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Aside from my kids, there have been hundreds of other kids who have been my children at some points in their lives because I am a teacher. Most of these kids, who are in their teens, are rich and financially capable of paying for anything, from the latest mobile phones, notebooks and branded clothes. But what hurts is when they have to pay for a rehab.

Teenagers are at loss, most of the time confused because of the physical, emotional and social changes happening at their stage. As such, when not properly guided, they resort to rebellion in different forms like taking illegal drugs, alcohol, cigarettes; bullying others or being bullied; or living a boxed life.

I tried my best to keep my students out of these when I was still teaching. Now that I’m a parent, I’d do my best to guide my sons properly so they won’t have to go through such things.

Meanwhile, my brother and his wife need praises for encouraging my nieces and nephews to find themselves by exposing them to productive activities that would make them better and happier little persons.

We’re all glad that you’re doing great Shaine, Charles, Antoinette and Christian! Good job!

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Children ask many questions. By doing so, they learn. However, having an answer to each and every question they throw doesn’t always guarantee contentment. Perhaps that’s the reason why they explore. They hunger for knowledge, they want to learn. And what could be the best way to teach them than to do things with them so that you would be sure they’d have proper guidance?

They may ask where fruits come from. Plant vegetables and trees with them. They may look too young to understand the importance of trees and the concepts of oxygen, carbon dioxide or life cycle, but I assure you there isn’t better time to include them in such a wonderful activity than while they are young. This way, they would grow up with planting as an inseparable part of their lives which they would later pass on to the next generation.

They may ask how bicycles stand on two wheels.  Go find a trail and bike with them! You may not be able to fully explain the physics of biking but being able to set them on their own feet and to see them getting somewhere on a bike is a wonderful accomplishment.

We’re told many times that we should teach a child in the way he should go and when he grows old, he will not turn away from it. This is always true, but this is a heavy mandate.

The path that we’d take would definitely affect our children’s lives because our footsteps leave patterns on the sand. If we leave good imprints, there is a bigger chance that the younger ones would find themselves in good standing.

Children and even babies may still be young, innocent and inexperienced, but they are always old and wise enough to grasp ideas, reality and truth. We teach them and we learn from them, too.

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This is the social networking age and everyone’s on the computer Tweeting, Facebooking, and now Churping! Yap, that may sound new, but it’s another social networking thing with a twist. Well, it’s different because it allows you to earn while you’re using your Twitter or FB account. All you need to do is register and share some words about certain services or products (which, you can choose according to your personal preferences). That means, you can either accept or decline to Tweet ads depending on your liking. Well, I guess that’s fair enough, don’t you think?

So if you’re spending much time on FB or Twitter, you might as well try this one. Just click on the link below for instructions.

Tweeting a lot? Let your Tweets get REWARDS! Join ph.churpchurp.com.

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My nephews might go to the Middle East this April. Their dad’s home to fetch them so they could have a complete family vacation – something that they haven’t done for a long time because they have been living apart from each other. My nephews are with us while my brother and his wife, together with their two daughters live in self-catering apartments in Dubai, UAE.

In connection to this, I am reminded that for children, traveling spells fun. As such, it is always a must for parents to plan their travels with much care so that everything from airline tickets to HomeAway Holiday Rentals, transportation and the like is prepared.

To help my brother prepare the boys for the travel, I’d have to sit down and read some travel magazines again. I hope I’d find some useful tips from the Barcelona travel guide pamphlet I have in hand as this will be the boys’ first travel by air!

I better start my research now!

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Last month I joined two new blog networks through my FB account, Networked Blogs and Pinay Mommy Bloggers. Thanks to Janet for introducing me to the groups as it inspired me to revive Write Mom, which I just changed to Write Mum’s Colors to differentiate it from my active site.

As part of this restoration, which came about because I found out I am the only mommy blogger in PMB with only one blog, I had to replace my header with a new design and to talk about what my blog would actually be from now on.

As emphasis falls on the word Colors, this site is re-designed to feature colorful children’s stories as told, viewed, imagined, created and talked about by my kids and probably their cousins; as observed, heard and recorded by no less than Mum(me) through blog articles and photos.