by Kristi Pikiewicz | Feb 26, 2020 | Education/Parenting, Social-Emotional Learning
As part of my job as an educational psychologist at a K-8 school with a mission for gifted education, I run our social-emotional learning curriculum. What this means in practice is that I get to help kindergartners sort through what it means to be a friend and how to...
by Rosemary Lokhorst | Feb 19, 2020 | Inspiration
Rosy and her dad in Greece, 1983 I got “the call” late at night. Or early morning, depending how you look at it. It was me they called because I was the only one in the phone book. Of course, I was also the only one who would answer in the middle of the night, since I...
by Sara Jane Adkins | Feb 12, 2020 | Inspiration, Mental Health, Self Help
“She will be okay,” the doctor whispered to my mother as he turned away from my hospital bed and exited the sterile room. My mother walked toward me and carefully pulled the warm, grey hospital blankets over my tiny, still body. When I was 17, I developed an eating...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Feb 5, 2020 | Education/Parenting, Social-Emotional Learning
The only way to keep from failing is to not try. But it’s so much easier to stay safe in your bubble of known activities, experiences, and routines! Trying new things, trying HARD things, and truly attempting to do your best exposes you to the possibility of...
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