Angelina Jolie -- the mom

I was bloghopping today and hopped onto this post of Angelina Jolie and Bradd Pitt's family pictures. All 6 kids (yes including the famous-before-birth-twins) and of course the most beautiful parents in the world :p

I keep thinking about reasons why Angelina Jolie would adopt Maddox before, a lot speculated it's a publicity stunt, a very dangerous stunt if I may say. Then again, Jolie was still a bit known for her notorious attitude then - the young Billy Bob Thornton other half who would french kiss in public.

I was afraid the poor cambodian kid would only be abandoned or live a very "hollywood" life. Obviously, I was reading the book by its cover. Now that she (and partner Bradd Pitt)have a total of 6 beautiful kids, it's pretty obvious she really wanted children. Maybe Maddox was "experimental", maybe she really wanted to sort of revamp her life and be a mom.

When I looked at the pictures from that post (see link up there) I saw a wonderful family. Looks like she (and Pitt) has done a wonderful job raising multi-cultural kids. Sure they didn't grow up knowing their real cultures, but the pysical appearance alone should prompt them to ask quite a few questions.

I know these kids were also born in different countries and would go with their parents all over the world too so they KNOW different countries have different cultures and different physical appearances.

The mix of their colors on that one family picture they had (Maddox and Shiloh were lying down) is one of the most beautiful mix I've ever seen. Especially knowing that this is just one family.

Their kids will definitely be a new generation of Human Rights Advocates and no doubt will fight against Racism.

Whether Jolie started this as a publicity stunt or not, what matters now is how she's bringing these kids up which I assume is just awesome. I guess maybe, except for all the luxury they have, they would be growing up knowing so much that the typical 1st-world-country-child would. they go to Africa with their parents on some of their missions/advocacies -- need they explain more?

Kids and Clowns

I don't know about you but Clowns, freak me out! I don't know which started -- happy clowns that started to create phobias with kids, or just some really freaky clowns that were meant to scare.

I know there are quite a few movies that used clowns to freak the audience out -- err.. Stephen King's IT for example.

Since I was a kid, Clowns have always freaked me out, much like any huge mascot did... the difference is that while I was growing older, I grew fond of mascots and I realized they're just huge pile of cloth and cardboards and stuff worn by another person. Clowns on the other hand still freaked me out! which is funny because clowns ARE people with only make up and colorful clothes on.

Anyway, I'm saying this because last saturday was my youngest cousin's 7th birthday and her mom hired 2 clowns to host the program and well... half the kids ran to their mommies and daddies scared of the clowns!

In the end, they had to start the party with only umm less than 10 kids because the rest either stayed inside the house or went home (they were neighbors :p) instead. My older cousins -- the teens hahah -- had to "sub" for the other kids and played with the smaller ones because otherwise, it would've been boring.

I actually thought Ziggy would freak out too! But he didn't! I wasn't sure if his shades helped him (he wore his shades all throughout the party hahah) or he just didn't think clowns were freaky because he watches this show "Jojo Circus" at Playhouse Disney Channel.


He's actually cool with the clowns! :p

What is it with clowns??

Don't Tell Me What To Do...

The other day while the little rascal was jumping up and down the bed and throwing things to the wall (including poor ol' Woody & Buzz) I reprimanded him and told him NOT to jump.

He didn't seem to hear me so I repeated myself.

Would you believe it he shushed me and put his hand up to me as if to say wait.

The next words were something I NEVER Expected to hear...

"Don't tell me what to do" he said it pretty calmly and carefully so I didn't know what to make of it!

I wanted to both laugh and get mad at him for saying that to his mom!

Then again I realized, he probably doesn't understand the impact of those words especially when a child is saying it to his/her parent. I honestly didn't know what to say. It was difficult to regain composure and calmly tell him you are telling him the right thing to do and that from now, until he has a better understanding of right from wrong, mommy will say what he has to do.

I couldn't wrap my head around it. I tried to think of places or shows maybe movies he's watched where he heard those words, but I'm pretty sure there's none especially since we're together everyday for the past 3 weeks. Then I realized he probably heard it from another kid in school.

You can't control everything your child hears, watches or sees!

*sigh* kids do say the darndest things...

Parenting a parent (huh?)

How many times have you irked at how your mum would tell you how to be a parent??

I've had so much of those the past week when my child was sick and ooooohhhh I sometimes just couldn't stand it!

For a few months at a time, my parents were in Australia leaving me and my sisters alone most of the time since long distance phone calls were expensiv and they wouldn't bother learning how to IM

Whenever that was true, i was a peaceful and happy mommy even when my child was sick. Sure, it's nice to have another parent nearby when things like these come up especially since I've only been a mother for as long as my child has been living but, it's only nice if they only tell you when asked.

My dearest mother on the other hand would be bugging me every hour to ask how his fever is and would constantly ask me to bring my son to the doctor after only 24 hours of on and off fever. She of all people in the house should know (after 4 kids!!) that we don't have to bring them to the doctor unless the fever's been persisitent the past 72 hours OR there's an accompanying symptom (aside from colds) -- none of those were true so I didn't really panic as much as she did.

Sure her concern was touching but you do get irritated at times. A part of you feels as if you're being understimated as a mom, a part of you feels as if you're completely ignored at all!

When I do leave my kid to her for even just an hour when I need to run errands or go to church, I'd find out she's done a dozen other things already to the kid -- mostly non-detrimental to his health, but still annoying to the mom

ayayayayay..

you know that the intentions are pure and just concerned for their one and only godson (and only "son" for that matter), but how do you stop them and assure them you DO CARE for your son!

I hope I won't do this to my son or (possible daughter?) when I become a grandma..