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Highly Sensitive Children, Highly Sensitive Parents? - with Author Melissa Schwartz

The Intense Mind with Imi Lo

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Highly Sensitive Kids and Parenting

Some parents suspect that their kids are highly sensitive and they don't really know what to do with it. Elaine Aron, who sort of coined the work in the in the late 80s and 90s, uses this model of D O E S which stands for depth of processing over stimulation, emotional sensitivity and sensing subtleties. In a child, it's going to look like them becoming overstimulated after playing on the playground or being in a music class,. Or coming home from school and having maybe a bit of a breakdown. And so perhaps we can talk about both. Yeah. It's kind of a challenging one to answer because I always say no two highly sensitive people look like

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