Many of today's youth are very stressed. We see this manifesting itself in ever increasing rates of mental illnesses. Stuart Shanker, one of the guru's of self regulation describes self regulation as this:
"In the simplest terms, self-regulation refers to the neural processes that control the energy expended to deal with a stressor and then recover. When a child's stress levels are too high various systems for thinking and metabolic recovery are compromised. The signs of when this is happening show up in the child's behaviour, or mood, or attention, or for that matter, physical well-being. And judging from the growing numbers of problems that we're seeing in kids in these areas, it would seem that Canadian children are dealing with far too much stress today."
Huffington Post, Why Are Canadian Kids So Stressed Out?This blog will be a learning journey, as we learn together about how self regulation affects our children and ourselves and ways we can manage it.
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