Self-reg
Subtitle: how to help your child (and you) break the stress cycle and successfully engage with life
By: Dr. Stuart Shanker, with Teresa Barker
Contributors: Barker, Teresa, author
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781594206092
Subjects: Stress in children; Parenting; Stress management for children; Child psychology
Description: "The first parenting book to bring the science and psychology of children's behavior together to build brain/body awareness for self-regulation and success,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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?.