by The MEHRIT Centre | Dec 16, 2025 | Apply Self-Reg, Learn Self-Reg, Self-Reg Community, Self-Reg for Parents, Self-Reg for the Early Years, Self-Reg in Schools
In this powerful keynote clip, Dr. Stuart Shanker takes us deep into what it really means to recognize stress in infants, toddlers, and young children—and why this understanding is essential if we want to protect their spirit. Drawing on decades of research with...
by The MEHRIT Centre | Jul 10, 2025 | Learn Self-Reg, Self-Reg for Parents, Self-Reg for the Early Years
In this video, we tackle the myth that children are too young to understand Self-Reg concepts. We share an insightful story of how even young children, as young as four, can grasp the idea of their brain’s different states, like the “red brain” and...
by Stuart Shanker | May 7, 2019 | Self-Reg Blog
The Future Lies in the Hands of Self-Reg Parents, Schools, and Communities I first started thinking about social justice and democracy when I was 16 years old. I had just attended a political rally where Pierre Elliot Trudeau talked about a Just Society: one in which...
by Susan Hopkins | Jun 22, 2018 | Self-Reg Blog
The other night I “pulled the plug” on Netflix for good. It was an easy decision after I used a Self-Reg lens to reframe a parenting problem I’d been struggling with for several months. Here’s where it started: “Siena, turn off the TV.” “Okay.” Followed by nothing....
by Stuart Shanker | Jun 19, 2017 | Self-Reg Blog
Back in 2001, David Sobel, an Education Prof at Antioch University in New England, published a fascinating book called Children’s Special Places. He was interested in the question of when and why children build forts. This typically begins around the age of 5 or 6....
