My 4 Year Old Can Read

My little boy learned the alphabet all by himself by heart before he turns 3. Credit goes to  VTech Learning Laptop, his constant companion since he was a baby. He started schooling at age 3 and doing pretty good in class but when we moved to another State, he stopped  schooling. He is  not allowed to go to kindergarten yet because of his age, school only accept 5 years old and I also enrolled him in head start but he is on a waiting list until  now. So, as a mother,  I have to teach him at home to not to waste his time.

A Child's Prayer

 Prayer is simply communicating with God. Believers pray through memorization of a certain prayer from the church or religion and some prays freely, spontaneously and in their own words. Our kids prays according to what we teaches them and whatever religion we are in. I teaches my kids to pray as simple as possible. Basically, a prayer that only includes "thank you" and "Please" for asking something from God.

A Good Name

How do you value your name? Is it synonymous to credibility, honesty and truthfulness? Billy Joel's song, Honesty, goes like: "Honesty, it's such a lonely word, everyone is so untrue." Just look at the political news, it is not hard to find dishonest people and yet these same people expect to be treated with honesty as if they deserve it! In the Philippines, there is a popular saying, "Ang magnanakaw ay kapatid ng sinungalin." (A thief is a sibling of a liar.) With so many thieves and so many liars, it really seems that honesty is hard to find.

Dad Offer His Daughter $200 to Quit Facebook

Paul Baier's, pays 14-year-old daughter $200 to quit Facebook. He makes his daughter  sign a contract to quit Facebook for five months. The payment will be on an installments plan. Rachel gets $50 if she could stay away from Facebook through the middle of April and another $150 if she makes it  in five months which is until the end of June.

Parenting: A Never-Ending Responsibility

What is a parent? Everyone have their own definition or understanding of what a parent is or should be. Our meaning to it largely depends on our own beliefs, orientation or sometimes our own experiences in life. Even our society or the media in particular would try to instill in us their own definition of a parent. Because of this, the definition of parent has become somewhat tainted and obscured.