by Stuart Shanker | Apr 16, 2020 | Self-Reg Blog
When I was 17 years old, I made one of those incredibly stupid and life-altering decisions that seventeen-year-olds are so prone to make. I was on track for playing basketball at an American university, torn between a small college where I’d get to be a starter and a...
by Stuart Shanker | May 14, 2018 | Self-Reg Blog
In some ways, Janus would be the perfect symbol for Self-Reg. Partly, because Janus was the god of beginnings and transitions; but mostly, because Janus’ two faces were supposed to represent looking to the future and looking to the past. We might say the same thing...
by Stuart Shanker | Feb 3, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog
I had such a thought-provoking experience the other day. Friends had asked me to talk to their young teen about some trouble he’d gotten into at school over, of all things, his refusal to finish a science project. His teacher had given him an extension and, when he...
by Stuart Shanker | Oct 29, 2015 | Apply Self-Reg, Self-Reg Blog, Self-Reg for Parents, Self-Reg in Schools
The number of high school students struggling with serious mood, behaviour or addiction problems is going through the roof. There are large numbers of underachieving students and early school-leavers. The growing signs of these problems in younger students have...
by John Hoffman | Sep 26, 2015 | Apply Self-Reg, Self-Reg Blog, Self-Reg for Parents, Self-Reg in Schools
Adolescence and self-regulation. What do we know? What myths are ready to be banished? How long did you say it lasts? Keynote presentation Self-Reg Summer Symposium, 2015. Presented by Jean Clinton, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and...
