Learn to Study with your Child

School days once again and back to study with our kids after school. Talking with our children about their schoolwork, look at your children’s notebooks or workbooks and returned assignments and read the teachers comments so you’ll know the areas that needs improvement.

Let our children practice independence gradually by letting her do her own work. Never do your child homework for her/him. This may seem to make life easier to both of you, but the only ting it does is foster over dependence. They will always rely on you if that happens. They won’t learn.

What teachers send home is generally work that your child is capable of doing and has already done in his/her classroom. When working with your child, begin with the end in mind, our goal for them which is to nurture critical thinking skills.

Help our child study by providing suggestions on how best to arrive at an answer. Have her review the materials and then quiz them in a fun way. And then we’ll go over their answers together so that we can easily give feedback or know what exactly they don’t understand fully. But we make it fun so that no pressure. Both parents not just one should invest time in working closely with their children.

Summer Time Fun with Direct TV

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Summer time once again and my children are free from going to school everyday. They have enough time playing in the house and watching their favorite channels on Direct TV. Because during summer time Direct TV offers over more than 265 programming channels, and the good thing is they have an exclusive programming with NASCAR and we don’t have to connect to any cable company, for Direct TV is the number one satellite entertainment service provider and offers a 100% digital programming. All of the movie channels that we could possibly need are now in the Direct TV.

My children are very happy watching television for most of their time they can choose plenty of movie channels that they need to watch summer time fun with Direct TV really enjoy my kids and instead of playing outside the house they devote their time in watching television and I am happy that they are far from any road accident.

Vacation is Gone

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Vacation is Gone

Our long vacation is gone,
For the month of June has come;
And the school days will also come;
A place of play and fantastic fun;

Friends will meet friends a new,
For school days will soon begin;
To learn Math, English and Filipino,
In teacher’s fold, motherly caring.

We also learn Science and Health
And HELE, HeKASi and Mape;
The teacher’s, again and again will say,
The learning is yours when you study.

When summer vacation is gone,
School bells will be ringing again;
To school, friends will go one by one,
For there, where friendship and fun begin

A Dream Vacation with my Husband

sidebar of Estancia Vallarta

When summer is still in the air, there’s nothing like a sake-fueled day of ocean viewing to mark this very special occasion in our life with my very dear husband. Celebrating our wedding anniversary is a memorable one for we don’t celebrate yearly due to my partner’s chosen career, he is a seaman and always on board. That’s why when he is on vacation we grab an opportunity to celebrate together especially in celebrating our wedding anniversary.

Good that my husband is a seaman and he already traveled around the world, he heard about a beautiful place in Mexico that is a perfect place to go to celebrate with our loved ones. A place in Estancia Vallarta a very nice place and living in this place is a problem free for we can see the beauty which everyone’s aiming to live in.

Having a short vacation in  is really a great one, but staying is this very nice place is a very lucky one. My husband and I enjoyed the amenities that they offered with a relaxing spa, a nice gym to make my body physically fit always even in my vacation time, having a dinner with my husband over looking the bay view and the most unforgettable is lying in my husbands arm while lying in the white sand beach.

The view of Estancia Vallarta across the bay at night sparkles like any other city. The only difference is it shines brighter than most places and well into the night, hoping to come back soon together with my kids. Estancia Vallarta is a perfect place to stay with the whole family.

Boracay is a place to go

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Lately last week I and my friend went back to a very beautiful place here in the Philippines the place in Boracay, one of the most visited places to go especially during summer season and place to go when we want our selves a relaxation from a very busy hard work in the office or in our house hold chores, a place to refresh all our worries in life, and a place to celebrate the special occasions in our life.

From the moment my friend and I visited this place a few years ago, my friend dreamed of getting married in this paradise island. Little did I know there were so many lovers who shared the same romantic sentiment? By the time my friend was engage last year, Boracay was fast becoming a favorite alternative wedding venue.

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And why not, a wedding in Boracay meant a church under the sky and a ballroom carpeted with the finest sand. Like any other destination wedding, the wedding party is on vacation as one big, happy group. This gives everyone more opportunity to spend time with the entire guest and for everybody to get to know each other. There would be no quick rounds of greetings at the reception but rounds of beer shared while hanging out at the beach.

We really enjoyed the beautiful beach in Boracay a romantic place to go with our love ones and I told you my experience in going to Boracay is a priceless and a place that I will never forget, Boracay is the place to go.

a place to relax

Best of all, getting married in Boracay means we are already in a romantic honeymoon spot. The morning after the wedding, my friend and his husband relaxed as husband and wife on one of the beaches on the planet. I am very happy for my friend for wedding in the beach is a dream come true for her.

Kiddy Party

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It’s a sunny day yesterday when I was invited by a friend to join a kiddy party; it’s the birthday of her youngest daughter. It was an exciting one for I brought my 2 kids with me and they all enjoyed the party. When we arrived in their house there are a lot of cars parking on the street

near there house, I thought it was only their neighbors car parking in front of their houses, but when we are already inside the lobby of the house I’ve noticed that there are a lot of visitors inside, singing, the kids were dancing at the same time they are playing with the invited clown. Every body is enjoying the kiddy party.

My friend saw us that we are already on the venue. Hello Vian, I’ve been waiting for you please come and join the party where are the kids, my friend asks. Oh! They are already in the party and in fact they are already enjoying the presence of the clown, for they love kiddy party if there is a clown, for they enjoyed so much. We went to the buffet table and a lot of foods to eat. Ohs! I’m on diet I talk to myself, but the foods are convincing so I decided to get some foods and dine with my friends.

It was a get together party also for the mommy’s for more than a month that we did not meet each other no more classes, its summer vacation and we are all busy with everyday chores and others are taking their vacations in their different provinces. Good that the party falls also in mother’s day so it was a multi party celebration for the kids and for the mommy’s. We really enjoyed the kiddy party and the mommy’s party as well.

In the house in our everyday life, my kids are always asking what to do during there birthday, party, where to celebrate and the invited visitors. So I really need to have a celebration during there day, because it is an awaited day of there lives and celebrated once a year.

Even we are out of budget we need to reserved budget for the especial day of our beloved children and have a kiddy party that they are aiming for.

Music is a Good Promotion for Children

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Music is a good promotion for children because it is a meaningful medium of expressing their ideas, feelings, dreams aspirations and values. Exposing our children to a wide variety of music ranging from folksy to the contemporary top tunes, from the classical to the favorite songs of yesterday, we not only impart knowledge towards our children but we also helps develops their skills and values which makes music truly enhance them.

guitar

Summer season here in the Philippines is a free time to the kids, so I decided to enrolled them in a musical class like playing guitar and piano, because I do believe that learning music among my children especially on instrumental playing promotes them a mental development, concentration and patience. It also helps them develops there self-confidence, that’s why music is a good promotion for children.

The experiences and the learning’s they have learned today will make them a difference in their lives, in the lives of their parents like me. The folk songs, love songs as well as religious songs that my children learned and perform in the review, drill lesson, proper enrichment activities create an awareness of their beliefs, traits and the way of life as a children. Greater understanding, love and appreciation towards music are a good thing also that they learned during their summer class.

Now in the house that their summer classes is almost done and they learned many strokes and can play now the piano most of the time they are playing different kinds of music that can catch my attention and I told to myself that I was not wrong to choose a summer class about music to my children for I really know that music is a good promotion for children.

Maripipi Island Paradise of no Return

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Maripipi island. This is my home island,   a peaceful place to go, it is located in a small island in the Philippines and located in the eastern Visayas region, Maripipi  island is located a few kilometers north from the island of Leyte. And our native languages are Waray-waray and visaya. I really missed my home place. Maripipi island paradise.

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A view of Maripipi from a distant island watching the sun set.

a paradise place

A paradise place to go, if you want to relax your mind, think it over just visit my place.

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The undiscovered WOW Philippines just a minute island hopping from Maripipi, what a very nice white sand beach.

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We can visit sambawan beach buy boat. Here we can enjoy the beauty of the world with a peaceful place to relax.

napo beach

This is Napo Beach where you can take a rest with the whole family and love to swim on the pool just beside the sea.

from-mountain-view

Taken from a mountain view, my place is rich in a coconut product and this is where we survive our living, some are involve into a largely fishing activity that we are very lucky we can eat the very fresh fish because our house is just a step by the seashore.

my kids; bay view

These are my children during our vacation in my hometown, we really enjoy the sea, just take a look with the color of my kids they are already getting black cause of a sun burn, for everyday going to the sea and take a bath. Every one loves to dive in our very tempting calm,  clean and a very nice beach. So what are you waiting for visit my place the Maripipi island paradise of no return. Why no return? Because if you visit my place you will forgot to return in your place where you came from just  because it is a dream come true.

Healthy Eating with Pleasure

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Healthy eating with pleasure is a nice thing to do in our life. What we eat has considerable impact on our physical well-being. Healthy eating with pleasure with good nutrition promotes good health. But it depends on the food that we eat for food also affects how we feel.

There is a complication between our meals moods. Many foods have biologically active compounds that can work us up or clamp us down. The caffeine in coffee is a good enhancer. There are also foods that makes as happy simply because they taste us feel good rolling around in our mouths, such as potatoes or a buttery roll and are also rich in carbohydrates.

But there are also foods that is amazing one that both combine of these factors. They contain chemical substances that stimulate the nervous system, and they send pleasure signals to the brain that trigger a natural kind of “high”. These are the foods with real pharmacological firepower.

eating-chocolates

For instance, my son loves to eat chocolates, for their father often come and goes in different countries, and no doubt it is everybody’s favorite especially the kids, and chocolates is frequently a desired food, Its psychoactive chemicals, such as caffeine that can stimulate the central nervous system.

Certain combination of foods can also affect our mood. For example, drinking a cup of coffee has been shown to have a beneficial effect on mental alertness. But if the cup of coffee is served with a spoonful of sugar, there is an added boost-one thinking skills may actually improve.

How to become a Real Friend

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Everyone wants a friend, a friend whom we can depend on in times of sorrows and pains, a friend who understands our feelings, characteristics attitudes and behavior without any effort to destroy us but to lead us to the right path of life.

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Tips to help you turn yourself into a real friendship

1. Focus on what you can give to a friend, not what you can get out of a friendship. Friendship means give and take. Never use a friend just to satisfy your needs and leave him/her when you don’t need him/her anymore.

2. Disagreement shouldn’t destroy friendship. Having different opinion to discuss with is natural and healthy but if this thing will lead to you to get mad at one another, stops it.

3. If you see your friend making mistakes, point them out tactfully to her. Be careful in correcting your friend’s mistakes. Don’t force her to change right away. You must remember it takes a lot of patience to change your friend’s attitudes and behavior.

4. Encourage your friend. Don’t put her/him down when you learn that she is achieving something; instead encourage or inspire her to work harder and to be happy for what she has achieved.

5. Be there for both the good and bad times. If you heard that your friend got promoted to any position, you celebrate it, and if you heard that your friend has a problem, be there to support and console her. Most of the times, what a friend really needs is a sympathetic ear, someone who will understand his feelings.

6. Be willing to forgive. If someone gets a mistake, we must know how to forgive.

7. Learn to accept personal differences with your friend. We must learn to accept our friend for what she is and try to help her gradually.

8. Never try to control your friend. Learn to accept the truth that your friend has other friend aside from you.

Friends may come and go, it rewards us with growth and leaves in us a reminder of life in pain or happiness and it educates us to select the best of friends we want to.