Parenting

My rock star son

I would much prefer that he pursued law. He was a debater in college. Political Science and Psychology were his major fields. But alas, music has always been in his heart.
His band, Blazing Bulalakaws was featured on Studio 23 this morning. They played around five tunes throughout the program, filling the lull in between breaks. […]

To infinity and beyond…!

“Baby… how much do you love me?” I used to ask my daughter when she was about four years old.
In answer, she would get up, raise her right arm, form a fist with her tiny hand, and shout out: “I love you, Mama - TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!”
Oh, the sweet memories. I smiled as I […]

Mama’s boy

I remember when my first born son was in high school, he would be very upset every time his dad and I dropped by to pick him up after school, or - whenever I made unannounced visits to talk to his teachers or the principal to see how he was doing in his studies. I […]

Jollibee scandal

I am fuming!
This is the reason why….

Raising children with love

I don’t claim to be an authority in Child Psychology. The only background in Pyschology that I can boast of is my three units in General Psychology in college.
As I was raising my growing children years before, (my two sons now in their 20s and daughter in her teens), I realized that having background in […]

Rearing, loving a child

I am not usually the prying type of neighbor. I maintain friendly relations with my neighbors, but not to the point where I would go “neighboring” and make “chika”. I want to leave them to their privacy in the same way that I too, want them to leave me in mine.
Much as I want to […]

What to do…what to do

I woke up today at 5:00 a.m., jolted by the thought of my daughter’s problematic investigatory project in Science.
The whole afternoon last Sunday, she was fumbling with her experiment together with Kim, her groupmate. Too bad, the leader of her group, Pauline, is sick with dengue and is recovering at the hospital. Worse thing is […]

Photography

Since we are in the media industry, a camera has always been a must have for me and my husband. And in the process of this job of capturing people and events, we got hooked to photography.
As we reared two boys and one girl, our favorite subjects naturally geared towards them. My husband tried […]

Bones get more brittle with age

This morning, I received a text message from my sister saying some bad news that my mother had a bad fall. She fell on her back and it was quite bad she couldn’t stand due to the pain in her waist and hips.
The accident happened when she went to my brother’s house, which is right […]

Diaper-less tots

I was watching this feature on Fox Channel yesterday about the possibility of having kids going diaper-less at an earlier age.
The idea is to potty-train the babies so that they consumes less diapers, or none at all.
What caught my attention were the varied reactions of the mommies interviewed - as most of them were either skeptical or not […]