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Revisiting Your Baby Can Read: A My Mommyology Review
If you took a peek at some of my earlier posts, you would have seen that we were one of the earlier adopters of the Your Baby Can Read (YBCR) program. I actually posted a video of Sam reading words...
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The Benefits of an Older Sibling
Jamie is 19.5 months and it still amazes me as to how much she already “knows”. I’ve gotten a lot of comments lately from teachers and other adults, some who have just met her for the first time, as...
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The Halloween Hangover
Halloween may just be Sam’s most favorite occasion. I just realized how much she loves to play dress-up lately and Halloween gives her the perfect excuse to do it (and she can get treats we wouldn’t...
View ArticleLearning to Read and Speak Filipino
Summer is fast approaching and I’ve been thinking of activities to keep the girls preoccupied for the majority of it. While a part of me feels that it would be nice to have them home for a change, I...
View ArticleWhy We Let Kids Be Kids
*** Trivia: The Filipino term “sige” takes its origins from the Spanish word seguir, which means “to follow.” The Filipino phrase “Sige Lang” (pronounced “cee-gue lāng”) is loosely used to mean, “go...
View ArticleDo You Trust Me?
It’s been ten months since our move back to Manila, but I still think about our time in Chapel Hill a lot. Everything still seems so fresh and vivid and clear. I will forever be eternally grateful...
View ArticleDecoding My Boo
We’ve been watching our DVD of Monsters Inc lately, and more and more I realize Sam is right. Boo does remind us of Jamie. More than the physical looks, the skip-run type of forward movement and the...
View ArticleThe Pleasant Poop Experince: Potty Training Round Two
I’ve literally been dragging my feet around this but I figure that it’s time. Again. To potty train! I think I’m still traumatized from my experience with Sam, even though it’s already been over 2.5...
View ArticleLearning to Just “Be”
I’m in a panic. When I think about the amount of time I get to spend with the girls nowadays, I feel bad (guilty maybe?) that it’s a lot less than the time I spent with them while we lived … Continue...
View ArticleCostumes-Smoshtumes and Let’s Pretend Week
Oh October. It really puts my creativity (or lack thereof) to the test. Who ever thought Halloween could take so much out of you? I remember growing up it was just one costume per year. And my mom...
View ArticleFive Years of Motherhood
Last night we took the girls to watch Disney’s new animation release, Frozen. It was Sam’s request — as part of her “I just turned 5″ endless celebration. So even if it was a school night, we decided...
View ArticleRaising Children with Strong Values and Character
I picked up Sam from school yesterday and we had our usual conversation in the car about how her day went. It was all pretty normal, until Sam said, “Mom, my classmate got sent to the time out chair...
View ArticleAdventures with Jamie
Three weeks into the time from when we first moved, I happily posted this Facebook status: Pretty much, it sums up the reason why we moved in the first place, and is the best validation. Jamie’s...
View ArticleRaising Readers
It’s in all our flyers, memos, homework folders and parenting discussions. Teaching a child to read is important. Make them love reading? All the more. Admittedly I took this notice for granted....
View ArticleThe “Illusion” of a Choice
I don’t exactly remember how or where or when I learned this; but I was told that a key parenting strategy in minimizing conflict and full-blown tantrums, was to give the kids a choice. Granted, we...
View ArticleMy Mommyology Discovers: Storymakery
During a trip to the mall last fall, I saw an area boarded up with this logo on it: As its name implies, Storymakery is a children’s creative writing and publishing shop, located in Spectrum Mall in...
View ArticleWhy We Love Lego: Let Me Count the Ways
My kids have too many toys. At least that’s how I feel when I walk around the house everyday trying to tidy it up. I should say we are lucky — they are lucky — to be showered with so … Continue reading →
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