Signs of Negative Stage Parenting
A stage mother or stage parent these days in a Philippine setting is often portrayed as over acting mom, exaggerated or obsessed with her child’s career or status. How about stage fathers? Hello, nice to meet you? Not. I heard a story about 2 foreigners living here in PH and their daughters are attending the…
What to do with Annoying Tricycle Drivers
I learned a lot from tricycle drivers here in City of San Fernando. In my trip to pick up my kids from school, I was cut by a private tricycle and the driver and passenger were laughing about their action, they were looking back to provoke me. I’m annoyed and heart beats faster than normal.…
How to Enrich Generational Gap
We visited our family house few hours ago, ate lunch and a nice talk about our family plans for the year, random topics and some updates. I got interested with an update about a teenager bullied and she’s no longer active in school. I recalled a topic I once shared to some friends and up…
Why Support Group is Essential
Strong people need to build a durable support that originate in family, friends or sometimes even strangers. In a relationship, if you are not at peace with your partner, the best moral support you can get will be from trusted friends and of course your immediate family. Your wife or husband or partner can be…
Sweet Disturbance
Early morning, I had my task list ready and to do list. Suddenly, changes in my schedule and arranging task list forced me to adjust. I disturbed myself and wasn’t able to focus more. The result? Catching up and regaining my concentration to do what needs to be finished. Working at home is interesting. Disturbance…
Time for Extra Activities
Make time for extra activities any stretch of the day. Dedicate some extra hours for your hobby, extra-curricular activities, volunteer work or random tasks. An hour or 2 will be used to refuel your soul from the stress and don’t deprive yourself from it. Setting up some time for extra activities will benefit your body,…
Simple Perks of Being Kind to Vendors
I wrote about respect from the last post and this time I’m going to share about kindness. Being kind is showing compassion and sincerity. Being kind is one key ingredient in living a positive life. Kindness is defined: the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Kindness has the power to touch lives. Around 5:40pm,…
Respect and Seniority
When we age, or grow old, we change. In fact, people change because that’s our nature. I once encountered a person demanding respect because of her age. According to her, I must show respect because she is older than me. She wants anyone who had offended her will apologize and must respect her ways. I…
Business and Busyness
On my way to school to bring lunch to my kids, I thought of our friend who is very busy in her business. She has a growing list of clients and walk in customers. From my guesstimate, her business is earning at least 30k pesos a day, that’s gross. I am happy to see their…
Priorities and Time
Some of us are conscious we have 24 hours in a day, others have 25 hours, the rest maybe 26. A day is gift and a time to spend it wisely. I doubt if a person can save it for the next day and maybe sell his time. You can do that by being efficient…