Products that Didn’t Make the Christmas Shopping List and Why
I am the kind of mom who wants to buy a plethora of toys to encourage her son’s creativity and imagination. I am also the kind of mom who works online and will touch the keyboard rather than the broom or the cleaning detergent when she wakes up in the morning. Some good toys are [...]
Read more »Geek Parents Spawn Geeky Babies
First of all… yes, I accommodated projects during the holidays! For some reason, my 8 years of stress in Inno turned me into a project-seeking monster who panics at the thought of being free-from-work even for a few days.
Ok, maybe I am a bit of a workaholic, but that’s not exactly the reason for my [...]
Christmas Toys Dilemma
What does a mom give to a little boy who shares every single one of his dad’s big boy toys? At the age of two, AJ was able to complete a stage in Mario Kart all by himself (well, ok … with a little help from the daddy). At three, he has moved on to [...]
Read more »Baby Basics: New Toys for Babies
In the spirit of the season of sale, particularly Christmas and Halloween sales, I know how all you new mommies out there are rarin’ to just buy toys and more toys for your little ones.In fact, I know of one new mommy who would buy anything with “educational” written on the box.
Here’s my own short [...]
Holiday Gift Shopping: Never Too Early
So we go to the malls again and tomorrow, we are canvassing for toy prices at Divisoria (the Philippines’ top bargain center). Bearing in mind the admonitions against buying cheap toys, my agenda for this Christmas is to give out books and educational stuff to my godchildren. In the past, this has always been a [...]
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