Parenting is not a walk in the park. It comes with many challenges and struggles. We lose our patience and sometimes we embitter our children in the process. Yet they are our most valuable possession and our greatest asset. Unfortunately, how we parent is most likely...
Just because you’re talking to your spouse (and kids) doesn’t necessarily mean that you are communicating. Active listening is also needed for true dialogue to happen. Active listening is more than the ear capturing sound waves from the speaker's mouth. It is to...
Have you ever prayed to be more joyful, patient and understanding or bond better with your child but received it in a situation called sickness? This happened to me two weeks ago, during Holy Week, before Gummy and I set out for our first, just-us-two vacation Though...
The adage goes that familiarity breeds contempt. When the husband finds the wife as comfortable as an old shoe, chances are that’s how he will treat her: like an old shoe! Why? I suspect husbands (being one myself) subconsciously think this way, “Well, I have her....
Who's more euphoric when a child does something exceptional? His parents? Or his grandparents? Yes, this sense of jumping for joy and shouting alleluia, plus the urge to show these feats off. This lola is guilty as charged. Believe me, it takes a lot of self-control...
We all want to be successful in life, don’t we? In order to do so, we must set goals to achieve that—goals that determine the means to realize our definition of success. However, people have varied definitions and measurements of success. And we want to pursue the...
I feel like I could have written this book by Ryan O'Quinn, Marriage Rules, The Hilarious Handbook for Surviving Marriage. Really. I feel like he's describing my marriage. 😎 Like many, if not all, marriages, nothing is perfect. Ryan points out many of these...
By Bettinna Carlos Every mother is the woman she is because of her children. I am who I am because of my child. As my daughter turns seven, allow me to share with you a poem I wrote about being a mother when she was just two months old on May 19, 2011. Kapag Nanay ka...
My Bible readings lately have been on the 10 Commandments God gave to Moses before the Israelites entered the Promised Land. God gave this to prepare His people in all the forms they may be tempted to be swayed from their belief. I did the same two years ago with...
In my previous columns, I shared how Dr. Ruth Chang taught me how to: keep my daughter close and win her heart by giving her the right kind and amount of praise; accept her individuality and support her interests; respect her and acknowledge her feelings despite her...