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Computer Games Bring Out the Best and the Worst in Your Child

1/21/2016

My son Colin who is 11 years old is really good at playing League of Legends. He is so good that his friends are willing to pay him to play their accounts. Colin loves it when he is on top of his game. He high fives his friends and grins from ear to ear. I see him mentoring his younger brother on how to improve in the game. He is generally a helpful young man when his game is good.

But since League of Legends is a game of team work, he needs other players to work with him, and when his team mates don't play as well, that's when Colin loses his temper and goes beast mode.

He yells at his friend or brother, calls them "weak!" and types on his keyboard but sounds like he's hitting it. It is the same when he is using the mouse. I call him out regarding his behaviour and I see him make a scowling face.

This morning I am greeted by Colin and his big brother arguing over a game. Apparently Colin has left the game without finishing it because he was sick of his brother not playing as good as he is. His brother was upset that Colin was not a good sport. Losing his cool, big brother gave up, went to his room and slammed the door shut.

What's a mother to do in this case?

Ground them.

Ground them from playing anymore League of Legends until they get their attitudes straight.

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When work is like play

2/10/2015

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I am working on a startup business at the moment while homeschooling my kids. I now love the feeling of being able to create something and playing around with it. It's not all fun and games, there are times I don't feel like working on my website, or opening my emails or clicking on "learn more" links so I could understand how the heck Google Analytics work.. I'm really not techy, but I have a passion to learn. It is my wish my children will do the same or better when it comes to love for creativity and entrepreneurship.

My kids would distract me 5 times every hour... so that's like every 12 minutes on average. They would ask me to play a movie for them, for something to eat, for a definition or spelling of a word, for clarification in the workbook exercise I've just given them, if they can take a break. Oh and the list goes on.

So it just dawned on me as I write this, now that I've written down my structured work WEEK, maybe now I should write down my structured work DAY - so that my kids can see when they can ask me questions, that they have to wait a whole hour before they ask for my attention again. Kind of like when you're playing a hidden object game and you want to use the hint option but you have to wait another 30 minutes once you've used up your 3 hints in a row...

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
I'm learning to break things down into smaller pieces. With 4 kids to homeschool, a startup business, ongoing businesses on the side and deadlines to meet, it can get overwhelming to the point of wanting to quit.

And with that I leave you with this Ted Talk video of Sir Ken Robinson that I came across from reading Penelope Trunk's blog this morning. He makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

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Raise A Kind-Hearted Child

1/26/2015

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"Nanay, I forgive you...," said Haley.

I turn and see her face her eyes are tearing up. I say: thank u for forgiving me... Why are you forgiving me? This is the first time she said she forgave me without my having asked for forgiveness. I don't even know what I did!

"Nilaksan mo ung boses mo kanina," (You raised your voice at me a while ago) her 4-year-old voice breaking up as she talked, "but I forgive you very much."

Then I remembered how I told her to stop putting her fingers in her mouth. I was annoyed but I hadn't even realized that I'd raised my voice!

How cute that Haley has developed this wonderful character trait. It was not my original intention to teach her this.

I had picked up from homeschooling blogs and seminars that we as parents should ask our children for forgiveness when we commit mistakes. So I began doing it whenever I forgot things I said I would do for my kids, whenever I lose my temper and such.

"Do you forgive me?" I would say. When Haley did not know how to respond at first, I used to ask her to repeat after me "Say: Yes, I forgive you nanay."

From there she learned. But it's amazing how she seemed to evolve. From being able to simply respond, she now understands an abstract concept that most people find hard to do in their mature years.

There is beauty in a child who knows how to forgive and I pray she will continue to grow with a kind heart.

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Starting the Year

1/9/2015

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04 Jan 2015, Southwoods City, Binan, Laguna at 6am

This photo was taken on a Monday, while most people were starting to go back to work in the office or school, handyman decided to do something together as a family to kick off the year. Jogging and biking together, nothing fancy. Just one of those peaceful moments.

I was going to title this post Starting the Year Right but then I thought how do I know I have done right? What's important is that things got started. Get the ball rolling.

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Delegate. You don't have to be alone.

8/18/2014

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Where am I at three months later?

- I'm still an insurance adviser of life insurance and investment-linked products.
- I'm still a visa consultant for people wanting to travel or study to Australia.
- I'm still running the real estate family corporation and have been able to buy an investment under the corporation's name.
- I'm still selling natural and organic cosmetic products by Human Nature.

Now how do I say this without sounding like I'm full of myself:

That is what you call having multiple streams of income.

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