"Is Your Daughter Sensitive?"

I am an HSP (highly sensitive person) and so is my oldest daughter. Placing a judgement on a person's neurological bent is a missed opportunity to learn (I'll restrain myself about what else I'd like to say!). There are some down sides to being this way, the only one I can think of right now is having to deal with the 'eye rollers'.

People do not fit in boxes and neither do our sensitivities. I have abilities with people's energies as a result of being an HSP and work in the field of reflexology and energy work. We are all unique, we are all different. The more people learn and grow (and educate themselves), the more we will learn to be compassionate about people's differences through whatever spectrum we may be viewing the world.

I have learned to say 'thank you' when people tell me I'm 'too sensitive'. I notice more about people, the environment and energies surrounding us than most folk do and it comes in very useful. Shift your filters, force the sort and awaken to new possibilities in the life experience. There is much more to life than fitting in boxes and following rules.

Being sensitive is not a bad thing! Many people - adults included - are very sensitive. It's one of the great things about being human. And I would rather have my kids be overly sensitive than overly insensitive.At age 5, crying is still a pretty reasonable reaction to processing her emotions. If the crying is bothering *her* you can work with her to find other ways to deal with her feelings. If it's overly disruptive to the other kids, the teacher needs to find a way to deal with that. If it's only bothering the teacher, then... well, not to sound insensitive, but that's too bad (<-- tongue in cheek, but really part of teaching kindergarten is dealing with 5 year olds).

um the girl is 5 years old...why is it a big deal if she is crying? she's young and is expressing her emotions in the most purest way that she can. If she feels sad or hurt from something that happened on the playground or whatever and she cried because of it, it's a normal reaction. I was deemed a particularly sensitive child and am still a very sensitive person but now I don't cry as much (or at least try not to when Im outside in public...even though the tears do well up).