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Disciplining a Highly Sensitive Child
Highly sensitive children are often extremely sensitive to tone of voice and facial expressions. A stern look or shush from an authority figure can immediately crumple their faces to tears. I knew very...
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I’m Easily Grossed Out
One day, Sisi pointed out the only brown leaf on our liquid amber tree. Leave it to a Highly Sensitive Child to notice and care about a leaf that looks slightly different than the rest. I glanced at...
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HSPs need more sleep.
I need my sleep. Really I do. At least 7.5 hours per night, preferably 9 hours to function at my best. I had a friend in high school who just didn’t need much sleep to function well- she slept 6 hours...
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Too Much Empathy?
Is there such a thing as too much empathy? Sometimes I think I’m pathologically empathetic. I refuse to have pet fish in the house because it’s like pressing a little sadness button every time I walk...
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Why I Love Forest Kindergarten
Imagine a classroom without walls where it’s ok to get muddy or run barefoot. Where you can play with sticks and no one will yell the dreaded, “You’ll poke an eye out!” No whiteboards, just drawing...
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Party Anxiety
Why can’t I be good at parties? I ask myself this all the time. I sometimes leave parties thinking I failed somehow. Like I didn’t make a good enough impression, connect well with others or make good...
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Why Am I Homeschooling?
Hello again! It’s been many moons since I checked in on HSM. I’ve been busy gardening, propagating succulents, reading all I can about investing (such a 30-something thing to do, right?), and...
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Camping is Stressful and Awesome
I just returned from a camping trip to Joshua Tree National Forest. It was an awesome trip, but I had to apologize to my whole family for being such a complainypants. I was pretty stressed out and I...
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Operation Christmas Child Meltdown
My child had a meltdown in the checkout line at Target. Why? Because I was buying so many goodies for needy children, and none for her. I made sure to prepare her before our target run with a...
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My Toddler Scratches Other Babies
When Matteo scratches or pulls the hair of another child, it fills me with so much anxiety and shame. That sting of embarrassment as the other parent tends to their injured child and tries to hide...
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Teaching the ABCs to my Highly Sensitive Child
While reading their favorite ABC book, ABC T-Rex, I noticed that Sisi (my sensitive 6 yo) and Matteo (my less sensitive 2 yo) each responded to the book differently. Matteo noticed and repeated...
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Introversion, HSP, or Social Anxiety? The blurry line.
Introvert? Check. HSP? Check. Social Anxiety? Dunno. I refill my cup of energy with alone time (introversion.) I am highly sensitive to stimuli of all kinds (HSP.) But do I often fear being judged...
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Why Does Empathy Scare Us?
I grew up in a family where our “bad” emotions (jealousy, anger, rage) were not validated. My parents weren’t unkind people, but true empathy was not their forte. We were a highly emotional bunch of...
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