Gender is the very first label we receive as we enter the world, but that's a mentality which has been challenged in recent years. As early as four months, babies are segregated into a box that contains them in a specific mold—either the pink or blue and nothing in between, but do they need to be? And by just knowing the sex, people, including parents, already have a predisposed way of how to treat a baby. Boys are meant to be tough and stoic while girls should be reserved and nurturing, and if

As moms who rarely have time to socialize, let alone get a moment for ourselves, we can always find ourselves scrolling through our social media feeds from time to time, particularly Instagram. Cooking dinner? You perhaps once shared it in your Stories. Baby just started to walk? It's memorialized in a perfect little square on your feed for sure. Instagram has been a popular favorite for everyone, most especially among social media savvy mothers. It's an undeniable fact that we ubiquitously pop

Humans have long been obsessed with beauty. Early Egyptians revered youthful, slim women who had golden skin, much like Cleopatra. In the ancient Greek times, beauty meant having fire-red locks, full-figured body, and a proportionate face enough to launch a thousand ships. Throughout history and perhaps, even to this day, this obsession has been even more amplified, thanks to social media. The thing is physical beauty is temporary. It fades. It goes out of fashion. Suffice it to say, serving pre

It’s fascinating how each one of us humans has a personality that is uniquely our own. We’re born to be different and this complexity has long baffled experts how we entirely end up being our unique selves. Science says we can attribute this to nature. Mother nature made us biologically distinct, with every human designed to a unique DNA make-up. Even identical twins, who are developed from one zygote, aren’t genetically one and the same. We can also attribute our distinctiveness to nurture. We

Despite the backaches and leg cramps, relentless vomiting, and inability to see (and get) anything that’s below a poking tummy, there’s nothing more beautiful than pregnancy. Carrying a child is truly a one-of-a-kind experience for women. There may be a little bit—or let’s be honest, a lot—of inconvenience for women as they carry their precious cargos, but those nine months are full of magical moments that you will treasure one day and make you say “I miss being pregnant.” But when it's the fi

We can’t always keep our kids close to us. In a matter of time, they’ll eventually have to join another family apart from their own—a school, that is. School may be the second place your kids will spend time the most. If you do the math, a person could spend about 16,000 hours in a lifetime at school. It’s also a place where they will continue to learn in every aspect, mostly without parents’ supervision.

It’s safe to say that more mothers in this generation consider breastfeeding their child. Two generations ago, families believed that there were exceptional replacements for breastmilk. But now, the times have changed and more mothers know better than this. The benefits of breastfeeding are undeniable — it’s one collective reason a lot of mothers bet on everything to give this liquid gold. Not only does it serve as a great food and medicine, breastfeeding also fosters mother-and-child bonding a

For the longest time, Queen Elizabeth has served as the sovereign of the British monarchy whose presence has made a significant contribution to Britain’s rich culture and history. She has been the queen for 65 years and was born even before three of the last four British prime ministers have been, making her the longest-reigning monarch at the age of 91. Queen Elizabeth has outlived many of her contemporaries, and suffice to say, has lived a life full of remembrance. But the queen can only live

As the eldest of three girls, I have heard the phrase “kababae mong tao”, a thousand times. When I wanted to roughhouse with boys my age, I would be reprimanded by my grandfather and told to go inside and play with my dolls, or play bahay-bahayan and lutu-lutuan (home-making and cooking roleplay). “Kababae mong tao, laro ka ng laro sa labas,” he’d say. (“You’re a girl yet you play so much outside.”) For all his scolding, I never heard the same being said to any of the boys I knew and because of

From Adelson to Zuckerberg and everyone in between - the country's one percenters are richer than ever with a $2.34 trillion net worth all combined, says the 34th annual Forbes List 400 released Tuesday, which tallies up the top 400 Americans with the fattest wallets and heftiest bank accounts. This year's total net worth of the top 400 is up by $50 billion as compared to last year's and as much as it's hard to produce that huge amount of money, it was also as hard for the billionaires to make