Ang Pambihirang Sombrero (The Amazing Hat) is my recent favorite storybook from writer-illustrator Jose Miguel “Jomike” Tejido’s creative endeavors. I was hooked to “Dindo Pundido” when the twins were barely a year old. Ang Pambihirang Sombrero tells the story of a girl named Mia, who loves old things. One day, …
Staying sane on top of this motherhood job is near impossible. It does not come easy for single moms, stay-at-home moms, work-from-home moms and working moms. We all have our individual challenges and issues but it is up to us to do something about them. I’ve been a stay-at-home Mama …
Handwashing is a family culture at Casa Ruffolo — and it is largely because of Jeff who emphasized to the children the need to have clean hands. Nicholas and Antoinette wash their hands before and after eating, after using the toilet and after every playtime or activity they participate in.
I had second thoughts about reading Eric Carle’s Papa Please Get the Moon for Me to my children. The story is about a girl named Monica who wants to play with moon so she went ahead and asked Papa what she wanted. Papa did everything in his power to give the moon …
It’s been almost two years since I finished a graduate degree in Language and Literacy Education at the University of the Philippines Open University. I decided to take the course a few months after the twins were born. I was focused on being my children’s first teacher that I abandoned …
So I finally worked up the courage and the time to implement, Toddler Storytime, a project I have long planned but failed to put into fruition. It came with the guilty feeling of spending two months and eight days of being totally silent in this blog with no post or …
I woke up with the realization that we are on the last week of January and I have not written about Christmas in this blog. So pardon the obvious lateness of this post as I share with you how our multi-cultural family celebrated Christmas.
Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a delightful book which provides lessons on numbers, days of the week, fruits, food and the life cycle of a butterfly. For teachers and mothers with children five years old and below, this is a resource material that can be used for two …
Just when I thought that all the 2018 opening salvo drama is over, after an honest driver returned Jeff’s black bag fiasco, here comes hand-foot-and-mouth (HFM) disease. It started three days ago with a feverish Jeff Junior. Ate Joy told me that the resident cutie pie is sick and we …
Jeff left home for another business trip in China and suddenly the bed is empty. Literally, empty. So I invited the kids to sleep in our room, a gesture only accorded to Jeff Junior when Daddy is around because he is smaller in size than the twins, which allows him …
