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Your child's right to participate

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - May 24, 2011 - 10:38am

Parenting teens in the late nineties exposed me to a whole new world of parenting. Children’s rights are more protected now. My children are all adults now, and as I look back during their growing years,...

The value of a family meal

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - May 17, 2011 - 10:27am

Family meals are a wonderful opportunity for children and parents to bond. It’s the perfect time and place to reconnect and show our kids that they are our priority. Sitting across the table is where and...

Blessed is the family

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - May 3, 2011 - 10:48am

The teachings of Blessed Pope John Paul II on family life and marriage ring true to me. I take this opportunity to share some of his quotes and how it applied to us.

My money management rules for the family

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - April 26, 2011 - 8:45am

My family is no stranger to financial challenges. If there is one thing I often remind my children, it is “no matter the state of our financial situation, we need to implement some sort of money management...

Self worth, the best gift to our children

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - April 19, 2011 - 10:40am

I’d like to believe that the greatest gift we can ever give to our children is a healthy and positive self-concept. This concept of self-worth is also what our country needs today.

Cute things kids say

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - April 12, 2011 - 11:17am

Children say the cutest things ever. I love reading some of these anecdotes, just to smile and remember the good old days. They speak the most innocent and precious words that either warm our hearts or make us...

Let children be children

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - April 5, 2011 - 12:00am

We can all work together to ensure that no other child or minor will ever have to suffer child abuse. To allow an incident such as the one that occurred during an episode of 'Willing Willie' to go without...

I am pro-life, and I support the RH Bill

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - March 29, 2011 - 12:00am

I avoid writing about my stand on reproductive health issues here in UNBLOGGED because I have other blogs that deal with these. The thing is people attending last Friday's Church-sponsored anti-RH Bill rally actually...

Parenting through natural disasters

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - March 15, 2011 - 12:01pm

A cascade of feelings has been triggered in each one of us as the devastation brought by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is shown on TV. The images of death and destruction are everywhere. How do we explain natural...

The joys of being a mom

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - March 8, 2011 - 10:24am

Today I will take the task of listing down the joys of motherhood from the time my kids grew up from being a baby to their adult twenty-something years of age.

How parents can get involved with homework

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - March 1, 2011 - 9:15am

Grades matter,” I often told my little girls, “but only as a stepping stone to getting to your college choice. Those grades are yours, not mine.” I often reminded them as they poured over their...

My EDSA 1 babies and the spirit of the People Power Revolution

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - February 22, 2011 - 12:00am

My husband caressed my protruding belly and felt our baby move. His smile turned to a frown as he knitted his brows, “We need to pack up and move to the mountains.” I stood up and responded, ”No,...

Time management for children

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - February 15, 2011 - 12:00am

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” If there is one thing I am proud of my kids (even my departed son), it's that they...

The Alpha child

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - February 1, 2011 - 9:35am

When Marielle, my second daughter, announced two years ago that she might be a candidate for magna cum laude, I beamed with pride. Before you think that I am bragging about my daughter’s achievement, there...

Responsible parenting

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - January 25, 2011 - 12:00am

Parents leave behind two legacies to their children — one is roots, the other, wings. Everything starts with being responsible parents. Whenever news about a mother is sensationalized or controversial, my...

Resiliency is a No. 1 life skill

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - January 18, 2011 - 12:00am

"For the hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world" is such a memorable quote that I took to heart the day I cradled my beautiful baby in my arms. The concept that your child becomes...

Never an empty nest in cyberspace

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - January 11, 2011 - 12:00am

The pitter-patter of footsteps appear to be slowly fading now. “Mom, I’m home” is just an echo down memory lane. Times like these make me wish that the house is still alive with the noisy chatter...

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - January 4, 2011 - 12:00am

A quote about family from Joyce Brothers rings so true: "When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." A painful experience during the holidays reminded me that love of a...

Singing Christmas carols

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - December 21, 2010 - 12:00am

The last Christmas with my mom in 1975 was spent singing Christmas songs in our dining room. How we crooned to my mom’s delight as all the seven siblings, then aged 19 to 10 years old, gathered around...

A Treasured Christmas Tradition

by Featured Blogger Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - December 14, 2010 - 12:00am

Sparkling and dazzling lights dance around our Christmas tree. Hundreds of tiny lights run along the garlands like waves stretching all the way to the second floor. The girls’ bright red and green Christmas...

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