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 | Feb 12, 2021 | children, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, mindfulness, Parenting, resilience, Uncategorized
Teaching mindfulness meditation to children lessons their anxieties and fears. So, by now you are asking what is mindful meditation. Mindful meditation is sitting or lying down in a quiet place. Then you select an audio meditation and listen to someone guide you...
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 | 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 | 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...