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Here's a statement that I've heard many times before: "I wonder how I'll feel now that my child is in the same class as THAT child." Another school year has begun, and as parents and students [...]

This is an excerpt of Dr. Shanker's monthly article for Psychology Today. Read the full article, When to Push a Child, here. There is a fundamental difference between perseverance and compulsion. Perseverance is Blue Brain. It [...]

This article was inspired by Dr. Shanker’s keynote lecture at the 2017 Self-Reg Summer Symposium. Learn more about SRSS here. If you’ve ever seen Stuart Shanker give a talk you’ll notice a couple of things [...]

The first “Back to School” sale I came across this year was on July 2nd. Down came the Canada 150th specials and up went the early deals to get us prepared for the first days [...]

With Susan Hopkins, Corinne Catalano and Martel Catalano The 'A Chat Across Borders' video series aims to discuss the culture of heightened stress that we find ourselves living in today, and how Shanker Self-Reg can [...]

We are in the midst of one of the most exciting and profound revolutions ever seen in our understanding of human functioning and development. As a result of striking advances in neuroscience, physiology and psychology, [...]