DEVELOPING SELF-REGULATION IN CHILDREN
“Maturity also can't be hurried up nor is it guaranteed. Only growing older is guaranteed. And I think many of us could think about adults in our lives who are incredibly immature, who maybe are on a maturity level, not much beyond a five or six or seven years old. And it may be that they are not very developed when it comes to their integrative functioning, their mixing of conflicting feelings.”
This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I’m going to dig in a little deeper on developing self-regulation in children. I’m going to provide parents and educators with signs to look for when the self-regulating skill is already developing and how to encourage its development even further.
Some of the topics covered in this episode include:
- Exposing facts and fiction when it comes to self-regulation and its development in children.
- The role of integrative functioning in children’s self-regulation skills; when this usually develops and why sometimes it doesn’t develop on schedule.
- Unpacking the five steps of emotional maturity by Dr. Gordon Neufeld and its role in self-regulation in children.
- What to do when your child loses their ability to self-regulate.
Understanding how self-regulation develops in children is an integral concept in parenting. Knowing the facts behind self-regulation helps ease anxiety for a lot of parents out there. In this episode, I hope that I can help parents nurture an environment that is needed so that self-regulation can develop in your child.
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