Self-Reg Book Report

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Self-Reg is a ground-breaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of children emotions and behavior that serves as a practical guide for parents to help their children engage calmly and successfully in learning and life. The main theme of the book is to grasp a better understanding on one’s own self-regulation and the ability to use the elements towards success in the process of learning. Entrenched in decades of clinical practice and research by leading child psychologist Dr. Stuart Shanker. Self-Regulation manipulates the power of the parent-child relationship for positive change in their life. In addition, self-regulation is the nervous system's way of responding to stress. A generation of children and teens are being shown with excessively high levels of stress and, as a result, an explosion of emotional, social, learning, behavior, and physical health problems. However, few parents recognize the “hidden stressors” that their children and teens are struggling with such as, physiological as well as social and emotional. Therefore, The main problem Shanker is addressing is to develop a new lens into looking at self-regulation not as skill that needs to be tamed but, to understand our responses to threat or stress, to develop different self-regulation skills, and to help children understand their emotions and self-regulate in order to response differently and positively in their life A rooted view of child rearing is recognizing our children as lacking self-control or will-power, but the …show more content…

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