by Karen Stone | Oct 13, 2020 | EQ Information, Positive Feedback
How do your praise your child so it’s remembered, so it is felt, processed and committed to memory?  I make no bones about it! Children do not bank your praise and save it for a rainy day. It slips right by them. Why is that? It needs to be delivered so that...
by Karen Stone | Oct 9, 2020 | Bullying, Conscious Parenting, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, emotional intelligence activities, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Feelings, Kindness, love, Parenting, Positive Feedback, support, Uncategorized
Let’s look at controlling our inner bully. Undoubtedly, we all have the capacity to be a bully and sometimes we bully ourselves. What do you say to the bully inside you that is emotionally intelligent? In previous blogs, I have talked about different aspects...
by Karen Stone | Sep 28, 2020 | Accountability, Bullying, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, Feelings, Parenting, Positive Feedback
What do you say to a bully that sounds emotionally intelligent? What action or behavior do most people take when confronted by a bully? Bullies are interesting people. Life always presents us with a choice of behavior. Are our actions positive or negative? Do we...
by Karen Stone | Sep 18, 2020 | Accountability, Conscious Parenting, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, emotional intelligence activities, emotions, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Feelings, mindfulness, Uncategorized
Bullying is emotionally painful always and it buries deep inside you. Most behaviors learned are from modeling beginning at birth. Young children watch their adults and mimic their words, tones and postures. It was getting better for a while with the schools...
by Karen Stone | Sep 11, 2020 | Accountability, Acknowledgement, change, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, EQ Information, EQ Success, Feelings, Health, mindfulness, resilience, Uncategorized
How do we increase our emotional intelligence skills in the difficult times we are experiencing now? Undoubtedly, stopping to understand ourselves and our emotions in the midst of a pandemic and critical election is daunting. And yet, what better time to stop and...
by Karen Stone | Sep 4, 2020 | Academics, Accountability, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, emotions, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, mindfulness, Parenting, Safety, Schools, Uncategorized
Back to school anxieties always need emotional intelligence skills. However, the pandemic is presenting challenges that far exceed the normal back to school drama and trauma. Children usually experience the fears demonstrated throughout history. Such as, will I like...
