Understanding Your Parenting Sensitivity

Every parent carries an invisible lens shaped by their own childhood experiences. This lens — your parenting sensitivity — filters how you interpret your child’s behavior, what triggers your anxiety, and which needs feel easiest (or hardest) to meet. Research in attachment and developmental psychology has identified three primary sensitivities: Proximity Sensitive, Achievement Sensitive, and Distance Sensitive. Most of us lean toward one pattern, though we may carry elements of all three.