Handwashing is a family culture at Casa Ruffolo — and it is largely because of Jeff who emphasized to the children the need to have clean hands. Nicholas and Antoinette wash their hands before and after eating, after using the toilet and after every playtime or activity they participate in.
I had second thoughts about reading Eric Carle’s Papa Please Get the Moon for Me to my children. The story is about a girl named Monica who wants to play with moon so she went ahead and asked Papa what she wanted. Papa did everything in his power to give the moon …
Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a delightful book which provides lessons on numbers, days of the week, fruits, food and the life cycle of a butterfly. For teachers and mothers with children five years old and below, this is a resource material that can be used for two …
My childhood years involved afternoons where my Mama, a stay-at-home mother, would order me to sit down so she can do something with the lice and nits living on my crowning glory. Yuck! Yes, my head became the nesting ground of this parasite. Because I was the firstborn and hence, …
A rat infestation in the city of Ubec, Philippines in the year 1909 led to the discovery of a dead body, which was later identified as that of a priest. Around this plot revolves the story and life of Ines Maceda with sub-themes on friendship, teenage romance and same-sex relationship …
Here goes my bias for publications which give readers straight facts and information — and publication in which I am one of the writers. Before I proceed, let me get this out in the open: my mother, Maria Elena Berdin, was a History student of the University of San Carlos …
Fancy a day away? How about two? You can’t go wrong by spending your hard-earned break from the world at Montebello Villa Hotel — one of Cebu’s only garden hotel destination in this bustling metropolis. Sitting on hectares of prime open green space – truly one of the last open …
There is a special formula that Neil Gaiman uses in all his books and that formula has the capacity to captivate and transport dreamers like this mother to a place no mortal man has ever stepped on or thought of visiting. In Neverwhere, Gaiman constructed a London that was so …
“To Eat a Lot is Not Bad – But to Waste the Food is Not Good” You’ll see a placard with this slogan written on it when you enter NYPD – short for New York Pizza Depot – located at APM Centrale, A. Soriano Ave., Mabolo in Cebu City directly …
I buy two to three books every time I am in National Book Store. Five months ago, I saw Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan’s Meet My SuperDad as I was looking for a new storybook that I can introduce to my children. Nicholas, the premier bookworm in Casa Ruffolo Uno, had been bugging …
