I’m an insurance underwriter and I travel from one city to the next, even during weekends. Since I miss my children and really try to maximize the little time I have with them on weekends, I bring them along. Problem is, the kids need to do their homework and so they...

I’m a mother of four kids. My work at home can be unimaginable. I try to do the laundry and cooking and washing before the kids come after school but handling a house of four kids can be so tiresome. And speaking of homework, I tried my best to be that super mom who...

I work night shifts. My kids and I only have about two hours together before I need to leave for work. Those two hours are truly precious. The time I get home from work is about the time kids leave for school. I don’t have the luxury to sit with the kids to do their...

Being a teacher is very challenging. Even if you can eat fire and walk on tightrope in front of the class, a teacher can only do so much. Imagine teaching eight hours a day, day in and day out in front of at least 30 hungry minds. Even if I really want to help this...

Mastery tests rate the student’s stock knowledge. For one whole semester, bits and pieces of learning competencies are delivered to the student. At the end of the a given period, the teacher would want to rate the student on how much the students acquired the...

The weather becomes signal number 2 and classes are suspended. Though the kids could get an extra hour or two of sleep, the whole day becomes unproductive. For teachers, it becomes more than a calamity because that means the lesson for the day will bump off the...

Of course yes! Is the answer that we will most likely hear from anyone, even among those with the vaguest idea of what is happening in the world right now. Nobody can deny that being fluent in a language other than Filipino is a big advantage not only within the...

Major exams take place once every 3 or four months, depending on a school’s calendar. The weeks and days leading up to that is filled with various quizzes, seatworks and homeworks, along with the introduction of new subjects that will comprise one grading period. Now,...

Plenty of people have a fear of public speaking. They’d rather work in the background or write everything down rather than speak out. Here are a few tips to get over this fear: Organize your thoughts – nothing is more important than making sure that you are prepared....

Willpower and self-discipline – two important assets one must possess if one wants to become successful. They go hand in hand. Willpower is the ability to overcome laziness and procrastination and unnecessary impulses, while self-discipline is the ability to persevere...