What you need to know about raising a highly sensitive child

Your child takes in everything from the world around him, he seems highly perceptive, observant. He misses nothing, not even the nuances of mum’s and dad’s emotions.

“Up to 30% of children are highly sensitive,” says chartered counselling psychologist Dr Aoife Durcan, whose book, Your Highly Sensitive Child, is out this Thursday.

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