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The Self-Reg View of Resilience

The Self-Reg View of Resilience

by | 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...
The Self-Reg View of Obesity

The Self-Reg View of Obesity

by | Feb 29, 2016 | Self-Reg Blog

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 the Self-Control paradigm,...
The Self-Reg View of Risky Behaviour

The Self-Reg View of Risky Behaviour

by | 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...
The Self-Reg View of Depression

The Self-Reg View of Depression

by | 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...