How To Help Sensitive Children Who Are Irritated By Anything

Many children are very sensitive and easily irritated. Sometimes any attitude can hurt your feelings. If you want to turn this sensitivity into something positive, let’s show you some ideas below.

How can we help sensitive children? These children are more emotional, vulnerable – and offended quite easily – more than other children. For this reason, we must be especially careful and detect if our child is highly sensitive.

These children interpret everything that happens to them as something very bad or sad. If they fall, they cry disproportionately and take a long time to calm down. If they are reprimanded or if someone speaks loudly to them, it is very painful and they are very sad…

Without a doubt, each of us has a character and a personality, and these sensitive children will continue to be that way as adults too. Therefore, it is important to identify and help them. In this article, we will explain how you can do this.

How sensitive are children?

They  interpret any behavior, look, or comment by someone else as an attack on them, and they usually respond with impulsiveness, either through a tantrum or crying, or with a violent reaction.

We must help them to feel good about themselves, increasing their confidence and thus improving their relationships with other people.

Generally,  when a child is very sensitive and is irritated by anything, he can also have low self-esteem  and this sensitivity is caused by having a negative self-concept of himself, which causes insecurity and fear of being devalued by others.

Characteristics of sensitive children

Weaknesses

• They can be spiteful.
• They feel guilty easily.
• They stay focused on their inner self and are more distracted.
• They complain constantly.
• They often feel sorry for themselves and feel like victims in any conflict.

• They have a hard time forgiving  when they feel betrayed.

Strong points

• They like to help others.
• They are creative people.
• Physical contact, for them, is something important.
• They are clear about their wants and needs.
• They have great emotional intelligence.
• They are usually very empathetic, understanding others’ feelings and needs well.
• Communication can be one of your strengths.

How to help sensitive children

• Always give constructive criticism, never offensive.
• Avoid humiliating punishments or punishments that make them feel bad.
• Give lots of love, kisses, hugs, caresses, compliments, etc.
• Offer our unconditional love.
• Let them know that we are proud of them  and that we love them the way they are.
• Our expectations must always be tailored to the child’s personal characteristics.
• Avoid correcting, criticizing or judging things the child has done incorrectly.

• Reinforce and congratulate  whenever you do things correctly.
• Make clear the idea that the important thing is to be a good and happy person, not perfect.

If our child is highly sensitive and gets annoyed about anything, we have to reflect and think if maybe we’re not being too picky about him. It is true that the  discipline is very important, but always healthy and affectionate way.

How to help sensitive children turn their sensitivity into something positive?

• We must not try to cheer up or underestimate their state of mind.
• All children need to be listened to, but sensitive children need even more  so that they can develop their personality.

• Always listen to your children, even if what they have to say is not important.
• Be aware of your feelings. If the child tells us about a problem, we should listen carefully, without judgment. They don’t expect a solution from us, they simply expect to feel accompanied and listened to.
• Use phrases that express empathy, never censorship.
• We must give her time and space to feel better. Give them as much time as they need and never rush them, as you would lose everything you’ve achieved. We have to be patient.
• Help them forget and forgive their disappointments. If we empathize with what they are feeling and help them manage their emotions, they will eventually come to recognize that they too can make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Now you know how to help sensitive children and what their characteristics are. So you just need to put some of these ideas into practice if you realize your child is very sensitive. Certainly, this sensitivity will eventually become a skill. A good education will make your son or daughter a very kind adult.

These ideas can be useful for everyone and can always be applied, even if our children are not very sensitive. Put them into practice!