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                    [Title] => Baby care rituals for happy, healthy development
                    [Summary] => 

Johnson's encourage parents to learn more about these rituals, and regularly practice them with their children from birth up until their toddler years.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-11 11:31:24 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/cebu-news/20140914/baby-childbirth-1.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1394775 [Title] => Rituals [Summary] =>

A woman’s rituals can make or break her. Most of the time, they glorify her.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/allure/20141123/rituals-9.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1306486 [Title] => Good Luck Rituals [Summary] =>

Civilization bubbles with folk rituals that have survived centuries of practice, from oral traditions to the so-called "new normal!" What are oral traditions?

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1276613 [Title] => Versace Jeans opens 1st Phl store at the Shangri-La Plaza [Summary] =>

Versace Jeans, one of the world’s most iconic and famous fashion luxury brands, has recently opened its first store in the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 840975 [Title] => The secret of superstition [Summary] =>

Whenever I receive a chain message or observe some ritualistic prescription on how to change one’s luck or turn the force of nature, I get amused.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1489734 [AuthorName] => Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 733024 [Title] => The Pre-Race Ritual [Summary] =>

You may have heard of athletes (professional and recreational) with rituals like wearing a lucky shirt or clothing item (which they may or may not wash), bouncing balls the same number of times before a free throw, not shaving while on a winning streak, etc. This may seem weird to those who don't engage in sports of any kind, but sports psychologists say these kinds of rituals help athletes focus and compete at their highest level.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1633018 [AuthorName] => Nuffnang blogger Kikayrunner [SectionName] => Unblogged [SectionUrl] => unblogged [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 513733 [Title] => Venezuela folk religion seen in secretive rituals [Summary] =>

Thousands of Venezuelans congregated for candlelit rituals on a remote mountainside where adherents make an annual pilgrimage to pay homage to an indigenous goddess known as Maria Lionza.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-14 06:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 331690 [Title] => Catching moonbeams in a jar [Summary] => "I did, you know, I did see man kel-ly closs in palking lot and I wondel, why would man kel-ly clos in palking lot?" ("I did, you know, I did see a man carry cross in parking lot and I wondered, why would man carry cross in parking lot?") Siriphong, a Thai ornithologist (scientist who studies birds), was twiddling over some small loose branches as he told me this as we sat on the stairs near a fountain in a campus in Bangkok. [DatePublished] => 2006-04-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249681 [AuthorName] => DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223143 [Title] => Morning rituals [Summary] => If you wake up in the morning to the sound of the alarm clock and rush off to start the day, then you deprive yourself of one of the most important things vital for a good life. You have missed out on morning rituals and their total benefit.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133352 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1099583 [AuthorName] => A SPIRITED SOUL BY Jeannie E. Javelosa [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => ) ) )
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