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Hi, I'm Dr. Eliza and today's episode of Raising Good Humans is about

highly sensitive children and the unique way that we can

respond as parents to build closer relationships to understand this particular

way of being in the world and it's also really

helpful for parents of highly sensitive children to understand especially if they are not highly sensitive parents.

So I am talking with Dr. Anne Louise Lockhart,

who's a clinical psychologist,

and she also has a practice called a new day pediatric

psychology and she has an awesome Instagram with lots of great resources and information for parents. So a really quick word

about temperament because a lot of people have asked me to expand on what I mean when I'm talking about temperament and how kind of kids walk through the world.

And we're going to spend a lot of time talking about temperament on other episodes, but today I really want to focus on this particular way of being which is known as highly sensitive, but think of probably around in this research is very dynamic, let's say, so right now it's around 15 to 20 percent of children or people are thought to be

highly sensitive in that their nervous systems are more aware, reactive, those kids tend to feel those feelings bigger.

You know when you have a highly sensitive child, and if you don't know that you have a highly sensitive child and if you don't know that you have a highly sensitive child

You may listen to this and realize that that's something that's going on and

Highly sensitive people tend to pick up on the subtle changes, the subtle experiences,

the subtle moments in other people and in themselves.

So Dr. Ann Louise Lockhart is going to be talking to us about parenting highly sensitive

children and actually I'll put in the show notes her course that

she's doing online specifically about this topic to just expand more than what

we're talking about today and we'll keep this conversation going.

I hope you enjoy it.

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