Sibling Rivalry

The news about Ram Revilla’s death was very tragic, and double up because the prime suspects are his siblings. I cannot really imagine how an 18 and 22 year old youngsters can possibly do a heinous crime like this to their own brother. Sibling rivalry was told to be the root cause, I read more about this topic on Wikipedia. Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among children.  Siblings generally spend more time together during childhood than they do with parents. The sibling bond is often complicated and is influenced by factors such as parental treatment, birth order, personality, and people and experiences outside the family. Sibling rivalry often continues throughout childhood and can be very frustrating and stressful to parents. Fighting with siblings as a way to get parental attention may increase in adolescence. Sibling rivalry can continue into adulthood and sibling relationships can change dramatically over the years.

What are the main causes?

• Unequal amounts of their parents’ attention, discipline, and responsiveness
• Stress in the parents’ and children’s lives can create more conflict and increase sibling rivalry
• Children fight more in families where there is no understanding that fighting is not an acceptable way to resolve conflicts, and no alternative ways of handling such conflicts

How to Prevent it?

• Refusing to compare or typecast their children
• Planning fun family activities together
• Making sure each child has enough time and space of their own
• Give each child individual attention, encourage teamwork, refuse to hold up one child as a role model for the others
• Avoid FAVORITISM

Thank You

Thank you Lord that I was sick last Tuesday, I was with my kids when typhoon Pedring badly hit our town. Definitely there were many stories and photos to share but thank you that we had stocks of food, water and candles because we have no electricity in two days. I heard so many complaints from my kids because of no electricity and internet access but I told them that we are still lucky because the fLood did not reach inside our house. Last night I cooked all the cold cuts inside the ref, it was a good problem because I was worried what to do with my raw food. Until now the streets are not passable but hopefully I can report for work tommorow. We already have electricity but cable and internet connection were not yet fixed, thankful again I have an Ipad 3G...God is good all the time.

STOP Obando Landfill Project

We need your help. Please sign this PETITION and send a message to the Municipal and Provincial Government not only to protect the people of Obando, the Obando River, and Manila Bay but also to uphold the rights of people to voice out their concerns without fear of persecution from their leaders. Please go directly to this link: https://www.change.org/petitions/tell-the-mayor-and-governor-to-stop-the-obando-sanitary-landfill-project. Call it foul but even our priest experienced harrasment from the policemen, please read the article here courtesy of Inquirer.

No to Obando Landfill

Obando, just like the other towns of Bulacan, has two pronounced seasons: dry and wet season. The wet season is from May to October and the dry season is from November to April. The rainfall of the wet season accounts for about 80% of the annual rainfall, which is due to west monsoons and typhoons. Currently  the major problem of our town is the Obando Landfill. The recently approved Obando Landfill converting 44.4 hectares of Salambao River to a garbage dump. A waste and pollution watchdog has appealed to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje to intervene in the proposed construction of a waste landfill facility in Obando, Bulacan, citing the proximity of the waste facility to Manila Bay.

Once implemented, the following problems of Obando will never be resolved:

           Heavy flooding during rainy seasons

• River pollution caused by the Tanza, Navotas dumpsite. In 2002, under the leadership of Mayor Nesty Joaquin, the Sangguniang Bayan of Obando, Bulacan passed a controversial resolution allowing all the Phileco (Philippine Ecology Systems Corp.) barges that contains tons of Metro Manila's garbage to pass the river of Obando and dumped it in a river-turned "controlled" dumpsite facility in Tanza, Navotas which is only 1 km away from Obando. Mass actions followed but local officials failed to stop the dumping up to this date. Studies showed that the operation of the dump was polluting the river and had caused several diseases among residents, mostly old folks, women and children.

NO! to Obando Landfill!

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