The Highly Sensitive Child

Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them

By: Elaine Aron

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's Summary

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.

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2015 Elaine N. Aron (P)2016 Tantor

Critic Reviews

"Aron offers helpful advice that will assist both nonsensitive and highly sensitive parents through all stages of their child's development from infancy to adolescence." ( Publishers Weekly)

Fix the chapters!

Love the book and the reading was great by the chapters in the app are incorrect and it’s nearly impossible to navigate throughout the book properly. Please fix it and label them correctly!!!

Life-changing!

This book saved our family!! This book saved our marriage!! This book saved my life!! Thank you, Dr. Aron. Thank you!

Finally! I know I’m not crazy and i can nurture my own HSC!

Although, at times I sense Elaine’s personal opinion too much, I loved the book. I was finally able to understand myself, my lack of nurturing I received as a child, but most importantly, I know what my son needs.

Very helpful

At 65 I am only now learning about Highly Sensitive Persons despite having a sensitive sister and others in the family with that temperament, but better late than never. I learned a lot.

So helpful with our little HSC!

so many helpful recommendations and insights. this book is really helping us to better support our HSC. We are going to use this like a textbook and keep referring back to remember all the helpful hints.

Very helpful!!

I noticed my child was very sensitive to certain things so I researched and came up with HSC. I am so happy I purchased this book this helped me so much to understand his mindset of what is going on that I can't understand... My child is responding well with the technique and I'm so happy this book exist!

She gets us!

While I don’t agree with 100% of the parenting techniques, this book really allowed me to understand myself and my identical twins who are highly sensitive!

HSP required reading!

No matter the age at which u discover u r HSP, this book will take u back to childhood and validate your experience. Required reading for all HSPs, parents and friends and teachers of HSPs. Thank goodness for Elaine Aron!

Highly Recommended!!

Read this if you are thinking of kids, have kids of any age. Great Insights!!!

I finally found some answers!

I have gone to parenting classes, read other books, and talked to so many other moms about their young children and how they handle things. Not until listening to this book, have I finally found reasons as to why my 5 year old acts certain ways and has so much trouble with things that other children in her age group don’t seem to have. Many of the traits talked about throughout the book, and the way I parent makes sense to me now. I am so grateful to have happened to stubble upon this book in Audible while looking for help.