Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life

By Stuart Shanker

Book Overview

A groundbreaking book to help parents and their kids engage calmly and successfully in learning and life, Few parents recognize the "hidden stressors" that children and teens struggle with today. The entrenched view sees children as lacking self-control or willpower, but the real basis-for their behavioral, emotional, or learning problems-often lies with excessive stress. The solution is not "trying harder." It's self-regulation, the way we respond to and recover from stress. With the right understanding, self-regulation dramatically improves a child's mood, attention, and concentration, bringing about profound and lasting change. In Self-Reg, Dr. Stuart Shanker translates decades of findings in neuroscience and psychology into prescriptive advice for parents giving them concrete ways to help their children-and themselves!-develop their self-regulation skills and engage successfully with life. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143110411
• ISBN13: 9780143110415
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"