Why you should avoid the habit of skipping your breakfast?

October 28, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 7 Comments

Do you eat breakfast in the morning to start your day? If your answer is no, then you must change that way of life! If your answer is yes, well, congratulations, you’re doing the right thing! Last night, husband and I had a conversation about this. We discussed the importance of eating breakfast, the time we should sleep at night to wake up early in the morning to attend our breakfast and the food that are included in the meal. Is it significant? Yes, it is. Specially if you have children at home, you have to train them to eat breakfast because it matters a lot to our health and there are also many consequences that may occur if you keep skipping your breakfast.

Here are the importance of eating our breakfast daily:

Breakfast is the best meal of the day, but often neglected because of various personal reasons.
We sleep for about 8 hours or more during the night, so it’s significant to eat in the morning to fill the fasting period of a no food and water intake during the night.
To start the day right, you need to supply your stomach with nutrient dense foods to help your body get the alertness and energy it needs. It improves our memory and concentration levels, your brain and other organs will function well if it is fueled with essential nutrients.
It helps with our body’s metabolism. Therefore, it will help your body to burn more calories throughout the day.
Furthermore, it encourages a healthier eating habit and good attitude towards food.
Not only that, but it helps to balance blood sugar levels and helps you to avoid many diseases link to skipping breakfast like diabetes, obesity, heart diseases, irritability, being moody, low-energy levels, stress and poor memory.

Fill your breakfast with a meal that has a balanced food nutrients, include in your plate energy boosting foods (like rice, bread, or pasta), body building foods (like eggs, meat, fish) and body regulating foods (like fruits and vegetables). We have a different eating options on what to include in our meal, but consider to include those three food groups because they are vital in our diet.

Note: Excessive consumption of food is not good to our health and can bring a negative result or bad effects in our body. Always eat the right kind and the right amount of food.

Here are some tips in order to get into that breakfast:

Plan your breakfast ahead, decide what to cook and prepare for tomorrow’s meal. To avoid running out of time thinking and preparing. Do not sleep late in the evening in order for you not to skip meal, sleeping late will bring about waking up late also.
Sometimes this is the reason some of us tend to skip breakfast and just eat the breakfast and lunch “brunch” together.
Just eat a light meal at night, avoid heavy meals because it will lower your appetite in the morning when eating your breakfast.
Maintain and repeat every day.

Health benefits of having a dog in the house

October 23, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 6 Comments

Do you have a dog/dogs at home? Do we need to treat them as one of our family members too? Just like human beings, we also have to take good care of our pets. They need to be treated also as a part of a family, not just as a pet that serves as a happy companion in the house. They are a blessing from above. So, we have to love them as well. Furthermore, they all have something to impart in our life.

Here are some of the health benefits that a dog can give to the owner:

According to studies, the bond between the dog and the owner can increase physical fitness. Brisk walking with your dog early in the morning can help your blood to circulate well. They motivate you to exercise and can help you achieve overall health.
A dog can boost your mental health, relieves your stress and anxiety in life.
They can help with your emotional health too, they lessen or removes your feeling of loneliness. Gives you comfort and love, thus making you happy daily.
They also can help with your social well-being, when you walk around with your dog in the park, there are high chances that you can also meet other pet owners who can talk and socialize with you.
A dog can also help you with the feeling of security, they have a heightened sense of hearing and smelling which can alert you of a danger.

Tips to consider in achieving a happily ever after in married life

October 20, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 4 Comments

Are you happy or struggling in your married life? Read this INFINITE love advices that can help you achieve a good definition of marriage.

A marriage is the union between a man and a woman. It’s the beginning of creating a family on your own, and it’s a lifelong commitment. So, be sure to commit yourself faithfully to your husband or wife. It’s not just a physical or emotional attachment. It’s not just about the feelings, saying those heart melting words everyday coming from each other’s mouth, but it’s also a matter of mental, social, and spiritual attachment.

Consider these INFINITE love advices below:

It is important to give each other lots of mutual love, respect, and trust that is loaded with essential amount of compassionate heart and mind.
Note that you should choose to fall in love for the same person you exchanged vows with, remember that feeling when the two of you exchanged the promises of love? The excitement, the happiness, the sounds of your pumping heart saying that “lub-dub”, and the feeling of butterflies in your stomach? These are good memories to remember, isn’t it?
Feed your relationship with a supplemental dose of admiration and pour a never-ending love and care into your relationship. Be the best teammate or team buddy for your spouse that he/she will ever have!
Incorporate happiness, make countless memories of togetherness. Bonding is an essential part of any relationship. You get to know more about your partner, and when you grow old you can share beautiful memories with your children.
Never be tired of forgiving each other’s mistakes, forgive them when they let you down. This is just a normal scenario, sometimes what seems a mistake for you doesn’t seem a mistake on your partner’s perception. What’s important is to inform him/her and be clear about it.
Inculcate in your mind to keep a promise of never giving up on each other. You may disagree on numerous things, but be sure to keep agreeing of never leaving and never giving up on your relationship.
There are no perfect marriage, but there is a good marriage. Note that good marriage isn’t something you’ll just find a long the way, it is something beautifully made and created by two hearts and souls willing to build each other despite differences.
Eliminate your pride, step down to let them shine too, be a cheerleader he/she can lean on. Occasionally, a couple were not equal regarding personal matters, how they think, their financial status, and in terms of professional identity. But be reminded that when you entered a marriage, you are unified and blessed as “one body and soul”.

Friendly tips for a healthy food preparation and cooking

October 18, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Do you really prepared the food clean and safe to eat? Foods are the fuel of a human body to make its daily function and activities. We have to eat nutritious food because they are essential in bringing natural vitamins and minerals that are needed in order for our body to gain energy. To achieve a good immunity as we go all day long, but we also have to make sure that our food preparation and cooking is right.

There are many cooking methods out there like baking, frying, broiling, stewing, braising, simmering, roasting, grilling, frying etc. Cooking methods depend on what the recipe need, but whatever you are about to prepare, make sure to consider these tips below about food preparation and cooking:

Cleanliness- to start with a healthy food preparation, always wash carefully your ingredients such as vegetables, fruits, fish, meat products etc. Wash your hands to eliminate germs and harmful microorganisms before cooking.
Buy fresh ingredients or food products- because they contain a good amount of health benefits compared to those stored in the refrigerator for a few days or a long time already.
Know your ingredients- What are the nutrients you can get from it?
Follow your recipe- to achieve the desired recipe outcome, do not be rushing in cooking your recipe.
Read food labels and consider using those with health benefits on it. Example, cooking oil (you may want to consider vegetable oil and other types of healthy oil), salt (you may want to consider iodized salt) and you may also want to consider those organically made products.
Enjoy and be happy while cooking- some says that if you are happy while cooking, you can get a good result or outcome of the recipe. It will also lessen your stress points, we all know that cooking in the kitchen have numerous things that you have to do, from cleaning the ingredients, to cooking, washing of the dishes and serving the food.
Serve food with an art- to make the food more enjoyable to eat, you may want to serve it in a nice bowl or plate with your creative touch.

A good note to remember: “Excessive consumption of food is not good to our health and can bring a negative result or bad effects on our body. Always eat the right kind and the right amount of food”.

Six steps for a better you

October 14, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 8 Comments

How do you feel about yourself at the moment? Are you satisfied or regretful? Think about this, we can never get back what is already done, we cannot be sure of what will happen in the future, but we can always make the moment, the most beautiful and fulfilling one. There will always be something which you can be proud of yourself, just learn to recognize it!

When we were young, we had many dreams regarding the profession, job, or the person that we wanted to be in the future. We want to travel, to explore life’s gifts. We want to do this and that, but every so often what we dreamed of turns to be an opposite of what we are today. Sometimes because of this, we tend to have numerous frustrations and insecurities in life. We tend to compare ourselves to other people. But what you have to do now is to forgive yourself to free your mind and heart of any hard emotions you are carrying. Don’t feel broke for the rest of your life, remember that as long as you are alive, there would always be a chance to make it! There will always be a chance to do something which you will be proud of yourself. Bring yourself to life, and help yourself, help that person transform of whom you wanted him or her to be.

Consider these six steps for a better you. YOU CAN make it happen!

You need to verify your emotions, what makes you feel regretful? What makes you hold on these emotions
Once you recognized it, ask this to yourself (why did I fail in this goal or journey?) it will be easier for you to do some sort of repair.
Understand and consider it as a form of life’s lesson- learn from it and try to start over again, start from small and achievable goals, with this you will learn to appreciate small achievements.
Consider avoiding self-criticism- to uplift your morale, avoid being an enemy of yourself. Look into the mirror and tell that person, you are forgiven! Forgive also those people who had something to caused your failures.
Avoid too much guilt and have a positive self. Don’t lose your hope yet, you can still do more! Move on, do not hold it longer- it won’t do any good if you indulge too much attention to what was already done.
Now that you already recognized what’s wrong, next time when you are on your way to another goal or ambition, you already know what to avoid in the process.

Just take it one day at a time

October 11, 2020September 17, 2022 by MJMCM ♥ 4 Comments

Are you the type of person that is always worrying about what will come or will happen tomorrow? Maybe some of you already have heard about this phrase. “Just take it one day at a time”. This phrase, teaches us to enjoy each day by not worrying of what will happen next, to live a happy life each day and to be able to enjoy the moment.

Here are some friendly notes that would help you achieve this daily:

“ONE DAY AT A TIME“.

Offer yourself relaxation techniques- (such as deep breathing, meditation and yoga) to relax your mind, body, and spirit.
Never allow yourself to indulge in too much worrying- it’s normal to feel this emotion, but it should easily disappear, and you should be able to handle it without stressing too much.
Energized your body- feed your body with fruits and vegetables. They are nutrient rich foods that would help your system to cheer up.
Deal with your problems responsibly, you have to accept it that no one will be going to do it apart from yourself, find a solution and always be calm in dealing with it.
Aim for achievable goals- do not do things which are beyond your expectations. Just focus on the things you know you can achieve to avoid frustration.
Yes to a happy day ahead!- keep this in mind as it will motivate you to keep going and be productive all day long.
Accept advice and support from the right people- some people are there ready to help you, appreciate and be thankful for their positive intentions.
Time is important- time spent today will never come back again. So, what you have to do is to use it wisely on the things that are most valuable to you.
Accept responsibility- we have daily responsibilities. What we need to do is to accept it and be optimistic about it.
The power of praising yourself- never end a day without praising yourself for a job well done.
Inculcate in your mind the virtue of patience- this is a challenge that we have to fulfill daily, some of us are always rushing to see results which makes us uncomfortable and brings worries and frustrations in our head.
Maintain positive life- being positive and having a cheerful outlook in life is significant because it lightens our daily loads.
Enhance your capability and thinking- read more, search more and do your best!

How to be a good teacher of your child at home

October 9, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 6 Comments

Here are some friendly reminders on how to be a good teacher or educator of your child at home. It is not that easy, but it’s not also too difficult, we just have to love and absorb this duty. We need to help our child focus and learn in order for them to achieve whatever goals their heart and mind will desire.

Read this “LET US STUDY” tips.

Love what you are doing -teaching your child is one of your role at home, you as the home teacher will need to be flexible enough in order to teach effectively. Have a good mind setting about it, accept the role and be positive.
Educate your child by starting from where he/she is weak in order for him to learn more on the things which he or she is less capable.
Time- set a time management for a routinely activities at home, including your time spend for teaching your child. We all know that at home there are chores that we need to finish. You really need to organize your schedule in order to avoid stress and running out of time that should be set for the child’s lesson.
Understand your role- as parent, we have to understand that we are part of our child’s journey in education. Utilize your knowledge and experiences and use it in helping your child to study.
Set a rule- you need to do this as your child’s teacher or educator at home, your child should realize that there is a time for everything. Time for study is not a time to play or do unnecessary things. It will also help him to focus on studying.
Set a good place- a good environment is conducive for learning, be sure to set a clean (meaning no scattered materials like toys and other things), and peaceful area (no form of noise that would serve as a destruction while you’re teaching your child a lesson).
Teach effectively- prior to teaching you need to read and understand what you will be going to discuss in order for it to be effective.
Utilize book materials- do not just make books as a display or something to scan at first then no more, it should be used well. Go over the activities that the book or module have and facilitate your child in doing it.
Develop your child’s love for learning- provide an active form of teaching, ask questions and let your child answer it. Do not scold him or her if he or she makes a mistake, you should be patient to discuss the right answer and explain why that is the correct answer.
You should develop a knowledge seeking behavior too- research helpful information which you can use in teaching your child.

If you are tired, get some rest, life is like a long road

October 6, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 6 Comments

It’s a beautiful day, as I walk going outside to buy some food to the nearby food store this morning. I saw a woman sitting in a chair near the gate. She looks so tired, sweaty, and looking down at her feet while stretching her arms. Perhaps she was so tired carrying her loads (the things she bought). She has two echo bags beside her, and she looks so deep. She might be thinking of what to cook or prepare for their meal. Furthermore, she might be thinking about her problems. Likewise, she might be thinking about life, or she might be thinking about other people whom she is serving or obliged to serve.

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All of these are just “might” because I don’t know what the woman is thinking at the moment, but if you look into her eyes, you will guess some. Every so often we can see it through the eyes what the heart wants to tell, and the body feels like. As I walk near her, I smiled and asked if she is fine. The woman answered me back, I’m fine, don’t worry, I just have to seat for a while, I think I need a moment to rest my feet, before walking again to reach our home, she said. This time we cannot ride any passenger vehicle to reach our home, it’s not allowed yet in our community because of the current situation regarding Covid-19 (I wrote this post during the pandemic). For me, it’s ok because I loved brisk walking anyway. Brisk walking is a good form of exercise that could benefit our body. It can contribute in achieving a healthy mind, it’s a good stress reliever, it’s a way for me to breathe some fresh air outside, and it also helps our body achieve a good blood circulation.

I told her, take time and take care Auntie, walk again when you already feel energized, she said thank you. Then I continued to walk, going to the food store. Going home, I reflected about the woman, I don’t know her personally, but she is one representation of a life’s journey, I think in life we really need to take time, we must not be rushing. Taking time means you don’t need to race, you don’t need to move fast, it’s ok to be slow, it’s ok to be late, you don’t need to rush. It’s ok to take the long road, and it’s ok not to be ok.

With all the pressures and challenges around us. We seem to compete, we seem to be proving ourselves to other people. You don’t need to prove yourself to other people, you don’t need to do things to be praise by anybody or anyone. If you are tired, then get some rest, get some moment to free yourself from worries and to energize your mind and body. You only have one body to maintain for a lifetime. When this body exhausted, you will experience a lot of health problems that might give you a flashback to how you treated it, so take care of it, appreciate and love that one body.

Advantages and disadvantages of home schooling

October 3, 2020March 25, 2024 by MJMCM ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Homeschooling is a method of teaching your child or children at home regarding their school subjects. The teacher is basically one of the guardian (mother, father), anyone at home who can teach or a private tutor. It needs one to be motivated to teach in order for it to be effective. It includes modular form, online and blended form of learning. There are already some parents who choose to homeschool their children, maybe because they are more comfortable with this kind of education.

Here are the advantages and disadvantages of this type of learning:

Advantages:

It can offer an educational freedom, and it is flexible. The student and the educator can choose the time that is more comfortable to study.
Parents can be able to focus on the things they want to add to their child’s education aside from the lessons on the book or module.
Beneficial for the learner because he or she is the center of attention and he or she can absorb numerous learnings (depending on how you teach, and depending on the learning attitude of the child).
Practical because parents can save for transportation, uniforms, and other miscellaneous expenses.
Parents can be comfortable of their child’s emotional security.
There is an assurance of safety.

Disadvantages:

One guardian needs to sacrifice a job or career to focus on the child’s education, thus sacrificing an increase in family income.
The social life of the child has minimal exploration. Yes, he or she can play outside with friends, but the learning inside the school and at home is different. The child needs to socialize with children of his or her same age.
The child couldn’t be able to explore school facilities (like library, computer or science laboratories, school playground etc.) which are needed to enhance his or her knowledge.
The child will have a limited experience of the real world, we need to explore them to a real teacher, schoolmates, and playmates at a regular time, to prepare them for the challenges outside the home.

Whatever your reasons or whatever you choose as a form of educating your child, it will always be respected. Just consider choosing what suits your preference, budget, and you must also consider your child’s thoughts or decisions about it. If he wants to be homeschooled or if he wants to go to a physical school, like private or public school because these factors also matter.

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