Category Archives: Child’s Interest

Ella’s Birthday Party

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Joy| 2 Comments

 It’s nice to attend a birthday party. Everybody enjoys and everyone is happy. There’s a lot of food prepare by the love ones of the celebrator. Taking pictures with family and friend. Meet new friends. Enjoy watching and participating in funny activities. In some birthday party especially in children’s party it nice to hire a clown just to entertain the celebrant’s guests.

Ella's Birthday

Ella's Birthday

One of my close friend’s two-year-old sister celebrates her birthday last Sunday evening and we had a chance to celebrate with them. They were complete; her brother came all the way home from Manila to Cebu just to celebrate the birthday of their youngest sister. The party was very simple yet full of support and warmth from the celebrators love-ones. Ella has had a great time on her birthday bash.

ella blowing her birthday cake

ella blowing her birthday cake

And our little boy also enjoyed watching of new faces around him. This is his first time to attend a birthday party. He love sing along with the music played. He got very much attracted to the balloons so I tried to bring him near the balloons for him to touch them gently. He is the only little one who graces Ella’s 2nd birthday. Even my little son can’t speak, I know his heart was filled with happiness and may be saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY ATE ELLA…

just touch the balloon

just touch the balloon

atlast i touch the balloon... thanks to my mama

atlast i touch the balloon... thanks to my mama

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Instant Model

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Joy| 11 Comments

One morning, when my husband came home from work, his face was happy and excited. That day was the day when their training with windows 7 ends and the launching as well. As a token they were given a fresh copy of the new Operating System and when he got his kit of genuine windows 7, he was so delighted. He has the biggest smile when he showed the item to me and when he relates to me the joy they had upon hearing the announcement and upon getting a hold of their own copy.  After that he got busy taking picture the item as he planned to post them on his blog site as well. The sweetest thing was that he had got an instant model; our handsome and adorable son.   

pose to be like real model

pose to be like real model

showing the item

showing the item

just picking-up the item

just picking-up the item

well... i've done my job

well... i've done my job

     

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Rare Plant

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Joy| Comments Off

One Sunday, while we were on our Sunday morning exercise at a playground near in our house, a plant truly catches my attention. It looks like an artificial ornamental plant. Not contented by just starring from afar I came closer to the plant and I try to touch it. To my surprise the plant was real. I just can’t believe my eye coz it really looked artificial when I looking from the distance and even when you are near. I really enjoyed seeing that plant. It’s one of a kind. I admit that I’ve seen a lot of rare plants and flower in mountain when I was still active with mountaineering they were nice and beautiful. This one too.  I appreciate the beauty of every flower at the mountain, and this plant that I’ve seen at the playground of the school, really makes difference. It has a unique color and beauty that I really attract my sight. In fact, I don’t know what kind of plant it was and I don’t even know what it is called.      

rare plant

rare plant

Every thing in nature will always be good in the sight of every human especially in children. Mothers should expose your little one in the nature, even in their young age. We have to tell them of the creation that were made by our Heavenly Creator.

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Mother’s Instruction

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Joy| Comments Off

Cooking is a branch of education which has the most direct influence upon human life. Young women think that it is menial to cook and do other kinds of housework. For this reason, many girl who marry and have the care of families have little idea of the duties devolving upon a wife and mother. 

Teach your children on how to cook. In giving your children in physiology, and teaching them how to cook with simplicity and yet with skill, you are laying the foundation for the most useful branches of education.

Mother should take their daughters into the kitchen with them when very young, and teach them the art of cooking. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval.

 

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Training and Preparation of Parents

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Joy| 4 Comments

The child’s first teacher is the mother. During the period of greatest susceptibility and most rapid development his education is to a great degree in her hands. To her first is given opportunity to mold the character for good or for evil. She should understand the value of her opportunity and, above every other teacher, should be qualified to use it to the best account. Yet there is no other to whose training so little thought is given. The one whose influence in education is most potent and far-reaching is the one for whose assistance there is the least systematic effort. Upon fathers as well as mothers rests a responsibility for the child’s earlier and later training. For both parents the demand for careful and thorough preparation is urgent. Before taking upon themselves the possibilities of fatherhood and motherhood, men and women should become acquainted with the laws of physical development – with physiology and hygiene, with the bearing of prenatal influences, with the laws of heredity, sanitation, dress, exercise, and the treatment of disease. They should also understand the laws of mental development and moral training.

At times the heart may be ready to faint; but a living sense of the dangers threatening the present and future happiness of their love ones should lead Christian parents to seek more earnestly for help from the source of strength and wisdom. It should make them circumspect, decided, and calm yet firm, while they watch these children, as they that must give account.  

When I was young my mother always teaches us to be responsible in every thing we do. We are the ones responsible of our selves, especially in making decision in life. She always reminds us to have the good hygiene, and take care of our dignity. In choosing partner we have been warned to check the background or the hereditary history of the family. We have to choose wisely because our future will be base in our decision. She teaches us most especially the good moral exercise and mental development.

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What Is it Made Of?

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Joy| Comments Off

Teaching the child the materials out of which things are made will enrich his reservoir of information. It will also help him care for and value things more. A child will handle a knife carefully if he knows that the knife is made of hard and sharp metal which can cut him. He will handle a figurine with caution if he knows that it is made of gragile and breakable porcelain.

During conversations, discuss with him what the objects around are made of. What is the chair he is sitting on made of? What are his clothes made of? If the child does not, as yet, grasp the question, simplify: Is it made of wood? Are your shorts made of cotton?

If the question are still too difficult, ask about the characteristics or features of the object. Is it heavy or light? What is its color? What does it smell like? Is it rough or smooth? Let him ask you likewise. All conversations should be two-way streets.

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FAMILY OUTINGS

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Joy| 2 Comments

Outings invite the use of all the child’s five senses. The child learns about the world through these senses. So he must be encouraged to look, listen, taste, smell, and touch as many things as possible.

Through outings, the child learns to discover and appreciate new things as well as to ask questions about the environment. He becomes perceptive and aware. His outlook widens. The grooups and individuals he relates to increase. Sharpening his senses prepares him for more complicated tasks.

Going out for walks or rides or visits is a favorite treat among children. It takes them out of the house to discover, explore and learn.

The activity need not be expensive. The outings could just be a walk around the neighborhood, a trip to the market, a stroll to a nearby playground, or part of regular visits to relatives and friends.

To make the walk leisurely and absorbing, you could tell a story or recite a poem. If during an outing, he just wants to sit somewhere, don’t fuss. Just urge him to look around. Call his attention to the trees, their leaves and fruit, the people walking about, the small animals, the dragonflies, etc.

After the outing, encourage him to talk about or draw his impressions on the trip. Attending to the child’s interests, answering his questions, catering to his intellectual requirements are a good way to show your child that you care for him.

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Child Can Learn Rhythm

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Joy| Comments Off

Rhythm is the regular, measured beat of sound. The child can learn rhythm from the sounds produced by stones or sticks or metals beat in regular intervals against anything that reverberates. The rhythm created can accompany songs or poems or dnaces.

In music, it is to rhythm before tone or tune that the child first responds. It is important to develop his sense of rhythm so that he will love and enjoy music.

To teach him that music can come from many sources, put together an improvised “rhythm band”, as follows:

  • Turn an old kettle into a drum with a spoon for a drumstick.
  • two large metal pot covers are cymbals when clapped together.
  • flattern metal bottle caps into discs; nail them in pairs to a board and you have a tambourine.
  • two bamboo slats can provide added rhythmic sounds.

Use the above “instrument” to accompany the child’s song. Let the child discover the various tones and beats produced. Let him move and dance to the rhythm.

Also, familiarize him with the sounds of nature (the blowing of the wind, the pitter-patter of the rain, the barking of dogs and other animal sounds). Then, point out the rhythm to these sounds.

Teach him to sound out rhythm with his voice or with the clapping of his hands. For example, let him repeat the “ik-pak, pik-pak” rhythm of the rain.

Get him to elicit rhythmic sounds from his bodily movements. Let him stamp his feet, slap his arms and thighs, etc.

 

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Time For Your Children

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Joy| 3 Comments

Read to your children, together or individually. They will love it, and  you will be investing in their education for life.

Make a “date” with each child at least once a month. I had a friend who took each of his daughter on one date a month – anywhere they wanted to go. This made their relationship much stronger.

Support your children’s hobbies or sports by watching, cheering from the sidelines, volunteering, and where necessary, driving them to and from events.

Spend  time with your kids on their homework. Even on a busy day, sitting with your child will encourage him or her, keep them focused, and remind you of when you were in school.

Make shared memories: holidays as a family, cooking and baking, gardening, house cleaning, doing a craft or just coloring.

 

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CHILDREN COLLECTIONS

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Joy| Comments Off

Besides being an amusing and engrossing hobby, collecting is a very educational activity. While collecting all kinds of things, the child learns a great deal about his world. It sharpens his curiosity. He learns similarities and differences and increases his scientific store of knowledge.

Children Collection

Children Collection

The collection could be of anything – colored stones, seashells, seeds, pictures from magazines, pressed flowers or leaves – whatever takes his fancy. He could start his collection during outing.

Give your child a box or a drawer where he can keep his collection. Ask him to sort out and arrange the items according to size or color or shape, etc., and perhaps to “catalogue” them by drawing the items he has gathered in a small notebook.

Talk to him about his collection – what makes the pieces the same and/or different, whether there are special features, where and how he found them. 

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