SELF-REG
PARENTING
We help parents, caregivers, and organizations working with families learn to read and reframe dysregulated stress behaviour while developing the skills and strategies to support childrenās improved self-regulation and overall well-being. Self-Reg gives us the tools to reframe behaviour, co-regulate, enhance resilience, and restore calm, energy, and joy.Ā
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SELF-REG PARENTING FEATURES
Self-Reg for Parents
The ultimate, long-term Self-Reg goal is to help children acquire the necessary understanding of when and how to manage their own energy and tension, so they can adapt to the various stresses of life. But Self-Reg is also personal. If we are going to support our childrenās self-regulation we first have to…
Stressors Experienced by Parents Raising āDifferently Wiredā Children
Iām the mother of two young people with multiple āinvisibleā disabilities, and in my consulting work I support parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These experiences have given me insight into…
āReframingā Challenging Behaviour
Parents of new babies are forever asking why. āWhy is she crying? Is she hungry, wet, scared, lonely, bored?ā Since we canāt just ask her, we put on our detectiveās hat. We think back to previous occasions, experiment with trial-and-error, ask somebody knowledgeable. Things start to change around the age of three…
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MOST RECENT PARENTING BLOGS
Have Your Say: Biggest Challenge with Practicing Self-Reg
Lots of people get really excited when they start learning about Self-Reg and they want to dive in right away. And thatās great! But, like any new way of doing or thinking about your life, relationships, and issues, learning to practice Self-Reg can be challenging, in...
Have Your Say: Spring Stressors
Many people, particularly those of us who live inĀ cold winter climates, see spring as a time of hope and renewal - or at least the beginning of warmer weather. That doesnāt sound stressful at all, does it? On the other handā¦ Spring, like almost any period or...
The Five Practices of Self-Reg
This infographic by educator Kristin Wiens illustrates the Five Practices of Self-Reg (previously called steps). Reframe the Behaviour: Look at and understand the behaviour differently, in terms of the stress that caused it. Recognize the Stressors: Be a āstress...
Ways to Restore Energy
Learning how to ādoā Self-Reg is multi-faceted. It includes learning and understanding the science and theory and then using that knowledge to develop new ways of seeing, understanding and responding to behaviour and reactions in others (and ourselves). That is an...
Have Your Say: Reducing Stressors
When we think of good stress management the word coping often springs to mind, instead of reducing stressors. Yet coping has traditionally implied a kind of self-controlāpowering our way through stressful periods with āgritā and āfortitude.ā That kind of coping...
Examples of Stressors in the 5 Domains
People tend to think of a stressor as somethingāa situation, experience or stimulusāthat is distressful. However, thatās not always the case. Some fairly routine stimuli are stressors even though we donāt think of them as such. Why? Because what all stressors having...
