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Absolute Distilled Water’s Absolutely Inspiring Mom For Others Awards

Absolute Pure Distilled Drinking Water recognized five women who are not only not only great moms to their own families successful on their chosen career but also devoted time to help others. The event was held at Museum Cafe in Greenbelt. Absolute Mom herself, Judy Ann Santos- Agoncilllo were there to hand the award to the five chosen Absolute Moms. Judy Ann, like the five chosen moms, is a truly, absolutely inspiring mom for others. She started her very own foundation, Touch A Heart Foundation, in celebration of her 20th year in the show business. The Touch A Heart Foundation helps in securing the future of children in the Aeta community of Orion Bataan. If I remembered it correctly, Judy Anne worked with the Aetas not just once so I guess that’s why the community is very close to heart.

The five chosen mom that received the Absolute Distilled Water’s Absolutely Inspiring Mom For Others Awards are:

Cathy Babao, founder of Migi’s Corner and The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) Awardee. She was chosen as one of the awardee for her inspiring work of transforming her grief over the loss of her son into a lifetime mission through Migi’s Corner. A foundation that has established play areas in over 10 public hospitals in the country.

Risa de los Angeles, the leader and mentor of the Youth for a United World of Focolare. She was chosen because of her exemplary service in helping the less privileged. She involves her entire family in the youth programs of the Focolare

Patricia Bermudez-Hizon, sportscaster and host who opened her house to fort he House of Refuge Orphanage during the typhoon Ondoy. She is very active in Everyday Is Your Birthday Foundation, which she founded 12 years ago.

Pia Magalona, the wife of late Master Rapper Francis Magalona. She was chosen for her work as the Chairperson of the Francis Magalona Foundation. A foundation that helps transform the lives of public high school students in order to instill Filipino pride. Pia is also hands on mom to her 8 kids.

Tessa Prieto-Valdez, fashion icon, tri-athlete and columnist, chosen because of her charity work with the Assumption High School Batch 81 Foundation.

Absolute Distilled Drinking Water gave a cash donation to each awardee’s charity of choice.

During the event, Inspiration Speaker Ms Maribel Dionisio of Love Institute gave a talk on language of Love. She mentioned how we can give love by first knowing what language of love people around us needs.

Judy Ann Santos- Agoncillo despite her busy schedule and career demands, happily takes the challenging role of being a wife and a mother. As a segurista mom, Judy Ann chose Absolute Pure Distilled Drinking Water because it has gone through a high quality distillation process which is why it is certified by the National Sanitation Foundation Intl, International Bottled Water Association and the FDA.

As a sigurista mom like Judy Ann, I also trust Absolute Pure Distilled Drinking Water, and buy it for my family’s consumption.

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Practical Parenting Tip On Helping Your Child/Children Improve Their School Grades

It was never my intention to pressure my kids into getting honors, but I guess being on the top is in their blood (err, as much as I want to take the credits, they got it from their dad.. creativity’s my department, not logic teehee). Of course, I want them to have as much high grades as they can get and to let them know their limit and how much they can do. Actually, for the last school years, I have been experimenting with them, there were times that I don’t even help them with their assignments, not that I don’t care but I want to see how much they can do without my help and there are times that I help them and see how much they can improve with my help. Because of my experiments with them, I have learned their limits and how to push them a little more. I also learned how to teach them and help them effectively. As a parent, I think it is always an advantage to observe your child so that you will learn how to address their needs.

This coming school year, let me give you tips on how to help your child with their academics and what you can do to help your child/children improve their grades.

Know your kid’s learning style. There are many different learning styles coming from different models. Fleming’s VAK model suggests that there are 3 styles in learning, namely:

visual learners
auditory learners
kinesthetic learners

Visual Learners are those who learns through seeing. Think abut photos, visual aides, diagrams, reading etc. They have a high use for sense of sight.

Auditory Learners are those who prefers hearing or listening a subject matter. They learn through lectures, discussions and those that involves the use of sense of hearing.

Kinesthetic Learners are those who learn via experience. Information are easily remembered if they got to explore it. Kinesthetic learners uses sense of touch, taste and smell.

Observe you child and try to know how they remember things easily. Based on my experiences and observations, boys are mostly visual learners or kinesthetic learners and girls are more of auditory learners. So when I teach my boys, I always use visual aides (and my friends knows that!), I take time writing their lessons on cartolinas and taping it on our walls and I also make reviewers with lots of photos.

By knowing how your kid/s learn, you will know how to teach them. Do they need visual aides? or they prefer that you discuss their assignments/ lessons with you?

Establish/develop a study habit. After class, with or without assignments, practice your child to sit and study for at least 30 minutes to an hour until they develop a habit. This will be helpful not only in improving your kid/s school grade but as well as in their future. Developing a study habit for your kid will teach them discipline.

To effectively establish or develop study habit, take into consideration the study place. It has to be without much distraction such as TV or toys. If at first your kid is against the idea or does not show enthusiasm with it, use the reward method.

Challenge your child. Kids are well know for pleasing their parents. Challenge your child /children to do more in school. Talk to them about their academics. Let them know how much you expect from them. Of course, you have to be careful with this so as not to put too much pressure on your child. And yes, reward systems works!

Boost your child’s confidence. Nothing beats the hug and kiss of a mother to boost your child/children confidence. It also helps if you will be careful on criticizing them. Use of words that are degrading should be avoided too, use encouraging words instead. Of course, letting them know that you support them in whatever they do or whatever score they got, is another way to boost their confidence.

This coming school year will be more challenging for me as I will not be only tutoring my 2 school boys, I will also be homeschooling my 2 toddlers. I have tried homeschooling with my first born but patience gets in the way.. this school year, I am ready to face this challenge and you will expect to hear more school related and home schooling related articles.

Mother’s Day Hand Card From Safeguard

What kind of card did you received last Mother’s Day? mine was a simple hug and thank yous from my kids. I heard that young students from Little President’s Learning Palace in San Miguel, Manila gave a very special Mother’s Day card to their moms!

Little President’s Learning Palace together with Safeguard hold a Mother’s Day Hand Card Activity for their student. The young students were given a Safeguard Hand Card Kit which contained envelopes, coloring materials, and Safeguard soap. They decorated the envelope with the art supplies included in the kit then they washed their hand using Safeguard.

After washing, the students slipped their hand on the slot on the envelope and presented the envelopes to their moms. And when the mom opened the envelope, they saw their kid’s clean hands and a message from Safeguard:

“The best card you can give mom is a clean hand.”

Indeed! the best thing a mom can hope for is an assurance that their kids are protected from germs because of their clean hands. How clean sweet is that?