by Stuart Shanker | Apr 1, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog, Self-Reg for Parents, Self-Reg for the Early Years
Gifts From the Spirit World In their 1996 Report on Aboriginal Peoples, the Royal Commission spelled out how: “Children hold a special place in Aboriginal cultures. According to tradition, they are gifts from the spirit world. They carry within them the gifts that...
by Stuart Shanker | Mar 10, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog
Over the past few years, a number of articles have appeared warning about the serious decline in student resilience. Not just what Robin Wilson calls an “epidemic of anguish” [Wilson], but what Peter Gray describes as a remarkably limited ability to deal with even...
by Stuart Shanker | Feb 29, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog
More Than Just Statistics I don’t want to write a blog about statistics. We all know that the obesity problem in children is very serious and that the number of obese youth is positively alarming. I want to talk instead about the suffering that is so often caused by...
by Stuart Shanker | Feb 18, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog
In our very first webinar in the ‘Epidemic of Epidemics’ series we looked at the “anxiety epidemic”; today I want to look at the opposite end of this spectrum, the epidemic of “manic” children and youth. Kids who are chronically hyper, driven to find ways to fuel...
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...
