Flexibility

PDA or Sensitive Struggling with Flexibility?

HSC| Highly Sensitive Kids| Parenting
January 31, 2024•1 min read

Your child's meltdowns drain your energy and test your patience.

 You want more for them, yet feel stuck in a struggle that repeats daily… even when you’re using gentle parenting techniques. 

 There is hope for a different future where your child thrives.

 But first you must see them through new eyes of possibility instead of impossibility.

 That includes the labels and perspectives that you take to characterize your chid’s behavior.

 We’re discussing pathological demand avoidance on the show this week. 

 It might be a difficult topic to dive into, but it’s a necessary one.

 Your perspective shapes your child’s world in ways you may not realize.

 What if meltdowns stem not from stubbornness or ‘demand avoidance’ but from a sensitive nature that is overwhelmed?

 Flexibility and nuance, not defiance, get lost in high-stakes situations.

 Disorganization and shutdowns are coping, not character flaws, for deeply thoughtful souls.

 Focusing on skills, not deficits, opens doors for resilience your child needs to reach their potential.

 We help parents shift perspective to empower kids instead of label them "difficult".

 Safe strategies replace power struggles with understanding for meltdown cycles to end.

 Thriving replaces merely surviving through advocacy that lifts children above limitations of the past.

 Isn't it time you and your child broke free together to experience life unburdened?

 Book a call to discuss how we partner with parents to cultivate the confidence sensitive kids carry within.

 Hope and possibility await when you see with new eyes of advocacy instead of judgment.

 Talk soon,

💚 Megghan

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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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