Are you a ‘Disneyland Dad’?
When I was a kid, my classmates would tell stories about their adventures during summer vacations spent with their respective families.
When I was a kid, my classmates would tell stories about their adventures during summer vacations spent with their respective families.
First, let me say that we’re a normal family. My wife Karen and I are employed and work nine to 10 hours a day. We have three children; my eldest, Sabine, is an 11-year-old girl, followed by two boys, Matteo, 8, and Basti, 6.
Paquito “Pen” Roque, a bachelor, considers himself the father of 16 children.
Jing Monis, the A-Listers’ style icon of hair and makeup, was an 18-year-old marketing major doing events promotion on the side when he sired a boy.
Lawyer and ex-academician Adel Tamano wants families with special children to spur a change in society’s attitudes so that greater nurturing and protection are given these children, and weaken the stigma that comes with having them.
Javier Berenguer-Testa smiled as he admitted he is the kunsintidor while wife Lexi (née Schultz) is the disciplinarian in raising their two daughters, ages 8 and 3.
One of my father’s traits that I really admire is his passion for excellence. As a singer-songwriter and performer, he won’t stop till he gets everything perfectly right. It’s inspiring that there’s someone like him in the music industry, which tends to suffer from mediocrity nowadays.—Kiana Valenciano, daughter of pop star Gary Valenciano
The first thing Jeroen Van Straten noticed about his newly arrived foster child was how the boy, then barely 2 years old, would pick up rice grains that dropped out of his plate and pop these into his mouth while at the dinner table.
In the prayer room of our formation center in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, is a crucifix with Christ being raised up by the Father and the Holy Spirit.
In my sixth year as a newspaperman I tried to cross over to the “toy shop” of journalism. The analogy is owed to Jimmy Cannon, a sportswriter who took both sports and writing so seriously and wrote so well (indeed, before Red Smith there was him) he could only have intended it sarcastically—to get back at the disparagers of his craft.
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