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Mindful Parenting Tips for Raising Sensitive Children with Carrie Lingenfelter

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Kari Lingenfelter says teaching and speech therapy still did not prepare her for her first child.

1. Soul Care Mom Podcast focuses on mindful parenting for highly sensitive children, with Kari Lingenfelter as the featured guest. 2. Kari Lingenfelter is described as a former elementary educator, early childhood interventionist, speech therapist, and mindful mom of two children. 3. The episode asks how parents can raise emotionally aware kids while keeping their own inner peace. 4. Kari says she entered motherhood with an elementary ed and speech therapy background, then felt rocked by her first child. 5. She describes trying to achieve a perfect sleep schedule, a certain nursing pattern, and a polished “perfect mom vision.” 6. Spiritual family members helped her reconnect to her heart after her son was born. 7. Kari says her son’s blue eyes felt like a cue to “connect with me and we can figure out where to go.” 8. She says his temperament did not fit the schedule and he needed connection more than gadgets. 9. Katherine Wild connects that story to the stress of books that explain what to do but not how to connect. 10. Kari says mindful parenting has to include the mother’s emotional and spiritual life, not only the child’s routine. 11. Kari says she was told as a child to “stop being so sensitive,” which made the highly sensitive label resonate later. 12. She recommends the book Highly Sensitive Person and a highly sensitive parenting group on Facebook. 13. Kari says sensitive children may need extra hugs, more patience, and sensory support rather than a quick behavioral label. 14. She mentions the Whole Brain Child and says OTs can help with sensory tools at home. 15. Kari says neurodiversity education has changed since graduate school 12 years ago. 16. She contrasts old classroom goals that tried to make every student look the same with newer goals that support strengths and unique character. 17. She cites Dr. Lisa Miller’s research on spirituality in children and says kids are born curious, nature-connected, and spiritually driven. 18. Kari says her family uses mindset shifts, “manifestation,” Reiki level one, qigong, walking meditation, and a spiritual center. 19. The conversation stays warm and conversational, with Katherine asking follow-ups and Kari giving concrete family examples from ages 9 and 6. 20. Parents of sensitive or intense children who want practical mindset tools will find this useful, while listeners wanting hard behavioral techniques may skip it.

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A practical case for treating sensitivity as information, not a flaw.

The piece treats early motherhood as a reality check, not a tidy lesson. A professional plan does not survive contact with a first child, and that admission gives the discussion its edge. What works best is the refusal to treat sensitivity as a flaw.

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For when your child seems extra sensitive, and you want a calmer way to respond.

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