SoftStone and the CJ Parenting Package has won its second National Award. Creative Child Magazine has awarded the CJ Parenting Package and program their 2017 Product of the Year Award and its 2017 Preferred Choice Award for Plush Toys. We are grateful and delighted that recognition for teaching children Emotional Intelligence is now being given and promoted by mothers and professionals. CJ and the Voices of CJ Program has evolved over the last 20 years waiting for this important concept to be incorporated in the early brain development of young children. SoftStone is making its debut as an awarding winning product this June at the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association at the Philadelphia Convention Center, in July at the Atlanta Gift and Toy Show and in August at NY NOw at the Javitts Center.
Karen Stone, President of SoftStone, Inc., reflects back over 30 years to when her commitment to children’s emotional well-being became her life’s mission. “I began this dream before computers and social media and wondered why it was always on the brink of success and yet, I just couldn’t make it happen. Timing is everything and now I understand the wisdom of its persistence inside me and the wisdom of the universe holding it in abeyance till it could be valued and accepted. The time is now!”