by Karen Stone | Aug 27, 2021 | 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...
by Karen Stone | Jul 28, 2021 | Accountability, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, EQ Information, EQ Success, Feelings, Racism, Recent News, Social and Emotional Learning
Today I want to talk about one of the most important things we can do as a parent or teacher, which is, helping children manage emotions. Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand your emotions and manage them and Emotional intelligence skills are not...
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...
by Karen Stone | Nov 3, 2020 | change, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, Feelings, Kindness, love, mindfulness, Uncategorized
Parenting the pandemic is extremely challenging. Parenting is challenging regardless of your backgrounds, cultures, race or religion. However, a pandemic happens not even once in a lifetime. Charting a path becomes each individual’s responsibility....
by Karen Stone | Oct 23, 2020 | Accountability, Acknowledgement, awareness, change, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, meditation, mindfulness, resilience
How does mindfulness promote emotional intelligence? Most people associate mindfulness with meditation and in many ways it certainly is. However, meditation goes beyond sitting in one place and clearing your head often experiencing soulful music.  As I have...
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...
