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An emotionally sensitive child must be seen and heard. It is the feeling of being alone and abandoned the child makes a greater sensitivity often painful emotions such as sadness and fear. The world feels like a very scary and lonely place for a child who is not secure feel connected to people who love and care for them. These children empathic listening and communication needs which ensures that they are loved and that their feelings are valid.
It can be very difficult for a parent to see a child in an emotional state sensitive. It can often lead to feelings of frustration of parents and the impulse to communicate with the child "harden" or "Get It." A child is perceived humiliation, frustration and abandonment … exactly the emotions underlying sentiment makes it difficult for a child to tolerate. A sensitivity of the child must be encouraged, not discouraged to express their emotions. Often, the testimony of a child's feelings can seem overwhelming to a parent, but imagine how overwhelmed the child who feels the emotions they feel. Use your empathy as a caregiver tune into the experience of their child. More importantly, listen to their children. Leave a safe space to feel all the emotions and encourage them to express their feelings.
Create structured and regular times to talk about their feelings with their children, and do an activity common and normal – a time for you and your child to connect and talk about what can happen in their lives. Give name this time (the time to talk " or "timeshare"). Set aside a place in your home to meet and perhaps even create a special chair to sit for two together. Help your child look forward to this opportunity to communicate with you emotionally. On this occasion becomes a container "emotional" allow a sensitive child to feel "held" emotionally. Teach your children that you can manage your emotions, be a good model emotional. If you show a child who can manipulate the feelings, then a child learn that they can do the same. The recognition and discussion the child's feelings, emotions become normalilzed and not to fear. As fear of subsidies emotions, it will be the emotional sensitivity.
The ability of a child to tolerate and manage their painful emotions is based on a sense of secure attachment caregivers and a sense of assurance that it is okay to talk and express their feelings. A child who feels safe in emotional end of construction "emotional power" to manage the emotions themselves.
Problem: A child is emotionally sensitive who do not feel safe knowing that cared and understood. Children who appear "sensitive" as the experience of the world a isolated and fearful that do not tolerate their feelings.
Solution: provide empathetic listening to a child who feels emotionally sensitive help the child feel loved and understood. This operation "emotional" allows the child to increase their ability to tolerate unpleasant or painful emotions such as fear and sadness.
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Matt Casper, M.A. MFT; Matt is a licensed Psychotherapist with a private practice in Los Angeles, California. He graduated cum laude from Duke University where he studied personality psychology, comparative religion and film. He received his master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from the California Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology and Psychoanalysis and has worked with a diverse population including individual adults, teens and children as well as with groups and couples. Matt has been involved with the Maple Counseling Center, a non-profit counseling clinic, as well as with the Julia-Ann Singer Therapeutic School where he worked with children who fall somewhere on the Autism spectrum, and has served as a supervisor for teenagers at TEEN LINE, a hotline and website that provides teen-to-teen outreach for teenagers facing emotional challenges. Matt is also the author of a series of 12 books in the “Emotes!” series which aims to help children identify, express and manage their emotions.
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