Archive for the 'Family Matters' Category

Friends as family members

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

This person I know considers her friends as family members. I understand because she is an only child and her parents are separated. She grew up with her mom and was not treated right by relatives. Naturally, she isn’t close to them and gets to talk to a few of them only. She actually grew [...]

Family feud

Monday, December 5th, 2011

So how do you resolve a family feud? I think that when a person gets hurt, it takes a long time for him to heal, more so if the person(s) who hurt him is(are) his kin. Am I right in my observation? Because I should tell you, that’s what happened to us recently. We showed [...]

Family comes first.

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Maybe it’s just me but for me family always comes first. Before anything else, before my own happiness, I always think of my family. That’s how it’s been all my life. That’s why I can’t understand why some people can still smile when there’s a big problem hounding the family. I can’t fathom why some [...]

November 1st tradition

Friday, November 4th, 2011

We are a family full of traditions. Every November 1st we go to the grave of our dearly departed loved ones. We bring flowers and candles with us. Then we stay at the cemetery/columbary until late in the afternoon or early evening. It’s a tradition that we haven’t broken since I was a little girl [...]

Your kids’ curfew

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Let me tell you about this mother who lets her kids walk all over her. She tolerates all their foolish ways and even looks past her kids faults. I was told that the younger kid, a teenage son, wasn’t home at four in the morning. The mother, waking up not seeing her son at home, [...]

Ungrateful relatives

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

I think we all have one in the family tree, right? Ungrateful relatives. Those whom you’ve helped along the way and during a crucial time in their lives but who act as though you’ve done nothing of the sort. Those relatives who bad mouth you when they should be singing your praises and telling the [...]

Personal issues

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

I was watching Hoarders in BIO Channel with my sister a while ago. We were talking about how those people can live like that. Mountains of trash and rotten stuff around you inside your own home. Eeek! Two families are featured in each episode. In the episode that we caught today, both mothers were hoarders. [...]

Discipline in kids

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

One of the things that I wanted to have learned early on in life is discipline. I think being the eldest in the family and the apple of the eye of the elders made me take discipline for granted. You know how it is when every one’s catering to your whims… Discipline is very important. [...]

Selling the ancestral house

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

The ancestral house in my mom’s side of the family was sold very recently. It was heartbreaking, to say the least. I grew up in that house. My siblings and my cousins and almost all of us in my mom’s side of the family grew up in that house. I just can’t imagine the house [...]

Wet and dry market

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Believe it or not, I am one of those persons who find going to the market exciting. I love going to the market. I rarely do so because we have someone who does this for us every day. But whenever we’re in the province, I never pass up a chance to scour the market for [...]

Overwhelming need to help

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

My uncle is very sick. In fact, he can barely breathe anymore. He needs to be hospitalized as soon as possible but since his family has no money to spend for the hospitalization, they are waiting for help from relatives like us. I have every intention of helping. In fact, I am also encouraging my [...]

Life is good.

Friday, April 29th, 2011

It is. With all the ups and downs, regardless of the tragedies that happened, life is still good. And it will always be as long as your family is with you. Do you agree? Happy weekend everyone!

Parents aiding in abuse of their child

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

You probably heard about this game show where a child danced like an adult in front of a laughing host and audience. The child was crying while dancing, obviously humiliated beyond words on what he was doing in exchange for ten grand for his family. There was an uproar over that incident. People are clamoring [...]

Family comes first.

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

You might have noticed by now the importance I put on family. Family comes first for me. It always does and it always will. My mom had something to do with this attitude. She made me realize that no matter what happens, a person always comes back to his/her family for support and love. No [...]

Intervention

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

One of the reality-docu shows that I watch is Intervention. It’s about families asking for help in intervening with their love one’s drug or alcohol addiction. It’s a really good show because it not only shows us what happens to a drug or alcohol addict but also to their families. How the dependent’s family members [...]