This kid’s heartwarming arcade gesture is spreading good vibes online

Immae Lachica 10/03/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines—A kid’s act of kindness in an arcade in General Santos City is melting hearts online. Matthieus Jan Laurent Java, who is three years old, showed how amazing he was raised by the people around…

Generation app

Fatima Ignacio Gimenez - @inquirerdotnet 10/03/2022

You just don’t get it.” Spoken or unspoken by both the parent and the child, why do both parties experience constant choppy and dead spots? Are we both constantly out of range that our lines of communication…

The age of innocence

Jeff Ruffolo 03/29/2017

TAKE a look at that face! This is the face of innocence—a young boy without guile. My three-year-old son knows nothing about credit cards, online dating, or paying the mortgage for our Casa Ruffolo Uno home each…

Of kids, failure and success

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 02/04/2017

Businessman, family man Francis Kong shares parenting tips to parents, teachers “Allow your children to experience failure.” This was one of the parenting tips that inspirational speaker Francis Kong shared to parents and teachers who attended his…

Date nights

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 10/28/2016

NEW YORK — The plane landed on John F. Kennedy International Airport after a 15-hour flight from Guangzhou on board a Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft of China Southern Airlines. Unlike the June 2016 flight from Los Angeles…

Parenting vs Parenthood

Francis B. Ongkingco 11/14/2015

A few generations ago parenting manuals were unheard of. Today, walk into any bookstore or scan any magazine stand and you will see it decked with materials on how to raise one’s kids. With global and national…

Fil-Am traces roots to Cebu

Apple Ta-as 06/28/2015

Filipino-American James Beni Wilson spent most of his 25 years wondering about his real parents. As an adopted child growing up in Michigan, USA, he was teased by playmates about his brown skin. “I always thought that…

Iris Castillo-Cular: Finding meaning in motherhood

Orly J. Cajegas, Rob Gonzales 05/10/2015

The essence of a woman, paraphrasing Miss Universe 1993 Sushmita Sen, is being a mother.  1992 Miss Teen Cebu City and 1993 Miss Cebu Tourism Iris Jasmin Castillo-Cular knows this too well. Gifted with a loving husband,…

Daughter turns cold and distant

Belle Grandea 11/02/2014

Dear Ms. Belle, My daughter used to be a sweet little girl, a loving child to her Papa and me. She is the eldest of four children and has three brothers. When she turned 15 and in…

Mom creates app to force kids to return parent’s calls

08/18/2014

Is this an invasion of the kids’ privacy or a method of strict but good parenting? A mother in the United States has developed a mobile application (app) that guarantees kids will answer their parents’ texts and…

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