This is Part 3 of a 4-part interview series with Dr. Stuart Shanker. Click here to watch the entire series.
You may have noticed on your child’s report card, a self regulation area. It’s a big part of success criteria for kids. In fact I just had a parent teacher interview and I boldly told my one child’s teacher that I don’t care about their academic development right now, my priority is social and emotional development.
Without those skills nothing else matters to me.
They are the foundation for success.
“See a child differently, you see a different child.” – Dr. Stuart Shanker.
Dr. Stuart Shanker’s research validates the importance of social and emotional development and in this interview, Dr. Stuart Shanker and I are talking about kids who don’t quite fit into the mold of the school system and how to help them.
This is Part 3 of a 4-part interview series with Dr. Stuart Shanker. Click here to watch the entire series.
I struggle with this every day/week with my kids, especially my son. A loving and happy kid, buy his teacher is forever sending negative notes home, primarily because he’s goofing around…rough-housing with other boys or hi lack of focus. Like you I worry that if I try to mould him to the schools system of behaviour, then I chance squashing his “join de vivre”.
“Joie de vivre”…joy of life.