Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic

Practical Strategies to Support and Nurture Your Highly Sensitive and Strong-Willed Child

Raising Your Spirited Child offers parents a compassionate and practical guide for understanding and supporting children who are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and energetic than their peers. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka explains that these so-called “difficult” or “strong-willed” traits are actually strengths that, when properly guided, can lead to resilience, creativity, and success in adulthood. Drawing from the latest research in temperament, neurobiology, and child development, the book provides strategies for managing challenging behaviors while nurturing the child’s inherent gifts.