What are the gifts of highly sensitive children?

What are the gifts of highly sensitive children? I want to help my children develop them.

 
Answer: Raising a highly sensitive child is both a joy and a challenge. These children are compassionate, intuitive, and creative. They feel emotions more intensely and often have a natural connection to people, animals, and nature. They love helping others and taking good care of the Earth.

Growing up, I too was a highly sensitive and intuitive child. I know the importance of receiving the right kind of support so that your child feels supported and understands that their sensitivities make them unique, not less than. If they don’t receive this type of nurturing, they can feel shamed and invisible.

This is why I’m excited about my children’s book, The Highly Sensitive Rabbit. The picture book is a story of a caring cottontail named Aurora who learns to embrace her gifts of empathy and sensitivity and discovers self-care techniques, such as setting healthy boundaries.

When you honor your child’s sensitivity, you give them the greatest gift: the freedom to see their differences as strengths. With your guidance, their empathy, intuition, and creativity can blossom—not despite their sensitivity, but because of it.

To learn how to nurture your sensitive child, read my blog 5 Ways to Nurture Empath Children.