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How did you introduce Christmas to your kids?

“I introduced Christmas to my kids by watching Christmas movies with them, showing them who Santa Claus is, putting up Christmas décor. I ask them to help every time we put up the Christmas tree. I make sure it’s fun for them, I let them pick their favorite Christmas balls and let them hang anything they want on the tree. We have Christmas stockings, too, because they really believe in Santa Claus. We enjoy Noche Buena then open gifts and in the morning kailangan may laman na ang mga stockings, ha ha!” —Aubrey Miles

December 21, 2011

Super mom overcomes multiple challenges

All they had for Christmas Eve was a can of corned beef. An entrepreneur, educator and a single mother of two, Esperanza Uy had the world on her shoulders for 16 years. Juggling her role as father and mother to her daughters Kimberly and Michelle, Esperanza also has to look after her business.

December 21, 2011

How to build your children’s memories of Christmas

Guess what! The COD Christmas display is still around! Okay, maybe you knew that already, but I had no idea! Imagine my surprise when I received a call last Saturday night as the kids and I were on our way home. But I am getting ahead of myself.

December 13, 2011

Challenges of foster parenting

No, no, no… he’s not my adopted child,” highly driven businesswoman Marilyn “Mallie” del Bianco was quick to say to correct her socialite friends who were obviously intrigued by the new 7-year-old olive-skinned boy with her. “This is Joshua, my foster child,” she announced.
“Oh, but fostering is not adopting,” Del Bianco clarified.

December 6, 2011

The kids speak up

“My parents aren’t on Facebook and it’s better that way. I’m free.” —Michelle, 16

December 6, 2011

Easy, inexpensive ways to brighten up your kids’ Christmas

Among the best memories I have of Christmas was the COD Christmas display show that used to be staged every year in front of their department store in Cubao. I remember excitedly looking forward to my cousins’ arrival from La Union because my mom always used to take us as one happy bunch.

December 6, 2011

Think well before you give this Christmas

Making Christmas lists can be such a daunting task, as they just seem to grow longer every year.

December 6, 2011

Raising your kids in the time of Facebook

‘Facebook has changed our social DNA,” Time magazine declared. And we can’t deny it. Mark Zuckerberg’s social-networking site has changed the world in a lot of ways—the way people communicate, the way they stay in touch with friends, what they choose to share and keep to themselves. We wondered—has it changed the way people raise their kids, too?

December 6, 2011

Just being kind can make you a hero

Perhaps already weaned from Batman, Spider Man, the X-Men, Astro Boy and other comic superheroes, some of today’s youth are casting about for real, flesh-and-blood heroes who are not imbued with superhuman powers.

November 30, 2011

It’s the year of the Dragon–should you have a baby?

The Chinese New Year is not for another three months or so, but the way people are talking about it (at least those I have been in contact with in the recent weeks), you would think it was just around the corner! In case you didn’t know, we are entering the year of the Water Dragon this Jan. 23, 2012.

November 30, 2011