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 16, 2020 | Accountability, democracy, Emotional Intelligence, Feelings, Independence, mindfulness, Responsibility
Let’s look at why voting is an emotionally intelligent exercise. Voting is a privilege and more than just an American thing to do. Choice provides us the ability to discern what we like and what we don’t. So often we hear the comment, “But I...
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...