On January 23, Mommy Mundo, in collaboration with #BabyDovePH, launched its first event of the year: A New Way To Be: How to Evolve. Led by Kit Malvar Llamas and T. Jeannie Castillo, this timely talk imparted valuable lessons and reminders on how we can transform ourselves and our family relationships for the better.
Establishing Self-Learning at Home (Especially During Distance Learning)
In your children’s current set-up of distance learning, self-learning is an important skill to develop. Self-learning is when your children grasp and understand concepts, put their lessons into practice to solve a problem, and retain information—all on their own.
Five Must Haves for the WFH Mom
Many companies have fully transitioned and adjusted their office operations to include (or in some cases solely be) home-based work. In turn, many moms have adjusted their lives to this new way of working and being–mom + career woman 24/7 and all in one place. For those of us who haven’t yet adjusted or are still looking for best practices, Mommy Mundo has come up with the five must-haves for work-from-home moms, based on what we’ve heard from our mom community!
The Conflict Between Plantation Bay Resort & Children With Special Needs
The recent social media storm that rallied behind Mai Pages against an insensitive post by a resident shareholder of Plantation Bay has brought a spotlight to the community of parents of children with autism. The uproar forced Plantation Bay’s Manny Gonzalez to retract his initial insensitive post on Tripadvisor and apologise to the special needs community as well as all parents and parties offended by his words.
Conscious Parenting Recap: Drop the Shoulds!
In Conscious Parenting’s December session, Kit encouraged parents to “drop the shoulds” or to be aware of what expectations we are placing on our children, and how these expectations might actually be what we had expected from our inner children or from our own parents when we were growing up. Yes, what we think should be isn’t necessarily what is healthiest or best for our children!
Baby Dove: Baby Care for Daddies
During a special Baby Dove sponsored event, Dr. Miguel Villanueva, a general pediatrician trained in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, talked about Baby Care for Daddies, presenting dads with three main points all dads need to keep in mind.
Baby Hugs: How Your Baby Learns About the World
This November, Mommy Mundo and Huggies Philippines collaborated to bring to the platform a special presentation and discussion on the topic of how babies learn about the world. Guest speaker and Montessori teacher, Ghia Curtis, talked about sensory development and how what babies learn is directly related to their senses and to honing those senses. A period of massive learning from sensory development and honing happens from the ages of zero to six.
MomSchool Recap! Conscious Parenting: Helping Siblings Get Along
In Conscious Parenting’s November session, Kit took parents through an important topic: helping siblings get along! Any parent with more than one child knows the ups and downs of sibling rivalry, sibling disagreements, and fights. Many of those who worry the most are the ones who had it the worst, those in constant power struggles with their siblings (some lasting well into adulthood).
