Children’s Mental Health Blog
Explore recent articles from Little Otter’s child and family mental health and wellness experts.
20 Tips for How to Understand and Parent Your Highly Sensitive Child
If you’re parenting a highly sensitive child, you know it can be full of extremes. These bright, intuitive kids are full of feistiness and intensity. Here are 12 traits of highly sensitive children, and 8 tips to parent them.
What is a Highly Sensitive Child?
What is a Highly Sensitive Child, or HSC? In this blog, the first in our three-part series, you’ll learn more about what makes a child “highly sensitive” and what that really means.
Why Won’t My Child Say Sorry?
“Our almost 4-year-old son finds it very difficult to apologize. How do we teach him to say ‘I’m sorry’?”
My 6-Year-Old Son Says Negative Things about Himself. Is He Depressed?
“My 6-year-old son is sensitive and says negative things about himself. I’m worried that he is depressed, and I need some advice. Can you help?”