My love and passion for understanding regulation started at home.
When my son was three, his regulation skills were a lot different than other kids his age. He struggled to handle zig-zags and pressing pause. I was struggling to understand how to support his regulation and was becoming frustrated and discouraged. Traditional behavior approaches suggested I ignore, remove/withhold attention, and other punitive strategies.
Those didn’t feel right.
I started to do a ton of my own research. I read The Whole Brain Child. I read Self-Reg. I read Beyond Behaviors. I dove in deep to learn about co-regulation. I wrote my book Max Learns to Pause.
I applied all of the information I had learned and the difference at home was OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE. All of a sudden I realized that my son’s regulation skills had differences similar to some of my students on caseload. I realized that the same strategies and work we had done together at home could be done at school too.
I realized that co-regulation and teaching self-regulation and executive function skills can and should be prioritized at home and school.
All too often there is a focus on behaviors, when we really need to understand the dysregulation and prioritize how adults respond to these behaviors and support their skill development in teaching, coaching, and modeling these skills. So the mission has evolved-
Equipping school teams to teach self-regulation & executive function skills through ✨responsive interactions ✨
