by SoftStone | Jun 14, 2018 | CJ's Tips, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Kindness, Parenting, Repetition
How do we teach children to become empathetic? Let’s begin this when children are acquiring their language skills. This way they will incorporate this skill into their everyday communication with you, your family and their friends. Teach them to share kind...
by SoftStone | Jun 7, 2018 | CJ's Tips, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Parenting, Positive Feedback, Responsibility, Uncategorized
Hello Parents of Young Children! Today it is so important for young children to develop the social and emotional skills to feel good about themselves, make friends easily, succeed in school and in summer activities, and manage their emotions in their everyday...
by SoftStone | May 10, 2018 | About Karen Stone, Accountability, Acknowledgement, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Information, EQ Success, Kindness, Parenting, Positive Feedback, Responsibility
Are mother’s different today than I was? Considering the cultural change in expectations for woman today, I would think so.  I recently listened to the audiobook, the Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. I learned a great deal about myself and the...
by SoftStone | Mar 30, 2018 | About Karen Stone, Accountability, Acknowledgement, children and politics, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Gratefulness, Kindness, Parenting, Positive Feedback, Recent News, Responsibility, Uncategorized
The March for Our Lives was attended by over a 1000 people in our local community. The march of the 17 coffins by the youth was touching and reverent. The youth speeches were well-written and each one spoke to a different perspective of gun control. Our march was...
by SoftStone | Mar 12, 2018 | About Karen Stone, Accountability, children and politics, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Gratefulness, Kindness, Parenting, Positive Feedback, Repetition, Responsibility
Having been a part of a faculty in a high school right after Columbine, I witnessed many lock downs and an armed guard walking our halls. I spent more time in the parking lot than in my office. I was working as a Learning Disabilities Specialist at the time and...
by SoftStone | Jan 31, 2018 | Acknowledgement, CJ's Tips, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Kindness, Parenting, Positive Feedback, Responsibility
Children Becoming EQ Smart is now happening on our new YouTube Channel, “CJ’s Land of Love and Joy.” Each episode teaches one of Dan Goleman’s 7 attributes of emotional intelligence. We will be raising a new generation of kinder and more...
