The Highly Sensitive Parent

Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine Aron

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Parenting is the most valuable and rewarding job in the world, and also one of the most challenging. This is especially true for highly sensitive people. Highly sensitive parents are unusually attuned to their children. They think deeply about every issue affecting their kids and have strong emotions, both positive and negative, in response. For highly sensitive people, parenting offers unique stresses - but the good news is that sensitivity can also be a parent’s most valuable asset, leading to increased personal joy and a closer, happier relationship with their child.

Dr. Elaine Aron, world-renowned author of the classic The Highly Sensitive Person and other best-selling books on the trait of high sensitivity, has written an indispensable guide for these parents. Drawing on extensive research and her own experience, she helps highly sensitive parents identify and address the implications of their heightened sensitivity, offering:

• A self-examination test to help parents identify their level of sensitivity
• Tools to cope with overstimulation
• Advice on dealing with the negative feelings that can surround parenting
• Ways to manage the increased social stimulation and interaction that comes with having a child
• Techniques to deal with shyness around other parents
• Insight into the five big problems that face highly sensitive parents in relationships - and how to work through them

Highly sensitive people have the potential to be not just good parents, but great ones. Practical yet warm and positive, this groundbreaking guide will show parents how to build confidence, awareness, and essential coping skills so that they - and their child - can thrive on every stage of the parenting journey.

©2020 Elaine Aron (P)2020 Recorded Books

Dragged until the end

This book very much lagged at first but chapters 7-8 were full of valuable information that I felt relevant as a new parent who is “sensitive”. Even for those parents who are not HS, this was a parenting book I would give another shot now that I have given it a fair amount of time to read through. The “parental shame” segments made so much sense and it came to helpful info that helped my marriage and parenting my new infant.

Eye Opening

This was truly eye opening for me. I always knew I was more sensitive than others in regards to my emotions but I never quite understood why. Nor did I realize

Practical and helpful

Loved the stories and real life examples. Helped me understand my triggers as a parent

I didn't like the voice of the narrator

it has decent information, but this is not a book I would purchase. there were a couple chapters that were best, I think they were 3 and 4. the ones on emotions

even if you aren’t a highly sensitive mom you should read it

i really enjoyed being seen. highly sensitive moms have an ability to reflect deeply and navigate through parenting with clear emotional guidance system. which can be a great tool for ourselves, our families and the world. the other aspect of being a highly sensitive person can also leave you feeling overwhelmed and overstimulated. i appreciate how she took the time to touch base on what goes unseen. we’re seen

A Must Listen for HS moms and dads

I wish I have found this book before my divorce. Great read! I loved all her books

amazing insight into being a highly sensitive

this book is one of the first books to make me feel not alone as someone who sees and hears everything. I am not a helicopter mom but I do know when tones c
hange in my dog's bark to tell me my child is getting into trouble. she is highly sensitive as am I and my children being a minority of people with highly sensitive behaviors and sensory disorders it is amazing to have somebody identify with things that nobody could identify

Glad I read this before my kids were much older (6 and 4)

So many useful tips in this book. I feel seen. I feel less alone. I only recently heard about HSP and am thirsty for knowledge of how to manage this blessing. Even knowing there are other HSP parents out there makes this journey more manageable and fulfilling. Feeling grateful for the colossal effort it must have been to produce this book. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Simple concepts well conveyed

Dr. Aron’s expertise on this subject is unparalleled and the way she conveys her insights and recommendations is easily digestible, relatable and implementable.

Nothing to take away

This book oozes elitist bs and there is no decent advice that can't be found with a basic internet search.