by Karen Stone | Dec 9, 2020 | About Karen Stone, Acknowledgement, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, EQ Information, EQ Success, Positive Feedback
Writing my book, “Is Your Child’s World Emotionally Safe?” was quite an adventure. It took me many months and many edits.  It provided me with a time to reflect back on this journey of attempting to provide emotional safety for myself. I felt it...
by Karen Stone | Dec 2, 2020 | awareness, change, Conscious Parenting, Daniel Goleman, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, resilience, Teachers
Your child’s success is 80% dependent upon emotional intelligence. Research has established that 80% of our success in all areas our lives is the result of emotional Intelligence skills. We all know very intelligent people who are unable to reach their...
by Karen Stone | Nov 23, 2020 | Accountability, awareness, Conscious Parenting, Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence resources, Gratefulness, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized
What I am grateful for this Thanksgiving may surprise you since it is quite extraordinary. This past week I had a conversation with my business coach. I discovered an important part of my journey for which I had not been grateful and took for granted. I write about,...
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...
by Karen Stone | Nov 16, 2020 | Accountability, choice, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Independence, innate goodness, Kindness, mentors, Uncategorized
What is innate goodness and how do we value it? Let’s separate out the two words. Innate by definition means that we are born with this trait. The definition of goodness is the quality of being good or moral excellence. Furthermore, the adjective good...
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 28, 2020 | EQ Information, EQ Skills
How do you, as parents, implement incorporating emotional intelligence skill development into your homes? Oh my goodness, I feel your angst and your frustration. You have so much on your plate already. Please do not give me one more thing to do. What if I told you...
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 | Oct 13, 2020 | EQ Information, Positive Feedback
How do your praise your child so it’s remembered, so it is felt, processed and committed to memory?  I make no bones about it! Children do not bank your praise and save it for a rainy day. It slips right by them. Why is that? It needs to be delivered so that...
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 SoftStone | Oct 2, 2020 | Accountability, children and politics, Daniel Goleman, democracy, emotional intelligence resources, EQ Information, EQ Skills, Freedom, Racism, Recent News
Is our President emotionally intelligent? This is not about politics or partisan behavior. This is about regaining decency and humanity to our White House. When referencing the seven attributes of Emotional Intelligence developed by Daniel Goleman, we may be able to...
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 SoftStone | Sep 16, 2020 | Conscious Parenting, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Skills, Independence, Parenting, Positive Feedback, resilience, Responsibility, Uncategorized
What are the best ways to help abused children heal, love or more? The question asked by many professionals, teachers, foster parents and all those who feel their pain. Having been bullied for many years, I have pondered this question in regards to myself. ...
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...
by Karen Stone | Sep 4, 2020 | 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 28, 2020 | Accountability, Acknowledgement, change, Daniel Goleman, Delay of gratification, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Gratefulness, Kindness, mindfulness, Responsibility, Uncategorized
What are the signs of high emotional intelligence. A number of signs take place in everyday situations. For instance, let’s look at your morning routine. Are you emotionally ready to tangle with the challenges of the day? Are you able to manage those...
by Karen Stone | Aug 21, 2020 | Academics, Accountability, children and politics, Conscious Parenting, democracy, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Skills, Feelings, Independence, Parenting, Uncategorized
Is emotional intelligence lacking in college students? The behaviors evidenced on college campuses in the past two weeks say they are! Indeed, the lack of understanding and concern for others well-being is obvious. Not only are these IQ smart young people not...
by Karen Stone | Aug 17, 2020 | Academics, change, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, emotional intelligence activities, emotional intelligence resources, emotions, EQ Information, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Feelings, mindfulness, Parenting, Safety, Schools, Uncategorized
Activities for teaching children emotional intelligence skills continues with integrating using feelings and emotions into your every day life and learning. Surely, I can feel the anxiety and the frustration at thinking that there is another thing to accomplish. ...
by Karen Stone | Aug 7, 2020 | Conscious Parenting, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, EQ Skills, Feelings, Uncategorized
Teaching children emotional intelligence is an ongoing process integrated into your everyday activities. To begin this process first Initiate family meetings to give your children a heads up on what you are doing and why. Set up a specific day and time that is easy...
