Stuart Shanker

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 305a: Stuart Shanker on What Self-Regulation Is, Why It Matters, and How to Help Our Children (and Ourselves) Do It Better · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And at Oxford, I worked on self-regulation.

And so I was looking at self regulation as it developed in the early twentieth century by American physiologists and by Hanselier.

And they were really looking at self

regulating mechanisms.

That's a very important point.

I gave you an example just now.

There's a self-regulating mechanism between the stress response and oxytocin.

Babies are born self regulating.

So, how does a baby self-regulate?

Well, they fall asleep.

If the stress is too great, they can reduce the stress of now.

Uh remember, I I mentioned a while ago, stress is anything that requires us to burn energy to stay in balance.

So for a baby, the single biggest stress is probably light.

They've come from a dark environment, uh, and light is a stress.

It's uh you

You know, the the photons are hitting the hitting the eyes, hitting the nervous system, and you have to stay regulated.

And when stress gets too much for a baby, you know, you've taken your your little I was just dealing with this yesterday, someone taking their little baby to a bistro.

Baby is three weeks old.

And she said to me that the baby just falls asleep instantly when they go to the bistro.

So it's wonderful to get her to sleep.

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