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59Unsolicited advice for newlyweds
TODAY -- 08-08-08 -- my friends Fil and Gina are getting married at a Cebu resort and I am supposed to stand as a sponsor. Work in Manila keeps me from joining them on this joyous occasion, however, so I am...
1 comment72How to help children learn -- and love learning!
HOW CAN WE help our children learn -- and love learning? The first thing we can do is to talk to our children. Engage them in conversation. Elicit their opinions. Listen to them. Answer their questions. I...
3 comments68Learning with the whole brain
IF YOU LOOK at the human brain from a horizontal perspective, you will see that the cortex consists of two distinct halves -- the cerebral hemispheres. They contain two sets of cortical lobes which gradually...
3 comments547 helpful things to know about learning
1. Human beings are born with the ability to learn --but this takes place with experience. A baby -- sooner or later -- will talk, and walk, smile and cry. It will cry because it is hungry, sleepy, or in...
4 comments69How to Raise an Independent Child - Part 4
Balancing Act: Holding On and Letting Go. The final balancing act we do as parents is between holding on and letting go. Actually, this is the balancing act that we do all throughout our parenting years. ...
1 comment77How to Raise an Independent Child - Part 3
Balancing Act: Granting Autonomy and Imposing Discipline You can discipline a child without love but you cannot love a child without disciplining him. Disciplining is one way of saying, “I love you...
0 comments71How to Raise an Independent Child - Part 2
Balancing Act: Concern and Indulgence As parents, we can go to extremes – neglecting our children one time and paying obsessive attention to them the next, perhaps to compensate for the neglect. ...
0 comments77How to Raise an Independent Child – Part 1
OUR GOAL as parents is to raise independent, responsible and resourceful adults and we measure our success by how much we are no longer needed when our children turn 21. In other words, to be successful as...
1 comment68A Coming-of-Age Story
“NO, NO, Alessandro. God does not want you to do this. If you do this, you will go to hell.” This is Sister Marie Claire’s nth recount of how St. Maria Goretti -- a girl my age --fends off...
2 comments56'Mars' and 'Venus': how their minds work
IN MY COLLEGE DAYS, circa mid-1960s, I had the reputation of being a ‘crammer’. I was notorious for writing up term papers ‘the night before’. I had one teacher who was bothered by this quirk and...
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