Creating memories
I recently joined a group of families on a two-day outing at a hot springs resort in Pansol at Calamba, Laguna. Normally it would have taken me just an hour to drive to Calamba from where I live in Makati. But April and May being school vacation time, family outings are commonplace during weekends, and Pansol is a popular destination. Heavy traffic along the main toll road added 30 minutes to the travel time. Anyway, the resort and the traffic are not what I wish to talk about now.
One family in the group simply amazed me, as the outing was not their first, nor would it be their last this summer. Jeffrey and his wife Sheila are in their late 3o’s and they have one child, pretty 8-year old Trisha, a Barbie doll nut. Jeffrey’s work with the marketing division of a pharmaceutical company, which requires regular visits to out-of-town distributors and retailers, has made him a travel bug. He would bring along his wife and daughter either during official trips or when the travel itch became plain irresistible, which was often. Jeffrey has brought his family to Baguio, Vigan, Cagayan, Bicol, to name only a few. Last Holy Week, they drove all the way from their home in Bulacan to Bacolod City to visit relatives, taking the “nautical highway” starting at Batangas City, crossing the seas by “roro” (roll-on, roll-off) ferries at 3 points (Batangas City-Calapan, Roxas-Caticlan and Iloilo City-Bacolod City), with a layover at Boracay Island to enjoy its powdery white sands. The leisurely land-sea cruise took 7 days.
The video and still photos of their many trips showed the family’s experiences. It’s not difficult to imagine the impact of the travels upon young Trisha’s developing mind. She’s learning a lot from seeing other places, meeting new people, hearing varied dialects, tasting local food and facing different cultures. And the most important of all is experiencing all these together with her Dad and Mom. Her storehouse of childhood memories must surely be filling up to the brim.
Robin Sharma’s book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari has this wonderful advice to parents. Enjoy the gift of your family. Live your children’s childhood. Be a part of the joys of their young years, so that when they shall have grown up, you are part of their childhood memories. Watch them grow up. The best gift you could give to your children is your love, expressed not in words or material things but in concrete deeds of your presence, time, attention and example. Next to God, you family is your life’s purpose and priority.
Jeffrey and Sheila have chosen a distinctive way of bonding with Trisha and adding to her education, not to mention the joyful closeness of the couple I’ve been observing.
I’d very much recommend this to my daughter Anna and her husband Pius once their son Aidan gets to walking age.
One family in the group simply amazed me, as the outing was not their first, nor would it be their last this summer. Jeffrey and his wife Sheila are in their late 3o’s and they have one child, pretty 8-year old Trisha, a Barbie doll nut. Jeffrey’s work with the marketing division of a pharmaceutical company, which requires regular visits to out-of-town distributors and retailers, has made him a travel bug. He would bring along his wife and daughter either during official trips or when the travel itch became plain irresistible, which was often. Jeffrey has brought his family to Baguio, Vigan, Cagayan, Bicol, to name only a few. Last Holy Week, they drove all the way from their home in Bulacan to Bacolod City to visit relatives, taking the “nautical highway” starting at Batangas City, crossing the seas by “roro” (roll-on, roll-off) ferries at 3 points (Batangas City-Calapan, Roxas-Caticlan and Iloilo City-Bacolod City), with a layover at Boracay Island to enjoy its powdery white sands. The leisurely land-sea cruise took 7 days.
The video and still photos of their many trips showed the family’s experiences. It’s not difficult to imagine the impact of the travels upon young Trisha’s developing mind. She’s learning a lot from seeing other places, meeting new people, hearing varied dialects, tasting local food and facing different cultures. And the most important of all is experiencing all these together with her Dad and Mom. Her storehouse of childhood memories must surely be filling up to the brim.
Robin Sharma’s book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari has this wonderful advice to parents. Enjoy the gift of your family. Live your children’s childhood. Be a part of the joys of their young years, so that when they shall have grown up, you are part of their childhood memories. Watch them grow up. The best gift you could give to your children is your love, expressed not in words or material things but in concrete deeds of your presence, time, attention and example. Next to God, you family is your life’s purpose and priority.
Jeffrey and Sheila have chosen a distinctive way of bonding with Trisha and adding to her education, not to mention the joyful closeness of the couple I’ve been observing.
I’d very much recommend this to my daughter Anna and her husband Pius once their son Aidan gets to walking age.
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