Kids seeking for mother's attention

Myth Busting: Stop “Attention Seeking” Seeking Behavior In Sensitive Kids

Highly Sensitive Child| Highly Sensitive Kids| Emotions| School
October 16, 2024•1 min read

Imagine your child struggling to walk, falling down constantly at home, but miraculously having perfect coordination in public.

You wouldn't assume they were just stumbling for attention, right? 

You'd know they genuinely needed help building that physical skill.

Well, the same is true for emotional skills like regulation and distress tolerance.

Meltdown behaviors at home (hitting, kicking, screaming, refusal, shutting down) are a sign of lagging abilities, not a manipulative bid for attention.

Just because they can "hold it together" at school doesn't mean the struggle isn't real. 

It just means home is a space to let it all out…. (another post for a different day– it’s not because they feel “safe” either.

As parents, our job is to guide them from this emotional crawling stage to confident walking (and eventually running!) with a calm, regulated nervous system.

But here's the thing... You can't teach what you haven't mastered yourself.

If you're getting frustrated, escalating, or avoiding the meltdowns, you have your own skill gap to address first.

This isn't about IQ. A Ph.D. doesn't prepare you for patiently coaching a dysregulated child. 

It's a unique set of relational and emotional skills.

The good news? 

With the right roadmap, ANY parent can learn this. 

It's the best investment you can make for your child's lifelong wellbeing.

And we've created that step-by-step roadmap for you, based on our clinical experience with hundreds of families.

If you're ready to trade the guilt, exhaustion, and helplessness for confident, effective emotional leadership, let's talk.

Click here to learn more about what it takes to end the meltdown cycle and let's get you equipped to end those meltdowns for good. 

megghanthompsoncoaching.com/3mistakes

Your family's harmony is worth it.

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I help parents who are worried about managing their child’s explosive and out of control emotions to develop an individualized system to manage their kid’s explosive feelings when they don’t fit the examples in typical parenting books. I know you are a parent of a Highly Sensitive Child and are ready to stop scouring the internet for new strategies, throw out those traditional parenting books that don’t match your kid, and develop an individualized system to manage your kid’s explosive feelings.

Megghan Thompson, LCPC, RPT-S

I help parents who are worried about managing their child’s explosive and out of control emotions to develop an individualized system to manage their kid’s explosive feelings when they don’t fit the examples in typical parenting books. I know you are a parent of a Highly Sensitive Child and are ready to stop scouring the internet for new strategies, throw out those traditional parenting books that don’t match your kid, and develop an individualized system to manage your kid’s explosive feelings.

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