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Today is a special for all the fathers out there. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to my ever loving husband DEXTER who has been very supportive in everything i do. For being such a wonderful dad and husband.

To my PAPA ART and TATAY GERRY…Happy Father’s po!

And to the Greatest Father of them all!!!Our Father God Almighty!!! Thank you Lord for your unconditional love, guidance and protection. You truly protect those who believe in You. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY…

To my siblings KUYA GANI, KUYA NOEL, my in-laws KUYA PHILLIP and JONJON…HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

To our spiritual fathers, KUYA ERIC, KUYA PAUL, KUYA BEN, KUYA ROD, KUYA RAMON, KUYA NELSON, KUYA NICO, KUYA LOLITO and KUYA ENRIQUE, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY PO!

To all my brothers in Christ…HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!!!

What comes to your mind when you hear the word NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION. It means you com­municate your feelings and emo­tions through various media ? facial ex­pressions, body postures, actions, touch etc. It is believed that it is better than VERBAL COMMUNICATION.

Touch is an important tool for commu­nication. Giving an occasional hug to the child, an encouraging smile or a pat on the back can be effective in letting the child know that we love and care for him or her. Touch can help the child to experi­ence feelings of affection, intimacy, in­volvement and tenderness.

I remember myself being so affectionate to my kids when they were just babies. But as time pass by i realized that I treat them with lesser affection. I said to myself, maybe it’s normal. But now I know it is not normal for a mother to give her children lesser affection, lesser love if I may say. Something is wrong with what I am doing. My love for them should not be lesser than before. Instead, I should show my love for them not just by telling them how much I love them but by showing them my love for them thru my actions. Mother’s love should grow in time and affection.

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I am happy to announce that I have just recently discovered a site that will make children learn more important things than the usual games that they play online . The name of the site is Kid Explorers. Its look is very interesting because of its colorful webpage. What makes it even more interesting is that it offers the following:

1. Free Lesson Plans that can be used by Sunday School teachers

2. God’s Story featuring stories from the Bible

3. Coloring Pages of God’s Creation and the characters in the Bible

4. Facts about God’s Creation (Animals) and their videos

5. Interesting Questions and their Answers

6. More Stories 

I’m sure you will like this site and your kids as well.

To visit their site click here or go to http://christiananswers.net/kids/home.html

My favorite movies for kids are Disney Movies. I have watched many of them with my kids. My kids also love Disney Movies that is why they are very excited to see new released movies. The Disney movies that we have watched already are the following:

1. Toy Story
2. Finding Nemo
3. Bug’s Life
4. Ratatouille
5. Monsters
6. Pocahontas
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. The Incredible’s
9. Brother Bear
10. Tarzan
11. The Parent Trap
12. Atlantis

There are still lots of movies that I have always wanted to watch because the Disney Movies have moral lessons in their stories. It is advisable to become a Disney Movie Club Member especially if you really love watching movies for kids. But there are also movies for grown ups like Sister Act, Three Men and a Baby and many more.

Here in K.S.A we tend to watch cartoons in the Disney Channel. Sometimes they feature Disney Movies or Disney films as they call it. My kids would call me and they will tell me that they would love to watch the Disney movies with me. They get very excited and would wait for it to be featured.

Most of all my favorite Disney Movie is While You Were Sleeping. I would watch it over and over and over again. That is why often times my husband would laugh at me because I have watched it many times. I really love the movie.

Disney Movie Club offers Bestsellers, Exclusives, Animated, Live Action, and as I’ve said for Grown ups

This past past few days, we have been very active in our ministry. Helping people with their problems. We want to reach out to other people and help them to the best of our ability. But at the end of the day, I noticed that we have little time for our children. I feel guilty helping others while spending very little time with the kids. Inspite of our little time with them, God gives me patience to deal with their tantrums as kids. That makes the little time with them worth while. It’s not how long you spend time with your children, but what’s important is that you’re spending quality time with them. I know little by little God is changing us, our attitudes toward circumstances.

Every lunchtime, I would wait for my husband to come home and eat with him and our youngest son, while our two other kids are in school. After which I would to talk to him about anything. One time he had a headache and I was frustrated because the whole morning I waited for him only to see him rest because of his headache. I cried but then I saw our youngest, I stopped crying and realized, i should also focus my attention to our kids.I sang with him and that made him smile and then he hugged and kissed me. And that changed my mood and really made me happy. If we cannot change the situation, we should change our attitude.

There are times when we had to sacrifice our time teaching them because we had to help a friend. But God gives wisdom to our kids, bringing back their interest in school activities, having good grades, and also I believe their attitudes are also being changed with God’s help.I always pray that God will continually guide us in raising our children as we spend quality time with them. 

To God Be All The Glory!

I have seen kids on tv who experience malnutrition. I was alarmed seeing them suffer from it. The malnourished children stop development not only in their physical appearance but also their brain development is also affected. Studies show that children who are malnourished don’t participate well in school. At a very young age they have tuberculosis of the bones and other complications. They lack protein.

As parents we are responsible for the well-being of our children. At a very young age, we should introduce fruits, vegetables and  fish rather than fatty foods, junkfoods, softdrinks,etc. I just learned that fish is rich in omega 3 and protein.

I don’t want my children to be malnourished so I’ll try my best give them the right kind of food. To see if your child is growing up healthy you can check his or her weight using the Ideal Body Weight Calculator.

Is there a time in your life you feel like you want to be a child again? With problems here and there i sure did. Some people say that children are just children. ,we think that they don’t have the mind of their own. Every time my daughter and son come from school, they always ask for food. We think that all they care about was their stomach and games and all kids stuff. But i was amazed when we started to teach them about God and about the Bible. I never thought they would care to ask such questions. I could feel their sincerity to know the truth. Some questions i find difficult to answer. It was there that my relationship with my children became much better than before. I had time to know their insights and understand their side. The learning was a  two way street. They learn from us and we learn from them as well. And it’s very fulfilling as a mother to share special moments with your children. Our kids love it when we sometimes tell them jokes, they love it more when we have time to tickle them, the thing we call "lambing". But we must always remember that we should always be available to guide and help them like any other ordinary people.