This is such an important subject, allowing us to see our kiddos as Individuals. No one size fits all when it comes to parenting, as evidenced by the fact that my twins are wholly different people. One is definitely highly sensitive, or as Dr. Becky Kennedy says, a “deeply feeling child.”
I wonder ALL THE TIME about the rise in sensitivities in our children, from emotional sensitivity to food sensitivities. What’s the source? It has to be something in our hyper-novel environment. Have you seen the studies on contaminants in cord blood? We are over-stimulating their system literally from before they are born! And then there are the sound and light stimulation from an overly technologized world. I think we have to factor all this in when addressing emotional sensitivity as it will give us additional avenues for addressing these challenges.
Parents complete a survey assessing their kid’s behavior (parent’s opinion), record them brushing their teeth, and complete another survey several years later. What can we learn from study…absolutely nothing! The amount of uncontrolled confounding variables makes it impossible to learn anything from this study. Diet, exercise, sleep, parenting, a million things at school, etc. These studies get more ridiculous every year.
This is such an important subject, allowing us to see our kiddos as Individuals. No one size fits all when it comes to parenting, as evidenced by the fact that my twins are wholly different people. One is definitely highly sensitive, or as Dr. Becky Kennedy says, a “deeply feeling child.”
I wonder ALL THE TIME about the rise in sensitivities in our children, from emotional sensitivity to food sensitivities. What’s the source? It has to be something in our hyper-novel environment. Have you seen the studies on contaminants in cord blood? We are over-stimulating their system literally from before they are born! And then there are the sound and light stimulation from an overly technologized world. I think we have to factor all this in when addressing emotional sensitivity as it will give us additional avenues for addressing these challenges.
Parents complete a survey assessing their kid’s behavior (parent’s opinion), record them brushing their teeth, and complete another survey several years later. What can we learn from study…absolutely nothing! The amount of uncontrolled confounding variables makes it impossible to learn anything from this study. Diet, exercise, sleep, parenting, a million things at school, etc. These studies get more ridiculous every year.
Thank you for this piece! Will share this on tomorrow's issue of The Momsletter. 🌼🌷