Memories

As our kids grow up and see them go to school everyday, I can’t help recalling my childhood days…

I remember my parents telling  me: ‘Be good son.  Study hard so you won’t grow up like us…’ 

My father did not finish any degree.  My mother finished her grade six and did not have the opportunity to be sent to high school due to poverty… As I grew up, I saw and noted how they pushed my older sibblings to their studies.  My father tills the land and gets just enough harvest from the land he inherited from my grandparents.   Mother on the other hand would sell rice cakes in sticks, home made doughnuts and barbecued corns in my school.  There were times when I would go with her selling fresh and ripe mangoes in the nearest town – Guimba during market days…

Life was hard…

Parents

It’s been awhile!  I have been very busy with a lot of things for the fast few months.    I am taking care of our (small)  accounting and HR consultancy  firm.  A consultant, if I may say.  Yes, I take care of other people’s businesses. There were the ups and downs of the business, deaths (of  my mother-in-law, a dear Uncle in May and another one last December).  And some sickness of our kids from time to time…

But that’s not going to be my topic here.  It will be more of  myself and my wife  raising  our children, and how are we and what are we doing as they grow up.

Being busy with our small business  or  concerns with some friends and relatives should not hinder me  from taking care of our  kids.  Of course there is my wife.  Yes, she is also busy with her career (as a finance person), hectic and lots of pressure as she has always been, but we always see to it that there is and there will always be that quality time for our kids. 

So how are the kids  doing lately?

We are blessed with  three beautiful and brilliant kids.  They have been doing great, actually.  Mitzi, who is now in Grade Six ranks second in her class, so with our youngest, Ravi.  Raham does good in other areas and we  are so happy with them.

Although our little girl got ill last month of the deadly dengue fever, we were so glad to had it detected as early as possible and had her  recovered fast.  As parents, we were really worried of her.  Some of her schoolmates were also caught by the fever.  In fact one of her classmates died of it a few days before she was hospitalized.

Raham and Ravi are crazy about their yoyo’s.  Ah, boys.  They will always be boys.  Little boys.  There are their toys, toy guns, toy cars, puzzles, etc. 

Just let them be…

Knowledge is Power!

Hi!  Being a father to three (3) beautiful children, it is my obligation and responsibility to provide and equip them enough knowledge that they could use  in their everyday lives as they grow up.  Education is the best legacy any one parent could ever, ever give his children.

As early as zero (0) age, meaning, even before my kids were born, I have already been imparting knowledge to them.  My wife and I have already been reading stories to them from children books  even when they were still in her womb.. Well, not just stories but also music… mostly classical from Amadeus to Beethoven…  We just believed reading them stories and that giving them music at that point in time in their lives would also cheer them up… give them that feeling of comfort while in the womb of their mother, and makes them stronger and fully develop from fetus into  beautiful and gifted human beings…

 This site, therefore will  be dealing with knowledge.  Knowledge  that is not limited to what they learn from their respective schools and the world that surrounds them but also from their very first teachers – - us, parents.. It could be anything from under the sun. . . from people, science, different cultures etc…

I just hope that, in my next posts, I will be able to share those knowledge.  Make these as reference so that so you  could also share these to our children. . . These knowledge that give us power!