Happy parents raise happy children

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

About a month or two ago, I was in the bookstore browsing when a book cover caught my eye. I recognized the Blue Bird of Happiness on the cover and saw the title, “The Happiness Project.”

It was an interesting book by Gretchen Rubin, who tried to spend a year doing small simple things to make her feel more joy in her everyday life. While others go off to faraway places like Tuscany or India, Rubin had a point in saying that not everyone can afford to take a year off from their life, and she wanted to find joy in her own life, not outside of it.

If you ask any parent, he/she will tell you that their children are truly the joys of their life, and nothing makes them happier than taking care of their little blessings. And yet, too many times, we let so many opportunities for joy slip by.

There was a line in the book that truly struck me: “The days are long, the years are short. I couldn’t help but think how true it really is! I don’t want to look back and regret even one moment lost.” Continue reading...

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Angolan stuns; Shamcey Supsup shines

Sao Paulo, Brazil—The newly crowned Miss Universe hopes her victory will allow her to assist her native country further escape its history of war and poverty, and believes that  “racists need to seek help” for they are “not normal in the 21st century.”

Angola’s Leila Lopes on Monday night (Tuesday morning in Manila) became the new Miss Universe, edging out beauties from Ukraine, Brazil, the Philippines and China as the pageant marked its 60th anniversary.

The Philippine candidate, 25-year-old Shamcey Supsup, an architecture magna cum laude and native of General Santos City, finished third runner-up in the contest among 89 young women and watched by an estimated one billion people around the world.

Lopes, 25, wearing a glittery strapless gown with feathery fringe, accepted the crown from last year’s winner, Mexico’s Ximena Navarrete, after upsetting a lineup of Latin American beauties who had been favored to win.

Asked in the final round by a Filipino judge, Broadway star Lea Salonga, what physical trait about herself she would change if given the opportunity, Lopes replied: “Nothing, I am satisfied with what God gave me,” and added that it was important to have “inner beauty.”  Read more...

Source:    http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/source/philippine-daily-inquirer

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