Mothers, Daughters, Rape, and Abortion
Image: Liana Mikah You've seen all the articles on abortion going around. You've seen all the pro-choice and pro-life arguments. I'm addressing this to the mom who has daughters, wondering if she could counsel her daughter to keep a child, should her daughter get...
Remembering Papa
My earliest memory of Papa is of him sitting on the side of his and mommy’s bed, in the early morning hours when it was still dark, praying. He left all of us a legacy of faith. It was at his side I learned how to sing the Filipino Pasion, which according to...
I Need to Write Again
I haven't written regularly since July of last year. February was my last blog post. Somewhere along the way, I thought, maybe July would be a great time to start again. But here I am. I've made notes upon notes in my planner of topics I want to write about, and...
Q&A: How should we, as atheist parents, talk to our kids about god and religion?
Answering as a Catholic here. 🙂 Even people raised religious have to own their faiths at some point. Every religious person at some point in their life questions why they believe what they believe, and whether they will continue believing, or question more, or stop....
Life Begins at Conception
This was a compilation I put together in 2012 for our homeschooling group. ----- in case it helps. some references. At the moment when a human sperm penetrates a human ovum, or egg, generally in the upper portion of the Fallopian Tube, a new entity comes...
A Character Report Card for Catholic Homeschoolers
We’ve been using this character report card sporadically for a while now. We updated it recently so we can use it with the 9-year-old who needs this kind of guidance and self-monitoring at this time. So I thought I’d share with other homeschoolers who might be able to...
Even Sporadic NFP Use Has Many Untold Benefits
Image: Liv BruceMy husband and I were one of those Catholic couples who got married not knowing about Natural Family Planning (NFP). We planned to have kids right away and were ultimately shooting for six kids (five for a basketball team and one “extra” for a sub). By...
#MeToo, In the Time of 50 Shades and GoT?
Image: Samuel Zeller Last week, Alyssa Milano reignited a decade-old campaign to raise awareness of the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault. Her tweet resonated with millions. But while the problem is global and pervasive, and our hearts are broken for...
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What Nino Read July 2017
I haven't been keeping track of Nino's reading the past couple of months. He had asked for a vacation from school this year as he realized that his siblings were officially off school. So far the summer has been spent pretty much the same way the school year is spent:...
How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum
Image: Thought Catalog It’s that time of year — the most exciting, for every DIY homeschooler mom!! It’s curriculum-designing time. We’ve been homeschooling for ~18 years so I’m way more confident now than I was years ago when I first tried to do this. Back then,...
Why do parents find it bad if their children fall in love in high school?
You’ll have to define “bad”. Bad = not thinking things through, operating on emotion alone, allowing oneself to be in situations where one could make bad decisions that one will most likely regret later, e.g., think sex or drugs or alcohol. Learning to love is...
Did young children in previous eras have tantrums like today’s toddlers?
All toddlers throw tantrums. The reasons may be different, the manner and intensity of the tantrum may be different, but toddlers throw tantrums because they're testing the limits. The parents’ response will partly determine whether the child matures or stays a...
Why don’t Republicans care that Trump never spends time with Barron, his 10 year old son?
You're assuming that he doesn't. You're also assuming that IF Republicans knew that for a fact that they won't care. Perhaps reframe your question to one that's not loaded, unless you don't have a sincere desire to dialogue. Originally posted at Quora.
What Nino Read, April 2017
Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment Viking Raiders The Wishing-Chair Collection Draw Really Cool Stuff Space (DK Eyewitness) Knute Rockne (COFA) Cleopatra Spider The Greenleaf Guide to Ancient Egypt How to Draw Spider-Man Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (for...