Highly Sensitive People HSP Community Group
The highly sensitive person (or HSP) is someone who cares deeply about everything ... feels emotions with great intensity ... is highly conscientious ... has a rich and complex inner life ... is very intuitive ... is often creative in a variety of ways... is easily overwhelmed and/or overstimulated. A HSP needs lots of quiet time,space, and freedom. If this sounds...
I'm wondering how other parents cope with the hurts and ups and downs of parenthood. I have a really hard time when I see my kids hurting. I take their pain on as my own.
Sometimes I try to warn them beforehand if I see a situation that is likely to end badly, but lots of times they don't listen and then it ends the way I predicted it would...and then they come crying to me. I feel overwhelmed because I could have prevented their pain but they didn't listen to my advice.
How do you deal with parenting?
Sometimes I try to warn them beforehand if I see a situation that is likely to end badly, but lots of times they don't listen and then it ends the way I predicted it would...and then they come crying to me. I feel overwhelmed because I could have prevented their pain but they didn't listen to my advice.
How do you deal with parenting?
It doesn't mean I worry any less; I just keep a lot of my thoughts to myself.