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How To Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children | Lael Stone | TEDxDocklands





How did your parents respond to you as a child when you were upset?
Can you see the impact of their imprints in your life as an adult?
What is the magic ingredient when raising an emotionally intelligent child?

This talk explores all these questions along with how the lack of emotional literacy in our culture has significant power when it comes to the way we parent. It explores how compassion, empathy and mindfulness have a place in raising children – as well as in our education system. If connection, listening, and heart were at the center of every relationship, how different could our world be?

Working with thousands of families for over 16 years as an educator and counselor, Lael has seen the impact that trauma and disconnection have on a family. As an Aware Parenting Instructor, she facilitates workshops and support groups that empower parents to create connections and stronger relationships with their children. She is also the co-creator and Director of Woodline Primary School which is due to open in 2021 – a school based on emotional wellbeing and connection, set on a magnificent 20-acre farm in the Geelong hinterland in Victoria, Australia.

Lael co-hosts The Aware Parenting Podcast, is a regular contributor to several online publications and is a sought-after public speaker who talks candidly about her experiences and her great passion; helping to create wellness in families through connection and communication.

You can find Lael at laelstone.com.au and her school at woodlineprimary.com.au Lael is a birth, parenting and sexuality educator who has worked with thousands of families over 15 years witnessing what lack of connection and attachment can do to relationships and sense of worth. She works one on one with families, runs workshops on birth, parenting and talking to kids about sex and also run pleasure-based sex ed in secondary schools for teens. Lael is currently putting all her knowledge and learning into practice as she builds an innovative new primary school in Geelong. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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22 thoughts on “How To Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children | Lael Stone | TEDxDocklands”

  4. @mikefranco436

    If we have really started driving EQ, and the rates of mental health and anxiety are increasing – then does that suggest that the old way of doing things has caused this problem ? Or instead perhaps, the new way of doing things has ? Are we subconsciously teaching children to be anxious but being so accomodating and accepting ?

    They are so used to being accepted and not helping with their problems – that they are not equipped to handle the real world (or in this day and age the digital world) ?

    Challenging the theory constructively, not pushing back against it.

  6. @CandyLemon36

    I'm invigorated by the transformative power of this material. A book with like content inspired meaningful changes in my life. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

  19. @formosan80

    This is how my spouse and I raised our daughters. It worked really well when they were young. They excelled with friends and each other. It stopped working when they got older. They learned to manipulate our compassion to get what they wanted and to avoid their responsibilities. My oldest refused to get up in the morning and go to school. No amount of compassion or listening made her change her mind.

  21. @sethcat6232

    She gave two extremes. Partaking in emotions only, and then the opposite, overreacting out of anger or ignorance. Why not offer care and empathy, then follow it with encouragement and a positive solution… aka logic.

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