Election is fast approaching so are we teaching our voters the power they have come election time?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 5:14 AM
It is already April 26, 2013 so four days more and it is goodbye April. This means May is before us and when 13 comes it is election time. Teachers, parents, sectoral leaders, concerned citizens, have we inculcated in our voters the power they have come election time? It is this empowerment that should be the key in deciding according to a well-informed choice. Gone are the days when voters are given their rightful place by buying their votes.
Other countries are also holding their elections so the Philippines is not alone in telling the world that democracy is very much alive in our place. Election is a very vital sign that democracy is here to stay.
Since our homes are where we are as our real selves, teaching one's capacity to choose according to one's conscience should begin there. Thus there is no more time to lose then. Let us focus our attention on our loved ones who are now adults. Let them vote accordingly.
See you then in election centers. Let democracy take its course.
Lady teachers are deep in their hearts, Girl Scouts in thought, word and deed.
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Bukidnon Council of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines hopes to revive the hope that deep down in the hearts of all lady teachers, they are really Girl Scouts in thought, word and deed.Why not? After all the Girl Scouting Movement hopes to mold the young girls to become well-rounded talents and useful citizens of society.
This week, Teacher'steacher has been appointed as Officer-in-Charge of the office in the absence of the Council President who is presently with the girl campers in Quezon for the National Encampment. Many will transpire in the succeeding days and if every event happens, this blogger-girl scout will update you, beloved readers. In the meantime, please help out in encouraging the parents to register their girls to join the Girl Scouting Movement. This is one decision they will not regret.
We can expect more girls to become girl scouts if all lady teachers are deep in their hearts, Girl Scouts in thought, word and deed. Welcome to the fold!
Teacher, why do we celebrate birhdays? What do birthdays teach us?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 4:34 AM
It is not very difficult to understand why we have to celebrate birthdays but what do birthdays teach us may not come by easily.
We must celebrate birthdays because as the word implies you are still alive on a day that heralds your existence. What does this special occasion teach us? It teaches us that days are not always the same. There are days and there are days. Birthdays are no ordinary days for of all the days, your birthday stands out as the day that is special for the heavens chose it for you to come to this world and join mankind.
Birthdays are days of rejoicing and celebrating. No wonder the term is no longer birthday celebrant but birthday celebrator. The celebrant is a celebrator of the day when life is greater than death. What does this celebration teach us? It teaches us us how to be a celebrator of humility and gratitude that life is worth all the pain no matter how low it can get. We have to ask questions but there are moments when questions need not be asked just accepted.
So birthday celebrators, we join you in your love feasts. To Emilita, to Lucita, to Irene and to all the April birthday celebrators, let your birthdays teach you joy and joy and joy on your most significant time.
Years of marital bliss teach you why every married couple embraces life through thick and thin
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 8:37 AM
Our world today is very demanding and its technological advances cannot promise to offer the gadgets how to make it through marital blues and blows.
In fact, years of marital bliss teach every married couple the reason why they manage to embrace life through thick and thin. While the number of years being married does not become a guarantee, it can hold on to the promise that another day will be another teaching moment to improve for the better.
Let us then pat the shoulders of our colleagues who pursue the paths of righteousness and hold on to the commitment of remaining faithful no matter the odds. Why not? Every marriage is not just an affair between the husband the wife. My twenty-year marriage taught me, for example, that the bitter pill of tensions and outbursts become necessary ingredients of true love. Hold on even if left to our devices, it is unbearable. That's why there is a third party in this relationship - the Supreme Being who blesses the relationship which became a commitment blessed in God's name.
It is therefore without hesitation this teacher blogger attests that years of marital bliss teach us why every married couple embraces life through and thin.
What are some of the learning insights travels bestow on us?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 3:17 AM
Some think that to travel is to go abroad. We should know by now this is not the case. Already, life is a lifelong travel, a journey. Along the way as one poem states we reach a junction and decide whether to choose a road less traveled or follow the usual easy route.
What are some of the learning insights travels bestow on us? Many and some are: One, the mere fact of going out of our comfort zone and doing so realize that there is much more to where I am situated. Two, the temptations and decisions to be made along the way. Three, development of a grateful heart that there are more good people than bad ones. Four, the capacity to learn the ways of other people and in so doing, work with their differences and feel relieved for knowing our similarities. Five, a confirmation that life has so much more to offer and therefore there is always more to learn.
Do share your own learning insights and together learn from each other. Anyone?
How do you teach your children how to respect their aunts and ask forgiveness if there is need?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 4:04 AM
It is unfortunate but it is a reality, anywhere in the world, respect for the older ones particularly their aunts, is fast fading. Even in the Philippines which is famous for its Filipino Values, respect for the elderly as one of the most basic values, is on its down trend. This prods us to ask how do you teach your children how to respect their aunts and ask forgiveness if there is need?
Teacher'steacher considers this a fundamental problem and needs fundamental response. For one, teaching should not be seen as something that is just told to the children there and then. Teaching starts at home and is followed up in schools and in the bigger community. It goes back to the values practiced by parents and their children as they live as a family. The need to follow this up when the children go astray is constant for once the children make friends or go to school the children's need for guidance and clarification might be in order.
Sometimes when the younger people talk as though they do not have respect for the elderly, the reaction of the elders borders on desperation. Some just leave this on Karma and let life make the disrespectful ones learn the hard way. Since the elderly wants the younger ones to ask forgiveness and it is not forthcoming, the elderly can again only look up to the heavens for vindication.
No wonder we always say we are not yet in heaven and however good this earth may be, it will always fall short of what awaits us in Heaven with God. There, there is no need for respect and to ask forgiveness for there is no need. May we all see each other there fellow teachers.
To a mentor, colleague and fellow girl scout, Rest in Peace Mommy
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:21 PMYears ago, Ma'am Carmen C. Unabia came to my life. She was one of my professors and she solidified my desire to pursue teaching as my career. Many years later, she visited my life once again when she prodded me to go on with teaching and make sure to do well in the field.
When I got married she came again to my life when she inspired me to hold on to the relationship no matter what. I did, until my husband of twenty years passed away after more than a year of sickness. As a widow, Mom Carmen's words would pop in and tell me I was up to any challenge whatever it takes.
When I revived my membership with the Girl Scout Movement, she was there again as a member and an officer. Both of us received awards for serving the Bukidnon Council for the past nine years and going. Very recently, the family of Mom Carmen received an award, as a Ching clan, to acknowledge the service of the Ching family for so many years.
Now, Dr. Carmen Ching Unabia, has passed away. This afternoon, April 9, 2013, we will hold a scout's own as Girl Scout volunteers. I am requested to give some words of testimonial because everybody knows how she has become part of my maturation and development as a person. While I am not yet sure what I will say, this blog will already tell you, fellow teachers, the great respect I have for Mommy.
To you Mommy, I think you can read this now wherever you are, like my husband Boni whom you have met, you embodied the Girl Scout Promise and Law:
On my honor, I will do my duty, to God and my country
to help other people at all times and
to live by the Girl Scout Law.
Mommy, God speed. Your Life is what we want to achieve when our time comes. God be with you. Rest in the Peace that God is giving you now. We miss so but we know you can be with us anytime anywhere now that God has given you the reward of eternal life.
Pain is a very good teacher of life's genuine challenge to see the joy just waitingto be unveiled.
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:22 AM
Families are complex groups of people. If not for the truth that when everything comes to pass, only God knows who is truly genuine and deserving of eternal happiness with Him in his Kingdom.
Having said the aforementioned context, pain is a very good teacher of life's genuine challenge to see the joy just waiting to be unveiled. Take the case of a relative who went out of her way to take into her fold a niece who has nowhere to go. She has children to take care of, so to be in a foreign country is like living in desert. Developed countries have this standard of living to mind your own business. Unless you happen to have neighbors with big hearts, you are really on your own This nice lady however is a christian and as it happened the young mother with children stayed in her apartment for months. Then came the time when the young mother borrowed cash which amounted to a huge sum but trusting that if better times come as agreed upon, she would be paid.
Then the time came when the mom and kids have to leave for after all there is a father who is supposed to contribute his share of feeding the kids. It seemed the mother got a job and life must have smiled brightly because they did not go back to their aunt's place. Without pointing out all the details, complexity arose when there was miscommunication in relaying manifestations of concern. It happened that the aunt who helped not only the mom with children but also a sibling who is sick with capital C. In the complex web of life's realities, the young mom happens to be the daughter of the sibling-brother. The culprit was the relayed information that it looked like the children of the sick sibling were blamed for not taking care of the capital C. The aunt who sent help seemed to be alluded as saying the children were instrumental in letting the condition become dangerous. All along what the aunt wanted to say was to ask why was the condition not observed early enough and why did not everybody prevent it to happen. Nobody was supposed to be blamed.
So now the state of affairs is the complex entanglement of who said what to whom. Now we offer to the best listener the intricacy of all the data and pray that one day, the real culprit is humble enough to apologize.
Pain is a very good teacher of life's genuine challenge to see the joy just waiting to be unveiled.
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