Sing and dance with your child!
April 30, 2006 | 12:00am
For most parents today, the great challenge is caring for your child while trying to efficiently juggle all your other activities and responsibilities. At the core of every parent’s heart is the desire to spend quality time and connect with his child, a simple hope that ironically demands a lot of time, patience, and energy. When I was a day-old mom and could not make heads or tails of what the baby wanted I remember secretly wishing for an early childhood music and movement education that could supplement or nourish the mommy/daddy-baby relationship. Of course, I learned to decipher the clues as I went along, learned to have fun and allow my heart to grow big with love as all those tender moments unfolded.
I learned of Kindermusik just this week. Prof. Carmencita Guanzon-Arambulo is the owner and directress of Kindermusik by CTEC, and her daughter-in-law Dang del Rosario-Arambulo is the licensed educator. They offer Kindermusik at 285 Connecticut St., Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City, with tel. nos. 724-0705 and 724-2543. Kindermusik is the world’s leading music and movement program for infants and children up to seven years old.
As both a parent and an educator, Prof. Carmencita Guanzon-Arambulo, a.k.a Mrs. A as all the children and parents fondly call her, relates to the concerns of many parents, and she knows well that spending time with your baby, toddler, or young child offers a great start in life. Facial expressions, verbalizations, eye contact and the sounds that you make as you talk to your child when you’re playing together, or reading to your him, singing and dancing together – all these things make an enormous impact on his learning. As such, Mrs. A opened a center for young children and parents to play, sing, and dance together. Studies show that music stimulates creative thoughts and learning; it helps prepare children for math, science and language. All children are musical, and music nurtures a child’s cognitive, social, language, emotional, and physical development.
Time spent with your child listening to music, singing, clapping, marching, and playing instruments is never wasted time. Why? The Mozart Effect author Don Campbell says tracing neurological development through childhood provides the answer. Prior to neural development in the brain during the primary school years, learning occurs through movement and quick emotional associations. For example, by age two, the brain has begun to fuse with the body via marching, dancing, and developing a sense of physical rhythm. The more kids are exposed to music or before they enter school, the more deeply this stage of neural coding will assist them through their lives. This experience translates into communication skills, study skills, and cognitive skills that contribute to all parts of life. Research supports that music helps prepare the mind for specific disciplines of learning. One study cited in a 1997 article in Neurological Research indicated that music training is far superior to computer instruction in dramatically enhancing children’s abstract reasoning skills, which is the skill necessary for learning math and science. It is a fact that exposure to music at infancy encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that will certainly spill over and benefit the child in other areas of his life.
Make the summer more fun and worthwhile for your kids. Enroll them at WonderKids Acting Workshop. Classes will run from May 3-29 at Studio 116, V.A. Rufino St., Legaspi Village, Makati City. For inquiries, call 892-9623 and 0917-7933107.
I would like to share with all of you the plight of children with cancer. Please support this cause in any way you can. Aside from the tie-up with Bruno’s Barbers, there will be a fund-raising concert at Metrowalk featuring MYMP, Akafellas, and Francis M, among others. For those of you who want to donate, call Paul Perez at 0917-5218694.
A lot of kids afflicted with cancer come from indigent families, and it is really heartbreaking to know that they go through even so much more pain because they cannot afford the basic cost of anesthesia for bone marrow aspiration, which is important in determining the extent of cancer. Over and above that, funds are needed to complete the cycle of treatments each child needs. You can never give too little or too much; whatever you share from the heart will help save lives. It’s easy to feel compassion, but the true test of piety is when you get up and actually do something about the feeling. Write a check or donate goods that these children can use. Share your time. Whatever the spirit stirs in you, embrace its prodding and let it lead you into making a difference in a child’s life. You very well might just be the angel the child has been waiting for.
In the Philippines, there are over 3,500 new cases of childhood cancer each year. Once diagnosed, these children face one of the most difficult treatments in medical world: chemotherapy. While on treatment, these children lose out on a number of things, like schooling and appetite. But one of the most glaring effects of the treatment is the loss of one’s hair.
In support of the challenges that these children go through, Bruno’s Barbers, the country’s leading barber shop, and Project: Brave Kids, a non-stock non-profit volunteer group helping children with cancer, have teamed up to introduce a unique way of helping children with cancer.
This summer, one can volunteer to have his head shaven; all proceeds will go to the fund to help children receiving chemotherapy treatments at the Philippine Children’s Medical Center. Having one’s head shaven also gets one involved in the cause in a very meaningful way. They come to identify with the cancer patients by personally experiencing a very public aspect of their illness: losing one’s hair.
Paul and Sigrid Perez, lead volunteers of Project: Brave Kids, initiated the shaving donation program to give people an opportunity to show their support for children with cancer, and at the same time be able to raise funds for treatment of indigent patients.
"Children are not supposed to lose their hair. As a matter of fact, everything should still be growing at this stage. But when diagnosed with cancer, life becomes different and difficult for these children. As adults, we can only support them the best possible way. If looking like them – that is being bald is one way of showing support – then I think we are giving these children reasons to fight cancer," says Perez.
There are 10 branches of Bruno’s Barbers located at Alabang Town Center; Commonwealth, Libis; Greenbelt; Greenhills; Ortigas Center; Salcedo Village; Shangri-La Plaza; The Power Plant; and Tomas Morato, Quezon City.
Through this effort, Bruno’s Barbers and Project: Brave Kids hope to give children afflicted with cancer a fighting chance to live their lives to the fullest.
I learned of Kindermusik just this week. Prof. Carmencita Guanzon-Arambulo is the owner and directress of Kindermusik by CTEC, and her daughter-in-law Dang del Rosario-Arambulo is the licensed educator. They offer Kindermusik at 285 Connecticut St., Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City, with tel. nos. 724-0705 and 724-2543. Kindermusik is the world’s leading music and movement program for infants and children up to seven years old.
As both a parent and an educator, Prof. Carmencita Guanzon-Arambulo, a.k.a Mrs. A as all the children and parents fondly call her, relates to the concerns of many parents, and she knows well that spending time with your baby, toddler, or young child offers a great start in life. Facial expressions, verbalizations, eye contact and the sounds that you make as you talk to your child when you’re playing together, or reading to your him, singing and dancing together – all these things make an enormous impact on his learning. As such, Mrs. A opened a center for young children and parents to play, sing, and dance together. Studies show that music stimulates creative thoughts and learning; it helps prepare children for math, science and language. All children are musical, and music nurtures a child’s cognitive, social, language, emotional, and physical development.
Time spent with your child listening to music, singing, clapping, marching, and playing instruments is never wasted time. Why? The Mozart Effect author Don Campbell says tracing neurological development through childhood provides the answer. Prior to neural development in the brain during the primary school years, learning occurs through movement and quick emotional associations. For example, by age two, the brain has begun to fuse with the body via marching, dancing, and developing a sense of physical rhythm. The more kids are exposed to music or before they enter school, the more deeply this stage of neural coding will assist them through their lives. This experience translates into communication skills, study skills, and cognitive skills that contribute to all parts of life. Research supports that music helps prepare the mind for specific disciplines of learning. One study cited in a 1997 article in Neurological Research indicated that music training is far superior to computer instruction in dramatically enhancing children’s abstract reasoning skills, which is the skill necessary for learning math and science. It is a fact that exposure to music at infancy encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that will certainly spill over and benefit the child in other areas of his life.
Make the summer more fun and worthwhile for your kids. Enroll them at WonderKids Acting Workshop. Classes will run from May 3-29 at Studio 116, V.A. Rufino St., Legaspi Village, Makati City. For inquiries, call 892-9623 and 0917-7933107.
A lot of kids afflicted with cancer come from indigent families, and it is really heartbreaking to know that they go through even so much more pain because they cannot afford the basic cost of anesthesia for bone marrow aspiration, which is important in determining the extent of cancer. Over and above that, funds are needed to complete the cycle of treatments each child needs. You can never give too little or too much; whatever you share from the heart will help save lives. It’s easy to feel compassion, but the true test of piety is when you get up and actually do something about the feeling. Write a check or donate goods that these children can use. Share your time. Whatever the spirit stirs in you, embrace its prodding and let it lead you into making a difference in a child’s life. You very well might just be the angel the child has been waiting for.
In the Philippines, there are over 3,500 new cases of childhood cancer each year. Once diagnosed, these children face one of the most difficult treatments in medical world: chemotherapy. While on treatment, these children lose out on a number of things, like schooling and appetite. But one of the most glaring effects of the treatment is the loss of one’s hair.
In support of the challenges that these children go through, Bruno’s Barbers, the country’s leading barber shop, and Project: Brave Kids, a non-stock non-profit volunteer group helping children with cancer, have teamed up to introduce a unique way of helping children with cancer.
This summer, one can volunteer to have his head shaven; all proceeds will go to the fund to help children receiving chemotherapy treatments at the Philippine Children’s Medical Center. Having one’s head shaven also gets one involved in the cause in a very meaningful way. They come to identify with the cancer patients by personally experiencing a very public aspect of their illness: losing one’s hair.
Paul and Sigrid Perez, lead volunteers of Project: Brave Kids, initiated the shaving donation program to give people an opportunity to show their support for children with cancer, and at the same time be able to raise funds for treatment of indigent patients.
"Children are not supposed to lose their hair. As a matter of fact, everything should still be growing at this stage. But when diagnosed with cancer, life becomes different and difficult for these children. As adults, we can only support them the best possible way. If looking like them – that is being bald is one way of showing support – then I think we are giving these children reasons to fight cancer," says Perez.
There are 10 branches of Bruno’s Barbers located at Alabang Town Center; Commonwealth, Libis; Greenbelt; Greenhills; Ortigas Center; Salcedo Village; Shangri-La Plaza; The Power Plant; and Tomas Morato, Quezon City.
Through this effort, Bruno’s Barbers and Project: Brave Kids hope to give children afflicted with cancer a fighting chance to live their lives to the fullest.
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