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 | 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 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 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 | Feb 1, 2021 | Academics, Educators, Feelings, Recent News, Responsibility, Teachers
Teaching is certainly a work of heart. As an educator, my heart was always a factor in each moment of my teaching day. As children walk through your door, you get a sense of urgency from some of them. What happened to them at home that morning or on the way to...
by Karen Stone | Nov 18, 2020 | awareness, Bullying, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Skills, Feelings, Independence, Parenting
Parents, are your children emotionally safe when you aren’t present? We worry about our children’s physical safety but emotional safety hasn’t become a priority yet unless your child has fallen victim to emotional abuse. Oftentimes, children will...
