Each child should be FREE FROM PERNICIOUS INFLUENCES … which cultivates DESIRABLE TRAITS & ATTRIBUTES. They should be provided with experiences that would STRENGTHEN their CHARACTER as A CHILD.
In the midst of SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION where kids and parents are both challenged to BE RESPONSIBLE “respondents”, WHAT COULD BE OUR PART?
How do we ensure that we provide an ATMOSPHERE OF MORALITY?
What do you think would this image want to tell us? How do you personally relate to it ?
THE SCHOOL BECOMES A REHABILITATION CENTER? Looking into the Developmental Psychology of the Child from Birth to Adolescence, some important ISSUES may have to be regarded “already at-risk”.
The child, whom at certain stage cannot identify right from wrong would naturally need some “remedy” — YET, there are times when some of them cannot find the “right medicine” … BUT Why?
Let’s PONDER-ON this, as we thrive through our partnership with the parents of every child. We would of course understand & find “good ways-&-means” from our end to mend & meet some shortcomings which some “homes” are not able to extend to some kids — but IT SHOULD BE MORE OF: we should BE THE REMEDY that our pupils/students, as well as “their parents” need — when through this, they should “hear from us” why & what should better be done. 🙂
Since September 5 to October 5 is a Celebration of National TEACHERS’ Month, I’ve been receiving thoughtful messages from my Basic Ed High School students years back, until this ONE REMARKABLE message popped up in my Messenger:
“Salamat po Ma’am Gail, I kept earning my plus-points!”
…made me recall when I would give my students “100 points” to represent a 100% grade in some components of their grade in their Values Education Subject. They would love “starting-over-again” every grading period because instead of me telling them “back-to-zero”, I would gladly announce that their grade-opportunity is “back-to-100%” — which they have to “manage well” within the quarter.
How? … At the start of each grading period, I would give them few minutes to clean-up & organize their responsibility zones: Journals[notebook], lockers, bags & of course their entire classroom set up, including a new seat plan. As we set-off spic-&-span, “all prepared” for the quarter, they would automatically get their 100pts. Although there were some instances when they would get “minus points” because they naturally mess-up on some instances & fail to keep things in order just before I would do some “surprise-random-checks & visits”, but then, they would strive to re-organize their personal zones — so that they could “re-EARN” for their previous remaining points when I give them several “plus points” – which varied according to the extent of the effort that they have personally exerted – without comparing each of their creativity & effort to that of the others.
I did not earn that much 20 years ago as a full time high school teacher; I kind’a level up a bit in my current pay as a part-time Professor to Masteral Students every Saturday – but still, not that much as of yet; not so sure if I already would, until I finish my Doctorate Degree — pero ‘yong ipaalam sayo na “malaki ang naging contribution mo” in the life of one of your students dahil sa “maliit na bagay” at simpleng sistema na ipinaranas mo sa kanila, it’s MORE THAN FULFILLING na tumatanggap ka ng PAGTANAW NG UTANG NA LOOB — kasi, napatunayan mo na “dahil hindi mo ipinagdamot ang 100% na opportunity, ITINUTULOY NILA na ma-SUSTAIN ang 100% na kaya din nilang ibigay.
Naisip ko lang, isa lang si “Marc Jess” sa mga students na naging “devoted” na palaguin ang pagkakataon ng ibinigay sa kanya, pero sobrang saya na sa pakiramdam – as in!
How much more kung icoconsider pa natin ang iba pa na mga naging successful students ng mga “My Teacher, My Hero” nationwide – at kung ang lahat ng pasasalamat na ito ang ibabalik natin to OUR GREAT TEACHER: the CORNERSTONE OF OUR STRENGTH and ALL THAT WE HAVE – ilang “plus points” kaya ang pwedeng paulanin sa atin ni God dahil sa SOBRA-sobrang magigigng masaya Sya dahil we gave the right amount of FAITHFULNESS SUKLI sa pagiging generous nya?
We are but tenant in God’s Vineyard — with all the 100% OPPORTUNITY that we could grab! Katulad ng isang Marc Jess na nakaramdam ng pasasalamat kaya ‘di kinailangang i-compare ang sarili sa kung anong portion ng vineyard ang napunta sa kanya, 100% nya ding sinuklian ang chance na ibinigay sa kanya – kaya ngayon, “he keeps on earning his rewards” … ang secret, he devotedly taught his “ear” to LISTEN with the wisdom coming from the Holy & the Teacher : H+ear+T = he listened with the HEART!
Happy National Teachers’ Month po sa lahat ng teachers IN A BIGGER CLASSROOM called LIFE!
How do you feel right now?
Have you ever noticed that you are at times impulsive or are you aware that sometimes you are “unpredictable”?
Well if not, and if you really don’t mind about it, let me tell you now that it’s not something you just have to shrug your shoulders about!
Ancient Greek medicine believed that the above-mentioned “inclinations” could be considered as possible “illness” due to an imbalance in the four types of body fluids: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
It should be A CHALLENGE FOR US to SELF-REGULATE those body fluids and find the “right blending”.
A person’s PERSONALITY can be characterized by ONE HUMOR – thus the so called TEMPERAMENT which is medically defined as our HABITUAL INCLINATIONS or our mode of EMOTIONAL RESPONSES.
We didn’t understand this when we were still young – that’s why, many of us are not aware that OUR FAILURE OR WEAKNESS TO MODIFY our TEMPERAMENTS are actually the RISKS that we are continually creating to hinder building HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIPS. – why? – because “that very moment when we THROW an IMPULSE, could cause A DOMINO EFFECT”!
“That SHOUTING that you did to a CHILD could create an IMPACT which could be a dangerous part that would make up her Personality!” — at least one of the COMMON DANGERS which we are not so aware of.
http://centerforparentingeducation.org/ states: “Temperament is the part of the Unique Child that refers to the fact that all children are born into this world with their own individualized blueprints for reacting to the world around them. Based on a thirty-year study begun in 1956, temperament explains why some children are very easy-going while others tend to be more challenging for parents. Sometimes you hear these challenging children being called “difficult” or spirited; this is often because they have temperamental traits that make them more demanding to parent.
We may be that one “demanding child” back then or maybe until now; BUT HEY, we are no longer kids at this point!
PONDER on the “triggering concepts” in the following slides and BEGIN MAKING THE DIFFERENCE!
Note to my “bright & gorgeous students”: you may just choose a minimum of three [3] questions/concepts to PONDER-ON — those which you can relate the most 🙂
Credits to:
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=241
http://personality-testing.info/tests/4T.php. This is a personality test of the four Ancient Greek temperaments.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temperament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tba0bjevwfI
What if one day you will no longer remember, have you ever wondered what your loved ones would “see in your heart”?
The things that we do now, events that we plan about, gestures & acts of concern, appreciation & gratitude that we’ve always intended to give at this point in time … any of these might be “what they will see “in there” — good news is, WE CAN START TRAINING OURSELVES “RIGHT NOW” while we’re not sure UNTIL WHEN we could.
IF we CAN PLAN to be with others for quite some time for enjoyment, why not ALSO PLAN TO BE WITH THE PERSONS WHO COULD BE THERE WITH US FOR A LIFETIME?
Let us not wait for the time when the person who have done things for us, can no longer do and enjoy “a lot with us” because we kept on saying “there will be time for that…!”
VIDEO CREDITS: http://www.wimp.com/
https://plus.google.com/111650383278180869270/posts/XCUL6BsHPLv
Would you mind taking into consideration that it would take … NOT THE BEST — rather an “influential teacher” to make THE LEARNER LOVE “LEARNING”?
From SIMPLE TO COMPLEX, Psychological Foundation of Education suggests that there is the need to look-into THE LEARNER all throughout his levels of development from Infancy to Old-Age.
Probing into the fulfillment of his Biological & Physiological needs, The Learner should be provided various amounts of experiences to help him reach a certain level wherein he should be able to perform some developmental tasks until Maturation is attained.
Although development could naturally be sequential/chronological, the rate of improvement could possibly be different in every individual due to Heredity and Environment — which brings about INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES.
However, despite such disparities, each Learner is naturally endowed with Positive Attitude such as: Curiosity, Persistence & Responsibility coupled with their “innate” Ability, Aptitude, Attitude & Interest.
Danger is … when “The Teacher” is not equipped with some amount of CREATIVITY to address certain difficult episodes — just because he did not take time to take into consideration his students’ individual characteristics and differences in developmental levels.
As I’ve previously conceptualized, “Not many would consider looking at the learner and its kind before going through the many strategies which a teacher can utilize.” Learning who the Learner Is”, should be an integral factor to consider for a teacher to succeed in the kind of experience he could create in each of his Learner! https://plus.google.com/111650383278180869270/posts/XCUL6BsHPLv
Thus, we should, in one way or the other, help ourselves become “influential” by “pondering-on” these:
Sabi nila, “Money is the root of all evil!”
… but not until we could reflect on today’s gospel: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard.
11When they received their pay [as they expected to receive more],
they began to grumble against the landowner…
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend.
Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius?
14 Take your pay and go! I want to give the one who was hired last, the same as I gave you.
Question: Paano ba tayo “TUMATANGGAP” kapag may nagbibigay sa atin???
Isn’t it that we are most of the time “unaware” of the manifestations of our actions kasi may mga dala-dala tayong “baggage” na galing pa sa “kung saan” at ‘di na ma-identify “kung kailan” pa natin ito sinumulang dalhin!??
Ang mahirap … ‘yong binibigyan ka na nga, pero di mo ‘yon matanggap ng tama — na dapat sana ay may kasamang “pasasalamat”pero ‘ni hindi mo masabi kasi “doon ka nakatingin sa kung ano ang ibinigay sa iba” – kaya ayan tuloy, “feeling mo INAAPI KA!”
‘Yong TOTOO: “EVIL roots up when we don’t strive to LIVE in accordance to God’s will!” – that is: when we Self-Indulge in-Negativity – we S-I-N!
“Nakakatanggap ka naman pero ang sabi mo “di ka napapasaya” ng mga taong nagbibigay sayo – alam mo kung bakit?
— kasi “JEALOUS” ka at pilit mong ayaw tingnan ang mga bagay na dapat mong makita!”
There is ENVY when the Self capitalizes on the “I”-“me”-“myself” tendencies. We plunge too much into our “desire” to get what we want, resentful over what others have — to the point of being too demanding of attention from the people whom we thought are the ones responsible for our happiness — and before we knew it, we no longer discern that we are already making ourselves guilty of COVETOUSNESS.
We are all workers in God’s vineyard!
Our labour should be “of love” — when we intend to “extend understanding” and “let live” like the generous landowner!
While we work, we may have “baggages” which may be DANGEROUS and may hinder us from fulfilling our “sense of satisfaction”. Let’s check it out and unload the unnecessary – for it not to be the root of UNFORTUNATE events in our life!
So friend, nakakarelate ka po ba?
God wants to repair your past … kaya nandyan pa din yong mga tao whom He assigned TO MISSION OUT ON YOU – if you will only open up your heart to such intention, you will never have to mis-interpret every bit of “striving hard” na ginagawa nila — dahil “PARA SAYO YON!”
Mahal na mahal ka ni God, “CHOOSY KA PA!”
YOU WILL NEVER APPRECIATE UNLESS YOU “LOOK-INTO-WHAT YOU ARE RECEIVING”
Yong pagiging “self-centered” mo, dapat “thing of the past na yan”!
STRIVE TO MOVE-ON KA NAMAN! We don’t have forever, reminder lang po!
DANGEROUS YA’AN if you will continue capitalizing on your “I” in the middle of S & N!
photo credit: http://keeptencommandments.info/
We Can Heal our Own Pain! by: Gail S. Montero
Feel God’s Message in Today’s Gospel: John 3:13-17
What about some “self-talk” at this point?
Galit ka kasi nagtatampo ka? … since when? At bakit ka naman po nagtampo? – “tampo lang” ba or “galit na” kasi nagtagal na?
How many times did you have such kind of feeling? UNTIL WHEN do you plan to hold on to that “grudge” within you?
‘yong totoo … how many times na ‘yong sama ng loob mo, inalagaan mo …Pero what about ‘yong sakit ng damdamin na na-create mo sa iba dahil di mo sila napakinggan dyan sa puso mo?
Sabi mo “GUSTO MO NA MAGING MASAYA!”??? Eh what did you do? What part did you take? — MAKE-UP? or BREAK-UP?
“Lord, sana they will understand me!” – OR – “Lord, sana I will understand them!” – alin dito ang prayer mo?
Ang maintindihan tayo, at ang tayo ang umintindi; ‘yong magpatawad tayo, at tayo ‘yong humingi ng tawad kasi nagpakumbaba tayo – this, supposedly will HEAL WHATEVER PAIN! – pero ‘still difficult if one or the other does not want to go down to the level of reconciliation dahil mas binigyan ng focus ang sariling paniniwala: “self-inflicted pains”!
What hinders the PAIN from healing is because “WE KEEP ON KEEPING THE TRUTH”. We don’t tell stories to each other; we don’t listen to each other’s hurts; we find it korny lifting one another’s spirit & we are not there for another’s triumphs – because we’d rather be with somebody else. We make ourselves “strangers” from one another INSIDE OUR FAMILY – and the remnants, as well as unsettled issues in the past have its way of “haunting us”!
Happiness is A DECISION! One can never be … if we keep on demanding things to be perfectly at our favor.
If we want to be happy, we’ve also got to give our amount of understanding to the imperfect person from whom we expect that much!
With the “lifting of the Cross” to put Jesus to death in our commemoration of today’s Gospel, God hopes to make us realize na minsan, hindi na ang mga pagkukulang ng kung sino man sa pamilya ang dapat nating titigan.
If we can only open our heart to the pureness of intention, we would realize that those agony & “sacrifices” na pinagdaanan ng mga taong nagmamahal sa atin should be “more than enough” to give us “HEALING RELATIONSHIPS”.
‘yong sabi nating “GUSTO NATING MAGING MASAYA”… sana hindi natin iasa sa iba kung paano — kasi TAYO ANG DAPAT MAG-WORK OUT NITO SA SARILI NATIN!
What we prefer doing shows how much we love. God gave His only begotten Son just to prove to us that LOVE is beyond the material things which we mostly prefer to get – a miracle that we can perform to HEAL OUR PAIN! #sunset
The “WHO” that you are? …
Creative, adorable, thoughtful, hilarious, youthful, day dreamer, sweet, systematic, patient, independent, adventurous, zealous, enduring, observant, challenging, energetic, joyful, optimistic, loyal, great, loving mother, brave, honest, social worker, God-fearing, motherly, organized, active, never easily gives up, joker, committed, beloved father, thinker, adventurous, wonderful, ambitious, sensitive, religious, cry baby, emotional, athletic, notorious, interactive, eco-lover, caring, responsible, extra hard-worker, always “on-the-go”, nice, emphatic, nursing, approachable, friendly, fun-loving, excited, kind, jolly, happy, pretty, multi-tasker, youth-lover, nice, talented, listener, intelligent, dreamer, believer, awesome, listener, realistic, good looking, special, explorer, willing to learn, influential.
Can you still pick the character that you are — as you said “you were” when you did your meaningful introduction?
YOU ARE UNIQUE … YES, YOU ARE! — but it’s never easy proving so, unless you find some other means which would be of great help.
1. Try LISTING DOWN your NEEDS.
2. Draw an “AKO symbol and allocate a certain percentage: How many % of YOU are these needs?
3. Now, what about your BLESSINGS? Make a list of it too.
5. How many % of YOU are those blessings?
6. Now, try to do some “SELF-CHECK-POINT”!
How did you use your percentages? Anything else left? Without having to be told, haven’t you thought of allotting some of what you have for SHARING? What then can you GIVE? How many % of YOU can you GIVE?
7. What are you going to do now IF NOTHING IS LEFT? What could be some points of realization here?
Don’t feel bad about the allotments which you’ve been somehow unmindful about. YOUR REALIZATIONS would tell about the person that you are.
You may be “caught un-aware” along the way — just like going through LIFE — which is said to be “like a box of chocolates: you’ll never know what you will get” [Forest Gump] — but your reactions each time you get something which is not really your choice will SPEAK A LOT OF WHO YOU ARE!
BOOM! ENVY IS A “SELF-INFLICTED PAIN”!!!
We can be entitled of our own feelings but not to the point of disregarding & disrespecting the person who has been striving to “reach out to us” just because we convinced ourself that what we’re thinking is “what’s true”!
GUSTO MONG MAGING MASAYA?
Never capitalize your “I” — if you want to spell happ”I”ness!” — kasi “AWKWARD” tingnan pag gusto mo ikaw lang ang “focus”. Learn to understand pag kailangan din ng iba kung ano ang dapat meron ka at certain moments — kasi may panahon naman kung kailan dapat ikaw lang ang “standout”. *lab you 🙂
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