by Kristi Pikiewicz | Mar 17, 2021 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health, Social-Emotional Learning
I am a competitive person. At times, I can call on this competitiveness for motivation, but in the past it’s also gotten in the way of friendships and doing my best. Not by design but perhaps also not surprisingly, I am now raising a highly competitive daughter. I...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Feb 3, 2021 | Education/Parenting, Inspiration
Kestrel doing what she loves. Me? I’m trying to recenter. Last weekend my daughter, Kestrel, and I went to a rock climbing gym together for the first time since COVID began. How did it go? Read on… Where’s my daughter Kestrel? … Did that woman just...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Dec 23, 2020 | Education/Parenting
I thought… I thought I understood how my 12 year old daughter was experiencing the limitations we are all experiencing due to COVID. I thought I was keeping enough of her life the same so the impact felt minimal and manageable. I thought I was keeping my own anxiety...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Dec 2, 2020 | Education/Parenting
I’m so tired of EVERYTHING! My COVID fatigue seriously set in a few weekends ago. I’m tired but can’t sleep; I’m grumpy but don’t want anyone to help me; and all I want to do is listen to Alanis Morissette at max volume while I stare at the Dark Side of the Moon...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Nov 4, 2020 | Education/Parenting, Social-Emotional Learning
Before we were allowed to take our son, Leif, home from the hospital where we lived in Bozeman, MT, hospital staff had us watch the “Happiest Baby On The Block” video. True to the instructions, that first week we swaddled, shushed, and swung Leif for hours, but we...
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