Category: Family

What’s Your Starting Point? (On Being Ready and Prepared for the Future)

As a young professional, the first paycheck that we earn is very special to us. It opens up a new world, the world of spending. We often see the money that we earn as asset that we could just spend, the ability to finally buy things for ourselves. It often leads us to becoming careless on our spending.

Why do we have this mentality? Because in school we were thought to think in terms of science, history, ethics, math, don’t get me wrong, all these thing are great and important in honing us as individuals, but do these subjects actually prepare us for the real world? Does it prepare us for taxes? Does it teach us to budget, save and prioritize? Continue reading What’s Your Starting Point? (On Being Ready and Prepared for the Future)

The Play’s the Thing: How Fun Can Make Your Child a Better Student

If you have been following my blog for sometime, you may notice that I have been advocating homeschooling as one of the best methods in planting knowledge in children.

My wife serves as our child’s “school adviser” and lead teacher and I, the “other subjects” teacher in homeschooling our daughter. I prefer it that way. 😀

My wife teaches our child the main subjects such English and Filipino Languages (Reading and Writing), Mathematics, Science, etc. while I am in charge in teaching about Values/Religion, Music, Physical Education, and other “extra-curricular” subjects. But we both work together in teaching our child about setting goals.

But what struck me recently is this infographic sent to me by a friend from the US. We don’t have to be boring and authoritarian in our teaching ways. Fun and play should always be part of the lesson plan. Continue reading The Play’s the Thing: How Fun Can Make Your Child a Better Student

Money Mistakes That OFW’s Make (My ANC OnTheMoney Guesting)

While we were on a few days of summer getaway in Bohol back in April 2015, I received a call from ANC OnTheMoney. It was about the new schedule for my guesting on the TV show. As you know, I have been postponing the guestings that they have been asking me for the last two years for a few good reasons.

First, I’m out of the country most of the time. Secondly, vacations are sweet and short for an OFW like me. My fellow OFW’s know that spending time with loved ones during their vacation is the ultimate happiness and the most priceless period on the whole year. And visiting loved ones and family members was what I usually did in the past two annual vacations.

This time around, my friend Heinz Bulos of Moneysense/Learning Curve, who partners with ANC OnTheMoney in providing guests for their show, emailed me about accepting the invitation to guest. So yes, I said yes. 😀 Thank you Heinz! 🙂 Continue reading Money Mistakes That OFW’s Make (My ANC OnTheMoney Guesting)