positive parenting

Tabachingching

03.20.2010
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Jamaine and I were watching TV when she suddenly blurted out, “Mommy, si tabachingching andiyan sa baba kanina…” “Sino si tabachingchng?” I had to cut her story short as alarm bells rang in my head. “‘Yung neighbor…” “Baby, hindi tabachingching ang pangalan niya. Did you ask her name?” “Hindi po.” “Then next time, ask her [...]

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Think before you speak

02.03.2008
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Do you think before you speak? I was re-reading my favorite book The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale for the nth time but one of the paragraphs there struck me now like it never did before. One of Dr. Peale’s patients was a man suffering from chronic negativity because of a dysfunctional [...]

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