You Do Not Have to Figure This Out Alone

You Do Not Have to Figure This Out Alone

There is something that happens in the first hour of the Self-Reg Summer Symposium that is hard to describe if you have not been there. You walk into a room, or you open your laptop if you are joining online, and you realize very quickly that the people around you...
Co-Regulation Is Not a Calming Strategy. It Is a Relationship.

Co-Regulation Is Not a Calming Strategy. It Is a Relationship.

A lot of people come to Self-Reg having already heard the phrase “co-regulation.” They might even feel like they know what it means: helping a child calm down, using a quiet voice, getting down to their level. Those things are not wrong. But they are the...
When Effort Collapses: What My 7-Year-Old Is Teaching Me About Self-Reg 

When Effort Collapses: What My 7-Year-Old Is Teaching Me About Self-Reg 

Blog by Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Program Alumni Kaitie Westbrook Recognizing the Moment When Capacity Disappears There’s a moment I’ve come to recognize in my 7-year-old. It happens after he’s already started his homework, when he’s shown me he can do it. Then...