Combat Your Child's Talk-back Attitude

We appreciate our children being open to us and talking about things that bother them. But this is the situation that is getting us upset, when we hear them talk-back.  Like you, I have been experiencing too much stress hearing my child answering-back whenever I discipline her for something wrong she did, it started when my older child was eight-year old.  

I am really troubled how I can regulate her.  It really made lose my temper that sometimes I cannot help but mildly hit her. Still, that hitting did not give her a lesson to learn to avoid her being like that again.  The “answering-back” is made worst by her unruly look – eyes piercingly-sharp matched with her creasing forehead.  Who will not explode, if you are the mother seeing and hearing your youngster that way?

Leather Bags and Shoes Info and Care Tips

Sofa, car seats, bags, belts, shoes and even accessories that trend nowadays- there is always a leather version. We love leather.We are fond of its beauty, quality and elegance.  Leather available in the market ranges from snake's, buffalo's, cow's, leopard's, ostrich's or the most expensive - the crocodile's. It comes on different color depending on the source animal but most are brown and black.

Here are some tips to get to know leather more and some few reminders on taking care of it:

Clay Art Design Gallery: Cartoon Character Lorax

My daughter has been very busy creating her masterpieces out of clay and I wanted to appreciate what she is doing that is why I have decided to take a photo of her every design and post it here for you to see and your kids to copy :) Just  to give them some clay design idea...see the last close-up image of the project below:

She copied Lorax :)

Loom Band Florid Bracelet Tutorial

Here is a very nice florid loom band bracelet tutorial your kids might want to try creating. It is on a video format compatible to Android devices (mobile phones, tablets). See the two videos (part1 & 2 below:)

Florid Loom Band Bracelet

The Golden Rule Never Fades

Hi, everyone.  I love to discuss quotes here in my blog and one of them I want to tackle is the quote I live by:

An Intriguing Insect(Beetle) I Found!

Hi, have you seen this beetle and crab-like creature? I just wanted to share its beauty to you.  To be honest, I do not really know how is it called :)

Cheaters Beware of the Disadvantages

Hi! It has been ages since I wrote for the “Relationship” tabs of my blog. And here is another article married men should be reminded of  and why one must not opt to have an illicit affair:

How to Make Tastier Slivers (not a recipe, just a tip)

Hi, here's how to make tastier  pork slivers (small chunks of meat combined with an entree).

As we know, pork is a not that quick to soften unlike chicken. What I did before is just boiling it with salt. But I noticed that it did not tasted that good especially in soupy entrees, when you put too much water in boiling.

Here is the better way I have tried:

1. Slice the pork around half-inch thick and in smaller bits.

2. Salt it according to taste and add a little MSG (without the water yet). Mash it.

English Lesson IVa : PRONOUNS

Pronoun - is the part of speech that takes the place of or substitutes a noun.

It is good that pronouns had been invented because if not, writing and speaking will be so boring if we are going to hear and read the same names (in writing, it's troublesome to write long names too!) over and over again. Imagine your essay for example about the "mysterious woman in black dress" - the name is unknown. You have to write that name phrase you called her again and again to say something about her, without using Pronouns, it would be difficult, I suppose. Thanks it has came about :)

The "basics" about PRONOUNS...

Loom Band Flower Charm Tutorial - BETTER-ANGLE VIDEO :)

We know that many of you liked this design but our first video-tutorial was done in a very poor angle :( We have decided to do a re-make of the tutorial video. My daughter and I are quite sure that this will make you happy craft-lovers :)

Designed by my Angel Reign. I have converted it to a video format compatible for tablets and android phones, just send it from your laptop via blue tooth device :)

  

Centi-fly Loom Band Bracelet Tutorial

Mobile-friendly format Tutorial.  Here is the very first loom band bracelet tutorial by  my daughter Angel Reign, she personally invented the design.

Centipede-butterfly designed loom band bracelet

CLayArt No.001 3D Clay Cup

Here is a clay masterpiece (because it was made a six-year old) for your children to re-create or copy.  Buy them the "non-toxic" clay set of different colors  and you are actually keeping them glued on their seats while copying the designs I will upload frequently.  We are planning to make videos of it sooner.

"Flower Cup" by Riana Ysobel

I have asked her to re-construct the cup and she came-up with the heart design here, I let her choose the colors:

Commonly Misused English Words

These are just three of the words we used everyday that we never noticed that is wrong:

We called the writing material pentel pen  when it should have been felt-tip-pen. Pentel is a brand/manufacturer name.

Folding Clothes, Your Child Can Do it!

Here is my six-year old child, Riana Ysobel folding newly-dried clothes.  I just set-up the ironing board, the iron-rest serves as the hanger suspender and the board as her desk where she can put the folded clothes...here is her video with her older sister (Angel Reign) singing in the background...

Plus, tweet, pin or re-share this post if it inspires you to encourage your children at a very young age to do some light chores like it or you adore Riana and her "little job" :) Thanks for watching...Riana Ysobel will be happy to hear your comments :) Come back to see more of her.

A Quote about Health

Eating the right kinds of food will make us healthy - and will prevent us from getting sick.  I never sacrifice my family's health over budgeting. And I opted not to give them (my children) ALWAYS what they wanted especially if it would give them health risk. And it always rewarding to know that we have not been the regular visitors of hospitals and clinics :)