Do you know how NOT to raise a Brat?

Can you bring peace to sibling rivalry?

or do you know that there are powerful tools to be an amazingly successful parents?

If you want to know the answers to these very simple and yet complex questions, attend the 1st Philippine Parenting Summit!

The 1st Philippine Parenting Summit promises to equip the parents with the right tools to help build a great family. It is packed with practical ideas to inspire, motivate and enable parents to bring about significant changes to build stronger and more confident families.

Highlights of the Parenting Summit Event:

• Secrets of Tender Loving Couples
• Be the Happiest Mom in the Universe!
• Big Picture: Practice and Live Proactive Parenting
• Powerful Tools to be Amazingly Successful Parents
• Team Family: Create Positive Changes Together
• The 3C’s of Positive Parenting
• Parenting your Kids and Teenagers without Losing your Mind!
• How NOT to be a Wimpy Parent and NOT Raise an Entitled BRAT!
• Sibling Rivalry: Bringing Peace to the Little Hooligans
• The Fairest Discipline Method: Effectively using it to bring about Joy, Peace, Coherence and Sanity back into your Life!
• Unravel Core Values and Beliefs: Share Stories, Principles and Beliefs to encourage Change and let your children Thrive
• Create Healthy Boundaries: Discipline to create a balanced environment of cooperation and a platform for safe exploration
• Transform Stress into Happiness: Explore flexible tools, self-soothing techniques and coping skills that release stress and build resilience, for kids of any age
• Honoring Children’s Gifts: Understand the role of personal strengths and the power of emotions in guiding children toward life’s purpose
• Deepen Communication: Learn unique ways in communicating love; practice the art of listening; and discover how these help children flourish
• Master the Art of Letting Go: Trust your intuition and savor the freedom of allowing your children control their own experiences

The event will be held on May 12, 2012 from 10:30AM to 7:30PM. The venue will be the 5th Level, Function Room A & B, Mega B of SM Megamall in EDSA, Mandaluyong City.

Don’t think this seminar will bore you instead this summit is designed to provide heaps of fun and humor; and is most suitable for all parents of children from toddlers to 18 years old.

For more information, call/text: 0917-3257870
Duo #: 022114363

Email: SuccessSeminars@Ariva.com.ph

Register online : www.Ariva.com.ph

Day-to-day activities can be strenuous, even a simple walking or running wears you out on a hot day. These together with air temperature result to a, really, warm core body temperature. Now, your body reacts to such situation by transferring more blood infusions all through out your skin. You will feel a cold sensation, as a result. The bad thing in here is that lesser blood is left for the muscles. That is why, at the same time, you will feel your heart beat increasing and faster.

Have a cooler summer!

During a hot day, more stressed is experienced, because your sweat is only able to evaporate slowly, with the heavy humid around, it competes in part. This should, also, heighten body temperature, as well.

How can you endure such a hot day? To prevent suffering from a wearying heat exhaustion and possible heat stroke, you can do these precautions:

1. Remember tips and helpful ways in making a hot day, a cool one.
• Add several more recess or breaks during working, so that you can have time to drink more water or juice.
• Relax and enjoy your summer vacation.
• Re-schedule your strenuous activities like soccer field games or outdoor tennis games.
• Be sure to stay in shades like tents or small waiting areas.
• Use a big umbrella to protect your skin from the sun’s harmful rays.
• You can, also, stay in air-conditioned rooms, if it is possible, but if not, you can instead, twice (2x) take a bath in a day (or more.)
• Observing a proper diet can, also, cool things down, like eating chilled salads or fresh fruits. This should lessen your time in the stove.
• Moreover, alcoholic drinks can make your body really hot, so avoid it.
• In terms of fashion, dress lightly and choose pastel colors. Cotton is, still, the best material for your dress in a hot day. It is lightweight and reflects heat away from your body.
• Keep a bottle of water, always, with you.
• Help elders or kids suffering from heat stroke and heat exhaustion; bring them immediately to the nearest clinics or health department.
2. Know the early signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke symptoms, for quick first aid applications. These can be heavy sweating or no sweating (very dry skin), headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, body weakness and fainting, paleness or redness, very high body temperature, fast heart beat and stammered lines.
3. Use proper heat stroke treatments. Such a situation can be life-threatening. You should treat it as an emergency. For first aid steps, when finding a victim, be sure to carry him or her to the nearest shady place like under a big tree or inside a store. Loosen clothing, you can open the top buttons or remove totally the shirt. Apply cold materials, like a damp cloth or ice, on the victim’s neck, face, armpits or feet. Splashing small amounts of water all over the body can, also, helpful. Although, letting the victim drink water or treated with alcohol is a no-no. While you are doing these, the body temperature should be recorded in account. During life saving cases and the ambulance or health experts are still not there; call the health hotline for medical assistance.

Please read  How To Prevent Heat Stroke and Taking Care of Heat Stroke Patients for more information about heat stroke. I personally recommend it and share it to your loved ones and friends.

Be cool this summer! I hope the tips mentioned will help you to even be more cooler!

So what’s new?

Let me summarize here some of the unique features that we’re going to implement.

• Not a blogroll, but with  full description of your site!
• No need to send your badge. The image on the link exchange page will be the snapshot of your blog.

Here’s the sample page:

Sample screenshot of Pinay links exchange Page

• Each site will be manually approved and uploaded. This is to make sure that only quality and relevant sites will be added.
• You can submit your FB page, Twitter, Feed/RSS as an option. All links are clickable.
• No coding on your part. New blogger friendly.
• We will not force you to reciprocate the link but If you insist, we welcome your generosity.
• Generous reciprocal links are welcome anywhere. It simply means, you can direct the back link anywhere among the pages on the link exchange site. This is the reason why we need to separate the link exchange pages on alphabetical listing (for now). The plan is to have a category based page too.
• Limit the links to 100 per page, this is to follow Google’s rule on the number of links for a given page.

• Exclusive to all Pinays only. Sorry.

This is just all for now. So what are you waiting for? Submit your site now and be part of soon to be the biggest and sexiest (pretty too) links exchange page. We are still doing some programming in the backend but you can already submit your site on Pinay Links Exchange site by clicking HERE.

Wait, before I answer that let me tell you first that I’m a little bit few marks higher on weighing scale than my supposed to be natural weight. The good news is, according to my recent visit to my doctor,  I lost 2 pounds since the last time I visited him.  I think the biggest factor that helps me to loose weight is my active participation in mountain biking and running. I actually had my first 10KM run during Run United last March 04, 2012.

Our family picture during the Run United 1 2012

The other reason, although I dreaded the word “DIET”, is the body cleansing through…diet. And this is where how to reduce weight naturally comes in.

You see, our body detoxify itself daily. However, if we don’t monitor what we eat, there’s a tendency that our body systems become overload with toxic and wastes. These wastes  comes mostly from processed foods and even pollutants that we breathe in.

Cleanse diet detox helps us by getting rid of the harmful  and toxic matter from our body. It is also designed to increase our body stamina and energy.

The next question you might have in your mind right now is, isn’t dieting expensive that requires a special menu? Well, on the contrary, it’s not. If you really want to detoxify your body, you don’t need to shell out more money than the food that you might already have in your table or fridge. Fresh and whole foods is all you need!

Fruits and green vegetables are best for detoxification. Since it’s summer time, flush out the toxins in your body by drinking fresh squeeze juices such as oranges and carrots. Drinking plenty of water also helps a lot. It keeps your body hydrated.

If you can, (and since it’s Lenten season here in the Philippines), you may want to skip eating of meat for some few days.  Skipping or eating less meat is good for your health and proven way to lighten up on the scale.

Reducing weight without resorting to unnatural methods is possible. Try to participate in a more physically challenged activities such as running, and  eat (as much as possible) more fresh and unprocessed foods.

“The Sleep Fairy” sets a creative mood for kids when going to bed and envisioning a place called the Sweet Dreamland. In each chapter, delights, humor and up-turns will bring long hours of giggling. Through developing mental habits, your kids can be guided according and taught how to be independent as well as self-nurturers to overcome childhood insomnia or solve child sleep problems.

Here are the magic ingredients given by “The Sleep Fairy”:

• Progressive Relaxation
• Remembering Positive Events of the Day
• Guided Imagery
• Good Behavior and Self-Esteem
• Good Dream Direction

“The Sleep Fairy” can cater to newborns of 1-2 months old up to kids of 5-12 years old. It can also as well improve sleep patterns in kids. Lisa is very knowledgeable in the primary activity of their brain and recognizes taking enough sleep to be affecting in pattern. More from her, she said that there are 2 changing types or states of sleep in kids. They are the quiet sleep (Non-Rapid Eye Movement or NREM) and the active sleep (Rapid Eye Movement). The latter inhibits dreaming and brains are active. According to Lisa, babies have more time in both of these states with a sleep cycle of 50 minutes per bed time. In the preschool age, this will increase to 90 minutes. Meaning to say, sleep irregularities can also be more expected.

“The Sleep Fairy” is a bearer of the Dr. Toy “Best Vacation Children’s Products” Award in the USA. You can buy its CD at www.sleepfairy.com for only $14.95.

Tomorrow we will have a sort of bike ride reunion with our bike buddies. My husband prepared the bikes already making sure they are conditioned to take on the rough trails that we will hit by sunrise.  On my part, I prepared all the gears that we are going to use. The problem is, due to excitement, I can’t get a decent sleep. What worrying me actually is to make myself fully awake during our almost whole day bike ride.

I don’t drink coffee. Yup, that’s the reality. Besides, I don’t take those so called “energy drinks” as well. I do take chocolate drinks but not during a bike ride or run.

During our run last week, my brother gave me a sort of vitamins to drink before I race on  my first ever 10KM run.  I almost forgot the name of the pill, good thing I still have extra on my hydration belt bag. The brand is called Provil.  My brother told me it’s FDA approved as wakefulness aid medication. He suggested to buy provigil online if I want more, but I told him to give me one bottle so I’ll have enough supply since he’s got 2 more extra bottles.

I’m not quite sure if the tablet really helped me by keeping me awake but what I noticed was  that I didn’t get tired easily. I was able to finish the run 11 minutes ahead of my target time. It seems I still have the energy when I crossed the finish line. I feel like running for 5 more kilometers. Or, was it because of the training that I undertook before the race?

Our meeting time for our trail biking is 6AM tomorrow in Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Laguna. It’s past 1AM already and I hope I can sleep right after writing this post. Wish me luck!

A friend of mine who is based in abroad is coming here on summer together with her group of foreign friends. I don’t know the exact number yet. They’re planning to hit some of the best beaches here in our country and visit other tourist attractions as well. This is my first time to host a group of foreigner so I’m currently looking for a luxury travel agency that can handle their needs.

Personally, I’ve booked a lot of our family vacations through online as well . I can’t remember when was the last time I went to a travel agency to have our trips settled.  I haven’t had a bad experience when dealing with online agencies…yet. Hopefully not. Cross fingers.

Although I’ve been to a lot of local destinations already, I think it’s more practical if I’ll let a travel agency to do the footwork instead of me calling all the hotels and tour operators where they’re planning to go.

I want my visitors to have a unique experience here in our country so if you know a travel agency that can help me, please leave your comments here. Thanks in advance and have a great weekend!

When searching for a party hall rentals, location is one of the many things to consider. The location should be situated in the most convenient and easy to get into for most of the party attendees. The view from the party hall should be  pleasant too. And this is where Mattitos advantage is. With three convenient locations to serve you at Uptown Dallas, Forest Lane, and Frisco, there’s no way for you to look somewhere else. Mattitos’ Dallas banquet hall can readily seat from 20 to 200 people.

The reason why are you are renting a party hall is for you to celebrate a special event in your life, and this celebration deserves the best food that you can served to your guests. Most party hall rentals has a food package already to go when booking the place. If the party hall is a part of  a restaurant or hotel, better plan to have your dinner there too. Some will allow you to rent or bring your own caterers. Don’t be afraid to ask when reserving the party hall.

In case you are looking for a special event catering Dallas, let Mattitos handle all of the details for you. They offer a wide range of catering packages with their award winning Mexican food to go with it. Don’t fret if you don’t fancy some spicy Mexican food or if you are looking for light and  healthy food to go with your party. Matitos can custom tailor a special menu just for your specific needs. They can adjust the food menu according to your liking and taste.

So the next time you’ll be looking for a party hall in Dallas and caterer for your next event, let Mattitos Tex-Mex exceed your expectations!

But as a mom, specially mom who stays at home while their kids are out in the school and with a hubby who’s doing his best to be a good provider, we can’t avoid putting our hands in the water. Aside from the fact that skin and nails lose moisture with age, the dryness is compounded by frequent hand washing.

Now to really make your nail polish longer, take a look at some of my personal and tested tips:

1. Make sure your nails are  perfectly smooth, clean and buffed. This is to make sure the nail polish has a clean surface to attach to.
2. Use your own nail polish. If you go to a salon or even when you hire somebody to do the job for you, try to bring or use your preferred nail polish. It has been a practice of some salon owners to add thinners on their stock of nail polish to extend it’s life. Check out some nail care collection specifically for professional nail care.
3. If you have your own nail polish, store them in cold, dark place. This will keep them from changing colors. Not properly stored old nail polish can cause bubbles and peeling later on.
4. Avoid putting on nail polish with electric fan or moving air directly in your nails. This is a sure way to have some uneven finish.
5. Apply a base coat nail polish and wait for it to dry completely.
6. Apply your favorite nail polish (2-3 coats). Again, wait for it to dry completely. I prefer to use 2 coats only. My favorite colors are those with earth tones. You may want to check julep maven review for nail polish watches. Personally, I spend 15-20mins air dry between coats.
7. The last step is to apply a top coat nail polish. Take note that it takes around 12 hours for the nail polish to dry completely so avoid exposing them to harsh environment within this period.

Again for us moms who do the dishes, try to use dishwashing gloves on dishes, and other household chores.

Also, hydrate your hands with a petroleum-based cream to lock in moisture. Lately, I’ve found out that applying virgin coconut oil is also helpful in making my hands and nails smooth, moisturized and healthy looking.

How do I customize a ringtone. After downloading some ringtones or even MP3′s from the internet, I usually copy them first on my PC and use an application to either fully customize them or convert the Mp3′s to ringtones. There are a lot of applications already available that you can download for free and install on your PC,  or directly on your mobile phone. There are also ringtone apps for Android and iPhone. Just use the  best ringtone app that you can find and suited for you platform.

If you don’t want to download anything, you can always opt to use online ringtone maker services where you can upload and  edit your music file in just few seconds. You can then send the file to your phone or download it first.

If you are in a crowd, where most everyone are using their phones in playing, texting, or calling, the only thing  that separates your phone’s distinctiveness from other people is your own personalized ringtone. It’s like having your own identity.

So go, personalize your ringtone and create your own identity!