Talking at the World Forum on Early Care and Education in Belfast last week (June 16-19), Stuart Shanker, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at York University, Ontario, Canada, said, 'About half of all our kids arrive in school, Grade 1, with serious challenges in self-regulation - 27 per cent have very serious issues and another 25 per cent are muddling through.'
The problem, he said, stems from 'an explosion of babies whose hypersensitivities are so overpowering that the children have to shut down to protect themselves.'
He said such a response prevents a baby from sustaining the brain-building interactions between mother and child that are essential to learning how to self-regulate.
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