Pinoy Humor

I was asking my friend about his opinion of Supertyphoon Paeng and riding on the popularity of Sandro's meme, this is what he said:

Flood is strong not because flood is strong. Flood is strong because the leader is WEAK.

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Parents are the ultimate role models.

Your children need your "PRESENCE" more than your "PRESENTS".

Values Are Caught ... And Taught

How the child was brought up and raised is the sum total of what he observed and see in his parents. And whatever values he had was influenced by them and will be "carried over" when he becomes an adult.

Children can't just show he is responsible or kind without having seen those act of kindness from their parents or someone else. They may have understood important concepts like working hard or saving for a rainy day or giving importance to finishing college and obeying rules ... without someone setting the example. Parents become a model-of-sort in their child's life, they must have done a lot of teaching and explaining and the child imbibes these values until they become the child's moral framework and architecture.

Parenting

Values are things we prefer or give importance to.  Honesty is a value and so is teaching an impressionable mind (of the children) the worth and importance of honoring dead loved ones.

The values are "CAUGHT" and not "TAUGHT". Meaning the value of remembering our grandparents on All Saint's Day is better learned by the examples set by parents by watching them live out on November 1st and not by doing lectures.

Values are part of the child's life experience. If parents attempt to lecture why we need to go to the cemetery to honor our loved ones ... well, they are good values all right ... but not totally the children. 

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All Sant's Day, just like Christmas and New Year are one of the rare times  when Filipino family gather together, go to Church together to honor dead members of the family, and go to the cemeteries together to offer flowers and prayers to their loves ones.

But times have changed, and the new generation has its own definition of what All Sant's Day is all about. For a close-knit and cohesive family gone are the days when families come in grooves or they arrive in the cemetery in strong force.  Kanya kanya na ang lakad ngayon.

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ABS CBN, GMA, and TV 5 should be commended and applauded for their nonstop updates on Typhoon Paeng. Sadly hard-hit areas that are hard to reach were not prepared for Paeng's fury, and sad to say the INFORMATION GAP is real. 

These remote areas missed the warnings they usually get from ABS CBN pre-franchise denial days. Only ABS CBN has the ability and the capacity to reach these remote areas.