A Mother's Advice to Young Adult Daughters

You are in your favorite hang-out, enjoying an evening with your girl friends. Good clean fun, sharing stories, laughs and a few bottles of "not-so-softdrinks."  Then, at the corner of your eye you caught a glimpse of an eye-candy son of Adam looking at you.  You slightly tilted your head to meet his gaze.  He smiled and walked towards you.

As he came close enough to make small talk in a noisy public party place he asked, "Hi, can I have your name?"

What do you do? This guy is too good looking to pass up.  You'd be the envy of your peers for having bagged such a catch.  Ladies, before your imagination drifts off to romanceville, please consider some possibilities that mothers have already experienced.   

He asked for your name.  You must think, "What for?"  Darlings, most likely, HE IS GAY.  He asked for your name because he is scouting beautiful young ladies' names to check whether it would suit him.  For example, if he's named Roldan... what would a Danica, or a Daniele, or a Dolly typically look like?   

Let's go back to the scene....  "Hi, can I have your name?", he asked

You answer, "Why, what wrong with your name?"

--oooOooo--

Second possibility is, it's not only your name is wants to have.  

He asked for your name.  You must think, "Is knowing my name the only thing he is interested in?" You have to admit my darlings, that men in bars are not particularly looking for serious relationships.  Men frequent the night scene looking for FUN.  The most important fact that you have to remember and believe in, is that you are a PERSON and not a TOY. 

Now, let go back to the scene, again..... "Hi, can I have your name?"

You answer, "Are you sure it's all you want?"

When you see him change color, it means you saw right through his pathetic modus operandi.  And you, and your friends can just walk away.

P.S.  When you answer his question with, "Yes you can, but you may not."  And he doesn't understand, please walk away.  His I.Q. is so low that it is located somewhere between his waist and knees!

P.P.S.  Yes, I know what your thinking.  What if it was the right man for you and you blew your chance of meeting him?  Don't worry, if both of you are meant to be together, life has a funny way of making a U-turn, and give you another chance to know each other under more favorable and pleasant circumstances.  That's why it's called "Destiny"

 

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Help Donna

This girl on the picture is Donnavelle Hipe Reyes a resident of Doña Soledad Subdivision, General Santos City.

Donna has been missing since September 26, 2008.

She was last seen by her class adviser at 1:30PM that day (Friday) at the Saavedra Saway Elementary School, Barangay Labangal, General Santos City.  She was wearing plain yellow T-shirt, maong pants and sandals.  Donna is 12 years old and stands at around 4'8" to 4'10".

If you have any information about her disappearance or may lead to her whereabouts please contact any of the following numbers:

    Erwin Reyes (father) - 09105076031
    Diana Reyes (mother) - 09187553562

If you don't know anything about this case, you can still help by forwarding this email/blog to all the people in your address book or blogroll.

Let us pray that the internet will be God's instrument of finding her and bring the wrongdoers to justice.

The Dinosaur, the Wizard, and the King

My son, Johan Matthew is 5 years old. He is the only "reader" in the entire Kindergarter-1 class in an integrated special education school. Since he started attending classes, he never came home with less that perfect scores in all his school works. The results of his Mastery Examinations were always star-studded. Johan speaks the English language with much fluency and with proper pronunciations too.

Nobody in the entire household can rightfully claim credit over this phenomenon. The credits are due to a purple dinosaur, a scarred wizard, and a reluctant king!

Being the only small one in the house, he developed the ability on how to entertain himself. While everybody else is busy doing "grown up stuff." He is often left under the purple dinosaur's care.

Barney taught him the alphabet, table manners, basic hygiene, and his introduction to numeracy and sensory perceptual concepts.

Later on, when Johan was 3 years old he developed kinship with Harry Potter. The subtitles on the DVD provided him advanced lessons in speech development, speed reading and context comprehension. At age 4, Harry was replaced by Peter of Narnia.

I had a chat with a friend who was a teacher of Psychology and who specializes on Child Development about this condition. She said that while television, movie and other fictional characters cannot substitute parental teaching and guidance, they may fill-in certain gaps that parents are unable to perform. Just make sure that parents know who these fictional characters are and what the nature of their characters project. It is also important that parents make sure that the subtitles on movies that children watch are grammatically correct and the words are accurately spelled.

The subtitles represent visual representations of the words spoken by the character; the spoken words are the aural affirmation of the words read; and the scenes provide the perceptual meaning of the words read and heard. Over-all, it becomes a multi-sensory experience for the child.

My son may not become a Mensa candidate anytime soon. But, I am just glad that he is growing up to be smart. Thanks to Barney, Harry and Peter.