What’s your ‘K-tharsis’?: Part II
LAST week, I shared the first batch of my K-drama recommendations on the topic of self. This week, I will continue on with my “K-thartic” reflections on love, relationships and society.
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LAST week, I shared the first batch of my K-drama recommendations on the topic of self. This week, I will continue on with my “K-thartic” reflections on love, relationships and society.
MY friends and I have recently been watching more Korean series since the March lockdown. The first K-drama I ever watched was Crash Landing On You. Needless to say, I am one of the millions of Filipinos who adore the lead actor, Hyun Bin. I like the K-drama plots, the learnings, the songs and the amazing cinematography.
LAST week I shared the different kinds of isolation we might be feeling in the face of this pandemic. I pointed out the need to be aware and accept what we are missing. This week, I would like to share my view on isolation. I hope that amid all the anxieties of when this pandemic will come to an end, we can actually find hope together.
THERE have been many effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our day-to-day lives. Due to the economic effects of company shutdowns and reduced work hours, employees and business owners are facing many financial setbacks. The closure of schools and restrictions in malls and parks are also causing major disruptions in the daily routines of children and students. These consequently bear mental and psychological impacts on our society.
AS schools turn to cyberspace to make remote teaching possible, parents are suddenly forced to embrace distance learning and assume added responsibilities with their child’s schooling. Here are five things parents need to know to prepare themselves as they weave family life into their child’s home learning with online safety in mind:
FOR the past month, I have been speaking to several moms with kids aged eight years and below about this coming school year. As a parent, I see their point regarding fees, screen time for younger kids, and especially the effectivity of online learning. As an educator who specializes in early child development (ECD), I feel doubly concerned over how putting a school year off due to this pandemic may affect the critical years of child development. I wanted to find the answer myself.
LAST month, celebrity mom Dimples Romana and influencer moms Patty Laurel-Filart and Kryz Uy joined Huggies Philippines (www.huggies.com.ph) in championing parenthood in this difficult time with Huggies Club. Gathering thousands of moms online, the five-week series of online forums on Facebook Live showed videos that proved to be a relatable and reliable support system for parents. The forums connected them to experts from various fields ranging from developmental pediatrics, child care development, mental health, nutrition and more. Whether expectant, new, or going into their nth child, moms were able to gain access and listen to expert tips and credible advice so they can give the comfort and care they need for themselves and their children.
WE are currently in the middle of this Covid-19 pandemic. For the first few months, we were educated on how to protect our health. Today, we tread on another issue: dealing with our financial situation. It made me think of how early I should prepare my kids in managing finances.
Continuing from last week, here are the next forms of “equipping” my husband does for my kids:
IT was 2010 when I wanted to push for “Dad Empowerment” in my work. I remember how my husband was too afraid to carry our newborn because she was so tiny. He only got confident to carry her more when she was a little over a year old. I wanted to find tools to equip fathers more. At the time, we found a carrier brand, Ergobaby, which allowed “heart-to-heart” embrace while the baby was being carried. We introduced the concept of how dads, after a whole week of work, can actually spend quality heart-to-heart time with their baby, and mothers can relax a bit while the family strolls through the mall.
THE “new normal” is starting for many of us. Work hours have changed or dropped significantly. The commute is difficult or impossible due to limited public transportation. Payment due dates for bills have resumed. Home life has changed in various ways. We try to take things day by day but the uncertainty of many things continues to make us anxious.
MOST schools have announced they will open this coming August under distance learning. How prepared are we and our kids for this? Are our kids really learning under this format? How do we replace physical Pre-K classes for our infants and toddlers and learn at home?
LAST week I shared that the first step to the “new normal” is to gather positive reflections on the good things we have learned and
These past few months have been filled with mixed emotions for each of us. There have been many adjustments we had to make. Frontliners from the health and various industries have had to face their daily fears for others and for themselves. Some of us had to experience deaths of people dear to us. As the enhanced community quarantine gets lifted slowly, it poses the question: “Are we ready to face our new normal?”
HERE is another addition to my series, “Diary of a Mom With No Limits.” Last Sunday was Mother’s Day, and for some reason it made me suddenly reflect on the word “nurture.” It made me realize how I have always wanted to be a mother. More than that, it made me think of my unique “firstborn.”
THIS week, let me share my thoughts on how a learning mindset helps us in seizing the active opportunity this quarantine period presents.
IT has been a month now since the declaration of the enhanced community quarantine. Following the sharp increase in the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases throughout the country, classes and all school activities at all levels have been suspended officially until April 30. However, there is a big possibility that this might get extended.
LAST week, I shared that getting real with Covid-19 is about going back to basics…prevention and reality check. We need to have a reality mindset that you can get Covid-19. I initially shared prevention measures given by our pediatrician. This week, let me also share her suggested home-care measures in the event that we gets sick or a person in our home does:
THE first time I wrote about the coronavirus was last February 6. At the time, it seemed quite “distant” from us. We were just becoming aware and attempting to understand the disease based on what we were reading from global news. We knew it originated from Wuhan, Hubei, in China in December 2019. We knew it had affected China and countries nearby. I would touch base and check on friends who had just started to work from home in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Japan. A friend even shared a story on how even toilet paper could not be found at the grocery stores in Hong Kong. Back then, I felt like a spectator, hoping by the sidelines that the situation for the affected countries get better soon.
MEAGAN, your first ambition at four was to become a makeup artist. You watched makeup videos every chance you got. I remember when we were at the Kuala Lumpur Airport, you asked if I could buy you a stippling brush. I had to go to a MAC counter to find out for myself what this brush was. One time, I had a product launch at Rockwell and didn’t have the time to put on my makeup in the salon because my hair was being fixed, so you volunteered to put my makeup on for me.
MARCH is the month of graduation ceremonies and recognition days for most schools. It is also Women’s Month. I thought it best to focus this month on the topic of achievements. This week, let me start with my ongoing series I-Parent.
THIS is my last installment for this topic on “good reading”. During the last two weeks, I shared my late but worthwhile entry into the reading world. I also shared my discovery with my kids about each child differing in finding their purpose and comfort in books, but as parents, we can help pave this path with them. This week let me share two distinct and unique reading enrichment programs I have researched on.
LAST week I shared how I discovered my love for “good reading.” This week, let me share with you my kids’ unique journeys and their individual takes on what good reading means for them.
WHEN I was in preschool, language and spelling were the subjects I found most difficult. Later on I dreaded reading comprehension. Writing school papers always left my head scratching over the result. At 10th grade in the United States, my teacher checked each step from the topic, outline, note cards and body. I did well in the earlier steps. In the end, I still got a line of B.
MANY of us parents worry if we are protecting our children’s health enough. Most of us worry the most when they are babies. Thanks to the efforts of many groups on breastfeeding awareness, most moms, including myself, now opt to breastfeed as much as they can. Aside from breast milk providing the ideal nutrition for babies, according to www.healthline.com, it contains important antibodies that help your babies fight off viruses and bacteria.
THE Chinese New Year celebration has passed. Every year, we see more and more people performing rituals that are believed to bring more luck. Everyone would wish for luck in love, family, wealth, profession, and so on.
MY gratitude to my “Yellow Home” continues with my beloved teachers. It starts with people who accepted me in. Last year, I was very saddened to hear of Señora Villanueva’s passing. She was my first handshake to Poveda because of my Saturday Spanish remedials. As a testament to her meaningful tutelage, one of my life’s bucket list is to study at Instituto Cervantes in Madrid.
JUST last weekend, we celebrated our Poveda high-school homecoming at Saint Pedro Poveda College. I was grateful to be given a few minutes to speak about my advocacy: “Poveda is a big part of my advocacy’s roots and its future. It was Poveda’s ever-nurturing Ms. Sally Villavicencio who pushed me to finish my Education course here at Poveda and pass my LET exam last September. It is my great memories with my teachers and classmates in Poveda, that I wish for child education to be as enriching as what I experienced in my Yellow Home.
A WEEK before Christmas, I had dinner with two very unique individuals: Cristina Concepcion and Bing Tan. Cristina, a pioneer in the Philippine finance, accounting and human-resource outsourcing industry, had impressed in me the true meaning of putting substance in her craft. Bing, a force of his own as the mind behind many business software solutions, literally was my very first friend since we were in nursery in Saint Jude.
LAST week I shared a list of three distinct events on how December was off to a great start. This week, my list continues but comes in combinations and crossovers.
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