deals with the superficial. It tells you what a sensitive child is and how to handle them but it doesn't address the core of the problem. Isolate the child when they are overly stimulated and accommodate to their personality. It is not a new concept in psychology! I don't like the author's ideology.

I realize that the study of the neurology is a fairly new concept but there are other neurologist/psychiatrist/ psychologist in other countries trying to address the "sensitive child" differences. I would suggest looking also into other specialist globally. I might go into a slight tangent so if you want stop reading, stop here.
Please do read this book but don't stop here. Look into communication difficulties not just to the fact that the child stops communicating when they are over stimulated. Why are they stimulated? Do they have an auditory disability? Do they have nonverbal communication problems? Is it a sensory integration problem? Do they have a slow brain processing speed? Is it a learning disability? ADHD? Dyspraxia?Do they have more than one of these problems?So again don't stop here. As my own personal advocate and an advocate for my own child I felt inclined to share hopefully this helps.

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Wow, just wow

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2018

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I bought this book to help my granddaughter, who is the spitting image of me. As I read, I was struck that not only is my granddaughter a highly sensitive child, she looks exactly like her grandmother who is finding out she is also the same. It explains so much to me and now I can see things clearer and I know why my granddaughter and I are so close. We understand each other. I also see my job as educating her very busy parents, who find some of her behavior bizarre and interpret her as being 'difficult' or 'pretending'. It is our task to help raise her to not only cope with a wildly stimulating and often crude world, but to flourish at the same time. A worthy read.

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Rebecca Tipton

Amazing book. Life-changing for me.

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2020

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I found this book, along the the author’s book The Highly Sensitive Person, to be life-changing. By far the most important self-help books I’ve ever come across. These books explain why my children and I (and others in my life) struggle with certain things, enjoy certain things, and require certain things. Once I understood these concepts, embraced what that meant in my life and the lives of my kids, and began to apply the author’s suggestions, I felt like a new person - not flawed or inadequate, but whole, unique, and free to be exactly the person I was meant to be. Like a friend said, I now understand myself much better and realize why I am the way I am, without looking for excuses.

I found this series of books at a time when my toddler son was struggling at school and seemed overwhelmed by life. (Through tears) I did an Internet search for “can a child be too sensitive” and found these books. Wow.

I regularly pick up these books when I’m having a tough day, open to a random page, and am reminded of what being a highly sensitive person means. I share copies with anyone in my life - friends, other parents, medical and educational professionals - who I think can benefit from them. I recommend this book to anyone with a child who seems to have a more sensitive disposition than other kids. I really cannot say enough good things about it.

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From birth, my son has been very sensitive and ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2017

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From birth, my son has been very sensitive and though I had no issue with this, I was constantly receiving unwanted advice/comments about his temperament from family members. This book has offered me insight on how to handle the critics!

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Katherine K

A little more thorough would have been just perfect

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018

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There are many helpful concepts in this book. I now understand my daughter better and am hopefully a better parent for it. My only complaint is that I wish there were a more comprehensive section on school stress.

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Madeline D

All that to say this book gives a lot of good insight and suggestions on how to help your child ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2017

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If you are maybe questioning if you have a HSP child then buy this book. If you know you have an HSP child then definitely buy this book! It's hard. It's hard to understand where your child is coming from sometimes, hard to know what to do and I tend to be hard on myself. All that to say this book gives a lot of good insight and suggestions on how to help your child in ways they will respond to.

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Mrs Duff

We now know much better what our little one is going through and what ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2018

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This is the most helpful book I've bought in my life (I am a bookworm!). The relationships between my child, my partner and myself have been completely transformed since my partner and I read this book. We are really grateful to the author for writing such a thorough, accessible and practical book on this topic. We now know much better what our little one is going through and what we can do to help him. I have a 6 year old little boy who is extremely sensitive, felt like he's much older. My partner and I are both highly sensitive but in very different ways. We reached a point that there were shouting, screaming, excessive worries and angers and tears in our house everyday and my boy was struggling to fit in at school. Since I read this book, my relationship with my little boy has been really smooth and sweet. My boy now calls me his best friend and he asked me whether Daddy could also read the book so to understand him better. He did and since then their relationship has also improved drastically.

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M E.

This book is amazing. I first read it when my daughter was ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2017

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This book is amazing. I first read it when my daughter was two years old and I keep going back to it for sections now about older sensitive children. It has offered some fantastic insights into why she may behave in certain ways in certain situations. When I first read the book it was like a breath of fresh air to read about other families with children who behaved the same way and it was amazingly supportive and helpful. If you are finding lots of frustrating situations it can be really helpful to understand what may be going on in your child's mind (and I must admit it has helped me learn a bit about myself too!).

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JoM84

Brilliant book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2019

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Such an insightful and helpful book. I am myself highly sensitive amd had a feeling my 2 year old was too from her reactions to certain situations. This book is very reassuring and helpful, giving plenty of information as to what they are going through and how to support them. I worry I hold her back sometimes as I am uncomfortable myself so this book is helping me to know when I should be giving her a nudge and when I'm right to hold back and support her. Definitely worth a read if you suspect your child is sensitive.

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Definitely worth buying!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2019

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This book is so reassuring...when my child's nursery made out there was something more serious wrong with my daughter, I became very concerned. Thank god this book exists, as it has fully explained to me all the ways in which my daughter can be sensitive & why she is unsettled at her current over-crowded nursery.

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Nellie Dimirtova

A great and helpful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2017

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Another amazing book by Ms. Aron. I recommend it to all parents who think that their child might be sensitive - please, read this book to avoid all the mistakes my parents made when raising me and save yourselves and your child a lot of sleepless nights and arguments.

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