Hi, I’m Violet! I came to Fika to step back, pause, write, and make sense of it all. I came here to write out my moments of mess and magic and mold them into crumbs of sanity to share with you. I came here to read.
Recent posts
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Do You Feel Your Personality Slipping Away Into The Parenting Abyss?
You don’t have to do this! Parenting niches of the internet are getting filled up with stories of people abandoning their old life when they step into the parenthood, and I came here to say that I respectfully disagree with that notion. You don’t have to do this. Parenting is 50% of how the child is and 50% of what the parents make of it. I firmly believe that mental health of many mothers suffer…
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More Than A Year of Screenless Sundays in a Family of Five
At the start of January 2025, it was eerily quiet in my home. It was very strange because in a family with three kids, things should not be this quiet when everyone is home. I stepped away from my work computer, headphones still on, and walked around my place to check on my offspring. Three faces lit by the blue light, never even lifting their eyes from the screens to acknowledge my presence. That…
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Introducing the Crumbs of Sanity
Hi, I’m Violet! I came to Fika to step back, pause, write, and make sense of it all. I came here to write out my moments of mess and magic and mold them into crumbs of sanity to share with you. I came here to read. What I do I read a lot. Reading is knowledge and knowledge is power. My then-5-year-old daughter learned this when she read an advert for Christmas shopping while sitting on a toilet at…
