by SoftStone | May 29, 2020 | Accountability, Acknowledgement, children and politics, Conscious Parenting, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, Recent News, Repetition, Uncategorized
What we need is emotional intelligence and empathy for dealing with the pandemic. Perhaps it is a vaccine or something more elusive that will finally put us at ease, but until then our best defense is empathy for dealing with the pandemic. Most of us have established...
by SoftStone | Apr 17, 2019 | Acknowledgement, CJ's Tips, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Success, Feelings, Gratefulness, Kindness, Parenting, Positive Feedback, Repetition, Uncategorized
Does your family share their gratefulness around the holiday dinner table? Let me share a short story with you. When my daughter was a teenager, she wanted designer jeans. I was a single parent and they were not in my price range. She was furious with me and said...
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 | 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 Karen Stone | Nov 22, 2017 | About Karen Stone, Accountability, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Gratefulness, Parenting, Repetition, Uncategorized
You might think this is a strange topic to write about at Thanksgiving but giving thanks and being grateful helps us to acquire our 7th Emotional Intelligence attribute: how to persist in the face of frustration. For a few weeks a year we talk about giving thanks and...
