Stuart Shanker & Co.

"Adults who work with and care for children need to pay close attention to their own self-regulation. The better we can remain optimally regulated, the better we can help a student to achieve optimal regulation." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"The regulating teacher responds to a child's distress in a regulating matter. What's fascinating about it is how quickly the child responds to this kind of regulating treatment." 🕊️ #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Merry Christmas! 🎁 A message from my family to our growing World Community: Happy Self-Reg!

"Excessive stress impairs the ability to pay attention, solve problems, get along with classmates, grow emotionally and develop empathy and internal standards." 🪴 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy holidays from the Shanker household! We are so grateful for the light you have brought into children's, parents, strangers and the Shanker Family's lives.

"The metabolic forces involved in our response to stress use up energy, which is why excessive stress can affect children's ability to delay gratification or manage their behaviour and emotions." 🪴 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Self-Reg helps teachers recognize and respond to their students' needs, improve their relationships and ultimately, help their students learn how to care for themselves and self-regulate." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is International Human Solidarity Day. The name Self-Reg Global speaks for itself.

"Remember: What you may find overly stressful, another family or member of the family might find up-regulating. There's no one size fits all here." 🍏 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Stress is a very individual and subtle phenomenon, and that's why it's so important for us to understand and recognize the signs of stress behaviour." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy National Maple Syrup Day! I made a mistake 15 years ago. I made my kids maple syrup. Now they won’t eat anything except “Shanker Farms Maple Syrup.”

"Stressors can change over time, but they can also change according to the mood or state that the child is in. So for the same child, what's a stress in one moment might not be a stress in another." 🪴 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Self-regulation, in its original, psychophysiological sense, refers to how well we manage stress. Every time we experience a stressor we have to burn a bit of energy to keep all our biological and psychological systems running smoothly." 🌱 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is International Universal Health Coverage Day. A message from my sons: This Is What Makes Canada Great! 👏

Today is International Anti-Corruption Day. Workers of the World: Unite under the banner of #SelfReg. That’s the only way we will finally defeat the miasma of corruption.

"Example classroom applications for enhancing self-regulation in the biological domain include reducing visual and auditory distractors, predicable daily schedules and seating changes and use of adaptive seating." 💝 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"As teachers and parents, we must learn how to observe children's energy levels throughout the day and make adjustments in practice that help children to down-regulate or up-regulate." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is International Volunteer Day, but it should be called International
Co-Reg Day! 💙

"Adults who work with and care for children need to pay close attention to their own self-regulation. The better we can remain optimally regulated, the better we can help a student to achieve optimal regulation." 💝 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is #GivingTuesday. 🎁 Get your CARE system in the midbrain humming today!

"The idea that a defiant child's core problem may be anxiety runs counter to our usual conception of defiance – as something we can't allow for fear that the child will get more and more defiant and out of control." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"The metabolic forces involved in our response to stress use up energy, which is why excessive stress can affect children's ability to delay gratification or manage their behaviour and emotions." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"So many educators seek to go Self-Reg and yet miss that Self-Reg is grown and lives within relationships, and it therefore has to be about adult regulation and balance too." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Self-Reg is about grounding living and learning in the five practices of Self-Reg as part of a healthy lifestyle." ✨ #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. If you want to end violence against women once and for all, you MUST learn Self-Reg.

"As we ask “Why?” and “Why now?” for students and do our stress detecting, we also do this for our overstressed adults." 💝 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Self-Reg allows you to see the behaviour (misbehaviour) as communication and that stress behaviour (versus misbehaviour) is evident." 🌷 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"Self-Reg is not something that can be bought off the rack but has to be custom-tailored." 🎁 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

"This deeply entrenched bias (self-control mind-set) prevents us from recognizing the signs that tell us why a student is having these problems." 💫 #SelfReg [🔗 self-reg.ca]

Happy World Philosophy Day! I wouldn’t have believed it possible, but I am discovering the joy of philosophy all over again. 🌎