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 | Aug 9, 2021 | Accountability, change, Conscious Parenting, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, empathy, SEL, Social and Emotional Learning, Teachers, Uncategorized
Masking teaches children empathy for themselves and others and is the emotionally intelligent behavior of adults experiencing this pandemic. It is such a simple solution and yet meets such resistance from those who have not evolved socially or emotionally. ...
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 | Jun 7, 2021 | children, delay gratification, early childhood education, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Positive Feedback, SEL, Social and Emotional Learning, Uncategorized
Social and emotional learning includes promoting the important skill of delayed gratification. This became a blatant reality during this pandemic. So many activities were put on hold. As a result, some managed this well and others put themselves and others in danger....
by Karen Stone | May 14, 2021 | children, early childhood education, Educators, emotional intelligence resources, Parenting, SEL, Social and Emotional Learning, Uncategorized
Lets’ look at Parenting and Social Emotional Learning and how there is a disconnect between school and home environments. Social and emotional learning is crucial to the healthy development of young children. However, there seems to be a disconnect between what...
by Karen Stone | May 4, 2021 | Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, happy thoughts, Parenting, positive voices, self-esteem, Social and Emotional Learning
Social emotional learning builds self-confidence in children. All language development needs to include the demonstration or modeling of speaking and talking with positive voices. Children learn by modeling. Educators and parents need to be aware of their language...
by Karen Stone | Apr 16, 2021 | About Karen Stone, Conscious Parenting, early childhood education, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Skills, SEL, Social and Emotional Learning, Teachers
Social emotional learning for kids is now coming to you live on YouTube. EQ Mama speaks to your children about important social emotional learning skills with her buddy CJ (Creator of Joy). Each episode focuses on a different skill with lots of practice in later...
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 26, 2021 | Accountability, CJ's Tips, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Parenting, Positive Feedback
When children have social emotional learning, they are more prepared for life. Life preparedness means from early childhood to adulthood. Children need to relate to others, be empathic and address their own emotions. If parents and teaches always step in and take...
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 24, 2021 | children, delay gratification, Delay of gratification, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, impulse control, Parenting, Positive Feedback, self-esteem, Uncategorized
Teaching children to delay gratification and have impulse control is an important EQ skill often puzzling to parents. When I parented, I certainly had no idea how to do this. A wonderful study completed over 50 years ago at Stanford University called the Marshmallow...
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 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 | Feb 8, 2021 | CJ's Tips, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Positive Feedback
Saying affirmations help young children self-soothe and stay calm especially when their caregivers aren’t present. One of the most important skill sets children need is how to manage their emotions. For very young children this is difficult and yet crucial to...
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 | Jan 26, 2021 | awareness, change, Conscious Parenting, democracy, emotional intelligence resources, EQ Information, Parenting, Recent News, Teachers
As the New Year begins, we all stop and think about the past one and how to choose differently. For me, my greatest challenge ahead stems from the past election chaos.  Though I donated money, signed petitions and alerted my senators and congressman of my concerns,...
by Karen Stone | Jan 15, 2021 | Conscious Parenting, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Skills, Kindness, mentors, Parenting, Uncategorized
Videos teaching emotional intelligence to children are a great way for your family to engage in quality technological time. Emotional intelligence learned at a very young age promotes creativity, logical thinking, accountability and the phenomenon of raising...
by Karen Stone | Jan 13, 2021 | democracy, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Skills, Freedom, Kindness, Parenting
How do we teach children to have hope in these challenging times? Hope is the ability to see a light at the end of the tunnel. For children this is difficult as they have limited experience in the ebb and flow of the human experience. Even adults in these times are...
by Karen Stone | Dec 29, 2020 | change, Conscious Parenting, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, emotional intelligence activities, Parenting, Uncategorized
We have made a mess of this world. Let’s change how our children think so that we can clean it up. This can only happen by raising a new generation emotionally intelligent children! With all our intelligence and technology, we have a leaders with no conscience...
by Karen Stone | Dec 18, 2020 | Acknowledgement, Delay of gratification, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Skills, holiday giving, Kindness, Parenting
Children in community service is a great esteem builder. When participating in community service in their communities, it is an opportunity to build their self-esteem and confidence. Especially this holiday year, so many ways to teach your children how to extend...
by Karen Stone | Dec 14, 2020 | emotional intelligence resources, Gratefulness, holiday giving, innate goodness, Kindness, Parenting, Service, Uncategorized
What does holiday gift giving with emotional intelligence mean? Up until this year, holiday giving has been a mindless journey to spend money and be overly indulgent. People over extend their credit jeopardizing their physical, emotional and psychological well-being...
