Leverage Your Children's Future with Emotional Intelligence

Published: Dec. 18, 2018, 5 p.m.

b'Karen Stone, CEO of SoftStone Productions helps children to become emotional intelligency with her 45 yrs experience in education, preschool-college. A BA in Special Ed/MA in Learning Disabilities.\\xa0She is also a parent of a child with significant disabilities. Recently, she became certified as an EQ practitioner through Six Seconds.\\xa0\\n\\nShe has spent the last 30 years being a workshop leader and keynote speaker and has published children\\u2019s Emotional Intelligence programs (Pre-school-HS) that are research-based and have been piloted. Her EQforChildren.com website has been designed to provide, at no cost, helpful activities that are engaging and developmentally appropriate to all early childhood parents and caregivers so they can implement the \\u201cVoices of CJ\\u201d with fun and ease.\\n\\nHer focus is now totally early childhood as brain research now stipulates that the emotional brain is developing the fastest between birth and six with EQ skills being critical for social and emotional learning as they are not innate.\\xa0\\n\\nKaren published her story and life\\u2019s purpose in 2017 entitled, \\u201cIs Your Child\\u2019s World Emotionally Safe?\\u201d Book and Kindle version is available on Amazon. Her most exciting accomplishment in 2018 has been the creation of her YouTube channel, \\u201cChildren Become EQ Smart with CJ.\\u201d Her fun and engaging characters teach Daniel Goleman\\u2019s 7 attributes of emotional intelligence with the animated, \\u201cVoices of CJ.\\u201d\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nKaren\\u2019s passion and dream of CJ, her life\\u2019s work and her professional and personal commitment to people with intellectual disabilities have now merged together. Recognizing the vocational abilities of people with disabilities and creating emotionally safe environments for children in homes and schools creates the opportunity for them all to reach their unique potential.'