The Little Light Project nonprofit shut down officially in 2015, but we keep the website up in order to share important information on how to help highly intuitive children.
Resources for Parents of Highly Sensitive/Intuitive Kids
Books
If you are just starting to look into whether or not your child is highly sensitive, check out the books below that helped many of us here at LLP. We hope to have our first workshops up and running early 2014 and will be able to do that with the support of folks like you who believe in helping our highly sensitive kids grow and thrive.
If you are just starting to look into whether or not your child is highly sensitive, check out the books below that helped many of us here at LLP. We hope to have our first workshops up and running early 2014 and will be able to do that with the support of folks like you who believe in helping our highly sensitive kids grow and thrive.
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...
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Silver medalists, 2010 Independent Book Publishers Association Ben Franklin Awards “A gentle and insightful approach to parenting children with highly intuitive abilities or sensitivities. There are pearls of wisdom here. Recommended.” – Library Journal
Is Your Child Trying to Tell You Something? We are all sensitive, intuitive and empathic to one degree or another. But some of us are born more so. The highly intuitive child may pick up on unspoken issues in the home and take on the emotions of friends, absorb the mood in a classroom or in the world at large and even anticipate dangerous situations. The acutely receptive intuition of these children is always “on,” acting as a sixth sense. Because this emotional and sensory input is added to what they take in through the other five senses it can be difficult to cope with, and their sensitivity can result in difficulty turning “off” and falling asleep deep fears and anxieties that are hard to relieve an exaggerated sense of responsibility about healing people or fixing situations psychosomatic pains, “spaciness” and difficulty making decisions “acting out” stress they take in as anger or “acting in” the sadness or pain of others as depression. If you recognize these traits in a child, you can help. Hearing and Helping the Sensitive Child In this practical guide, therapist and mother Catherine Crawford provides the tools and insight you need to recognize and honor the gifts of the intuitive child in your life while minimizing the challenges that come with them. These include: 20 questions for identifying highly intuitive children, 10 teachable skills that reduce or prevent sensory overload techniques for reducing stress through diet, exercise, art, play and visualization guidance on how and when to seek professional help You will also find inspiring stories of the intuitive child’s journey into adulthood and insights into how cultures around the world embrace the gifts of empathy and intuition. Most importantly, The Highly Intuitive Child gives you what you need right now – ways to understand, nurture and celebrate the richness and complexity of your unique child. http://www.amazon.com/The-Highly-Intuitive-Child-Understanding/dp/0897935098 |