Getting your child in school mode after a long break

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/04/2020

January 2 may have been the first day that majority work force got back to  their daily grind but January 6 is when pandemonium will really break lose.  Traffic situation in northern Cebu, particularly in the towns…

Happy New Year and Viva Pit Señor!

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/28/2019

I learned about my twin pregnancy on 12/12/12.  It looks like the kind of date that an airline or an online shopping store will dive right in and execute a crazy sale blitz.  In my case, I…

Joy to your homes

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/21/2019

Mothers reach their tipping point somewhere along the road of being superwoman, who appears to have everything under control. I reached mine on a Thursday night when I came home at 11:58 p.m. to a daughter who…

The essence of pageantry

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/14/2019

Let us talk about beauty pageants and what it means to young women in this modern world.  When it is Miss Universe season, I drop off everything to focus on the competition. It has been the case…

Technology and children

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/07/2019

One of my close friends called me on a busy Friday evening to tell me that she was “very disturbed.” She was having dinner with her six-year-old daughter when she asked, out of the blue, what the…

Limiting screen time

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/30/2019

How do you make sure that your children are not spending too much time with their gadgets? This is the question that a mother asked me while I was waiting for my daughter to emerge from a…

Shared responsibility

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/23/2019

The issue involving teacher Melita Limjuco, whose disciplinary action to her pupil allegedly traumatised the child, hit me on three fronts: as a journalist, as a mother and as a teacher. A media personality is in the…

Nanay Says: Mr. John

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/16/2019

We were eagerly waiting for them to arrive inside one of the classrooms of Fudan University in Shanghai, China.  It was not the first time for us, scholars of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF) China Scholarship Program,…

Do you worry about money?

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 11/09/2019

“Do you worry about money, Mom?”  This is the question that my six-year-old son asked me on a Friday morning while I was halfway between sleep and consciousness.  The boy just entered the master’s bedroom after three…

This climb for Malu

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/02/2019

BUKIDNON – – The acrid smell of disappointment filled the air when the coordinator officially announced that all six trails leading to the Mount Apo National Park are closed.  The final decision came after a magnitude 6.5…

Unidentified foreign object

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 10/26/2019

I’ve never been to a tour around Cebu City since I was in kindergarten back in 1991. Back then, my entire class was taken to the Cebu City Zoo for a field trip. I felt very special…

Water and trees

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 10/19/2019

There was a special smell in the air that day much like the sweet aroma of pine trees in Baguio City that I used to imagine to see in person while watching movies on television. It was…

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