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 we are seeing today an explosion, a literal explosion of stress-related problems.

These might be physical, they might be mental health.

And and it's obviously due to and it's been much harder on our own kids.

So it's obviously due to the very high stress levels that all of society is experiencing.

But it's also due to a couple of other factors.

One of them is what we call maladaptive ways of handling your stress.

Maladaptive self-regulation.

And the other one is not having enough of the experiences or the neurochemicals that turn off stress, that turn off the stress response.

So I think the reason why the Merit Center ha has grown the way it has is simply the case that there is an enormous need right now.

And it's not just for kids or their parents, but it's for educators or for anyone who woke up this morning and made the mistake of reading the day's news.

Well, it's a scary time because we're not just seeing an increase in, let's say, kids that are struggling with anxiety.

We're seeing an increase in actual anxiety disorders.

In fact, they've doubled.

We our latest data shows that about one third of all teens, uh adolescents from I think it was fourteen to twenty three have an anxiety disorder.

Th these are crazy numbers.

And when we talk about an anxiety disorder, what we're really talking about is a kid who is relying, let's say, on avoidance, can't go to school, can't go to work, can't deal with life, can't can't see their friends, they are and and and obviously quite miserable.

And you know, I could go down through the list of I could talk about various kinds of issues that we're seeing that are stress-related disorders.

It could be eating disorder, it could be social.

But the point is, okay, we see this happening and we know why.

We can pretty much, you know, you and I could we could spend half an hour now talking about what the stresses are.

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