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Children Don’t Come with a Manual

Last Friday evening, S and I attended the first (of ten, which he hopefully agrees to attend to the end with me!) classes of “First Steps”, a parenting course offered by EduChild Foundation Inc.
The format that they use is the Case Method. The participants are divided into group and each group discusses the case. Though [...]

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I’ll Do Better Tomorrow, I Promise!

A friend sent me an email yesterday. In it, she forwarded a rhyme (I dunno, I feel that calling this a “poem” isn’t right…it’s a bit grating, as she said) .
I’ve been having problems lately with P…perhaps I’ve been more tired than usual, perhaps both the boys have been more clingy, perhaps my hormones are [...]

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Two-Parent System

Now I know why God made a two-parent system.
We had a full day today. Mostly spent meeting with S’s cousins, the earlier part at their office, the latter part in Akiga Podium (so we could eat lunch).
I took P with me to Akiga so he could have some time out of the house as [...]

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I hate K

P’s been a little bit more KSP (kulang sa pansin, wanting in attention) lately. And all of us agree that the cause is K.
I noticed that both of them have become more clingy…hence the “awol” status from blogging for quite a while (I couldn’t help the LTO blog though…I was so pissed at them!)…it [...]

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Sandbox

14 April 2003
Sand is known as a material that one can be very creative with. Thus, this is considered as one of the best “toys” by early educators.
For a while now, I have been wanting to get P a sandbox. His generous aunts (my sisters) had gotten him one! It was delivered [...]

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