Not with rejection sensitivity. Rejection sensitivity hits harder as they become older. Rejection sensitivity means that I sometimes have to walk away from a conversation with the promise to come back to it later, when I’m calmer. My job is to make sure my rejection sensitivity doesn’t trigger a negative cycle that becomes theirs to handle. Rejection Sensitivity and Parenting: Next StepsADDITUDE IS HUMANArtificial intelligence does not create or edit any written content published by ADDitude.