by Karen Stone | Apr 16, 2021 | About Karen Stone, Conscious Parenting, early childhood education, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Skills, SEL, Social and Emotional Learning, Teachers
Social emotional learning for kids is now coming to you live on YouTube. EQ Mama speaks to your children about important social emotional learning skills with her buddy CJ (Creator of Joy). Each episode focuses on a different skill with lots of practice in later...
by Karen Stone | Apr 5, 2021 | children, Conscious Parenting, empathy, Feelings, Parenting, SEL, Social and Emotional Learning, Uncategorized
Teaching (SEL) social and emotional learning enhances empathy in children. Sharing kindnesses stimulates their emotional brains to experience caring, loving, helpful, nice and their innate goodness to mention just a few. Empathy is lacking today for differences and...
by Karen Stone | Mar 26, 2021 | Accountability, CJ's Tips, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Parenting, Positive Feedback
When children have social emotional learning, they are more prepared for life. Life preparedness means from early childhood to adulthood. Children need to relate to others, be empathic and address their own emotions. If parents and teaches always step in and take...
by Karen Stone | Mar 12, 2021 | Accountability, children and politics, Daniel Goleman, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Information, EQ Skills, Feelings, Kindness, Parenting, Positive Feedback, Racism, Recent News
Teaching children the skills developing emotional intelligence combats systemic racism. Consider the premise that if we were raised with emotional intelligence that systemic racism would not be a factor in our society. As an example in recent years, Daniel...
by Karen Stone | Feb 24, 2021 | children, delay gratification, Delay of gratification, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, impulse control, Parenting, Positive Feedback, self-esteem, Uncategorized
Teaching children to delay gratification and have impulse control is an important EQ skill often puzzling to parents. When I parented, I certainly had no idea how to do this. A wonderful study completed over 50 years ago at Stanford University called the Marshmallow...
by Karen Stone | Feb 19, 2021 | Actions, awareness, children, choice, choices, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, Feelings, Uncategorized
Teaching young children the power of choice is so important! No, the devil did not make me do it! We did it all on our own. This concept came to me very late in life and it took me a while to wrap my brain around it and acknowledge its powerful truth. The habit of...
