PARENTING EMPATHIC CHILDREN!

In the course of over 25 years I started to witness a change in children as a teacher in my classrooms. I observed more emotional and physical sensitivities in their response to their environment. It started as socks being uncomfortable and coats becoming intolerable to these young souls. Seeing as I taught in areas where coats, socks, and shoes were necessary in winter, my journey as a compassionate curious adult and investigator began.

When I went on to continue my education after teaching for 12 years, my goal was to research and study how I could support parents and families in a way I saw the schools were not able to. There were questions that had no answers. There were children attempting to express themselves in braver and louder approaches than what was acceptable in a typical structured classroom setting, even the preschools where I taught. Kids, to me, seemed smarter and more advanced. They could think beyond what most childhood educators had thought, learned, or experienced in former decades. 

I can’t put my finger on it exactly other than the children appeared to experience life and feelings more deeply. They weren’t as easily satisfied with quick and dismissive answers. They wanted more. They asked for more. 

There was also an increase in sensitivites to food, tags in clothing, and a desire to choose to say no if they didn’t want something. Teachers I worked with saw this as a parenting problem and children becoming disrespectful. I saw it as children were becoming more aware of what they wanted and didn’t want and were attempting to speak up for themselves. There was this new tone set, a new energy I felt children were being born with, that provided them with this innate need and freedom to express what their soul asked of them, asked of us as the adults in their lives.

Since the education system has not changed much in many decades, children who are extremely expressive and won’t fall easily into the prescribed nature of school and expectations of young ones are presented with traits, titles, and stories that often turn them away from their true selves. If a child does not adhere to the normal perameters they, are thought of as rebelllious and unpredictable. Or a concern in the eyes of a traditional setting. 

Self expression is often limited. Unique styles and personalities are questionsed and sometimes stifled so they fit in better.

This is where I come in and would like to advocate for their individuality. 

There are people, adults and children, who have different needs and considerations based on their exceptional abilities to feel and sense energies and
emotions of others. It is called being an Empath. It is like walking into a room and getting the overall mood of the environment and then taken to the next level of feeling it in our bodies. Imagine being a young child and carrying the emotions that belong to another person (or animal). It can create much havoc on their young, small nervous system. 

It is also a challenge for parents of these chidlren because there are not one answer that fits all circumstances. Emotional and sensoryoverload, as well as other experiences, permeate their life. Extra sensory input is not simple to process as an adult or young child. Parenting the unpredictable nature of when this overwhelm could take place is also not simple or easy. This is where I joyfully come into your world and assist both you and your child, and ultimate your whole family, with guidance, love, compassion, AND ANSWERS specifically for your child.