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Self-reg, how to help your child (and you) break the stress cycle and successfully engage with life, Dr. Stuart Shanker with Teresa Barker

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

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non fiction

Self-reg

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Dr. Stuart Shanker with Teresa Barker

how to help your child (and you) break the stress cycle and successfully engage with life

"Self-regulation can dramatically improve a child's mood, attention, and concentration. It can help children to feel empathy, and to cultivate the sorts of virtues that most parents know are vital for their child's long-term well-being. Self-regulation brings about profound and lasting transformation that continues throughout life. Dr. Shanker translates decades of his findings from working with children into practical, prescriptive advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to develop their self-regulation skills and teach their children to do the same and engage successfully with life for optimal learning, social, and emotional growth."--Front flap of jacket

Part I: Self-reg: essential for living and learning. The power of self-reg -- More than marshmallows: self-regulation versus self-control -- No small matter: arousal regulation and the interbrain -- Under the boab tree: the five-domain model for self-reg -- Part II: The five domains. Eat, play, sleep: the biological domain -- Monster in the attic: the emotion domain -- Calm, alert, and learning: the cognitive domain -- A new lens for looking at social development: the social domain -- The better self: empathy and the prosocial domain -- Part III: Teens, temptations, and parents under pressure. The power and perils of adolescence -- More: desire, dopamine, and the surprising biology of boredom (the reward system) -- Parents under pressure: where do we go from here?

Self-regulation