Raising Pandora

Daughter's Latest Artpiece

I found this on her work table and asked everyone in the house who did this and it turned out SHE DID IT HERSELF!!! Wow, my four year old can really paint now. Can't believe it for like ten minutes :)

I won't and can't credit it to my teaching because the most I do is let her do her thing... vandalize the wall, the floor , my notebooks, and almost everything she can laid her hands to. I loved to buy her all sort of drawing tools like sketch pad, crayons, water color, pastel color, paint, color pencil. And a little appreciation like "Very good", "Galing", and queries like "What's this" and "Tell me about it" would do a lot of wonder pala.

And I think it worked to actually take her to the right direction...HER direction.

Learning knows no place or time

There are those days that our kids are prodding us to do something or go somewhere, but it seems our creative juices have momentarily dried up and there's shortage of tricks up our sleeves, or it's simply a "I don't wanna bother a lot" days. Here's a suggestion: Look around you!

A couple of mornings ago, I discovered something. There's a beautiful view on our very backyard. A rice field! With white birds flying around it! It's not that I haven't looked at the backyard before, maybe it's a case of not really "seeing" and appreciating.

And so i called my daughter and just as i expected, she loves it so much more than I do.

Organized me?

Try for a change.

Books with Love ♥

Books! I love lavishing my daughter with books and that's something I would love other children to have as well! I'm aware that many parents especially here in our barrio doesn't fully understand the value of reading because they themselves wouldn't even bother to open a book, there's the TV, there's the internet who needs books nowadays? I want to break this cycle even in the smallest possible scale. Here in our third world nation, libraries outside school are rarities if they exist, most are just decrepit rooms wherein books means encyclopedias, dictionaries, textbooks and bible story series. Reading is magic, it widens our horizons, it captivates imagination! Imagination is a beautiful beautiful thing, for me it's almost synonymous with genius. It is one thing I would like to impart on my child and other children. And this is only the beginning... I want to turn it into my advocacy... decent libraries for every town!

So here's what I have to do first.
1. Do legwork, discuss it with government agencies or NGO's
2. Solicit donations.
3. Set distribution date, venue, and other additional activities.
4. Send invites, ads, coordinate with barangay officials and other agencies.

Best of luck to me. I hope the passion will keep burning in my heart!♥

Community service is not just for law-breakers

Excited for my CWTS2 course this term! Strange but of all the courses I've taken this is the one I'm looking forward the most. Mind you, I'm such a beggar-snob or an anti-beggar,the better term I suppose. Perhaps because I have something in mind that I believe would truly help other human beings. Because I'm far from the metro I decided to so the self-initiated track, I'm leaning towards a teaching mission but the whole details I haven't decided or worked on yet.

Nevertheless, I know that this is not a completely selfless endeavor I'm going to tread. I'm aware that percentage of the excitement I'm feeling is based on my egoistic needs to feel significant, to feel useful, to make a difference. This doesn't make it less worthy. In fact, I believe egotism moves history forward.

#1 Destinylittleprojects

At first, we went to the municipal library to familiarize her with a library and of course, to read. To my dismay there's only two shelf worth of books mostly encyclopedias and bible story series. We scanned some of the books, view the Encyclopedia photos of mostly amphibians, reptiles, and fish.Our public library are in dire need of attention and donations. I promised myself, if Destiny's outgrown books will be given to this library. But are our townspeople really coming to this library to read? I scanned the log book and visitors are mostly from the nearby public highschool doing research.

Second, we did some weaving at home.

Materials:

Scissors

2 or more sheets of color bond paper of different colors

The weaved paper later became a skirt, shreds became bracelet, pambugaw ng langaw, magic wand. Imagination is surely the limit.

Launching Destiny's Little Projects

I decided to have 100 Little Projects for my daughter and I's bonding educational activities. This will help me remind myself how I'm faring coz I tend to be ningas kugon and all that.

I've been thinking about homeschooling her for her kindergarten and nursery age but I'm not sure if I'll be able to expand myself that much to produce something sufficient(at least) for her education. What I know is she's painfully shy now and I don't think I'm someone who can fill up the socialization gap in a homeschooling setting, I'm not a social butterfly either.

Surely there are remedies, extra curricular activities are abound outside school systems except we're in a less-civilized place called the province. I really wish I have like-minded parents in our area for support system.

Good thing, I have ample time to think all about these.