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                    [Title] => A boy’s gift of hope
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A superhero celebrated his first anniversary on Dec. 16.


Super Benj is Benjamin Ryan, five, youngest son of Anthony and Maricel-Laxa Pangilinan.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1489885 [AuthorName] => Maria Rosalynd Venus B. Coraza [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293239 [Title] => 2 of 10 don't consider parents as role models [Summary] => Only two out of 10 children today look up to their parents as role models, superheroes and all around good guys, unlike twenty years ago, this according to a survey conducted by the Parenting Company.

Such decline on how children look up to their parents can be traced to the latter's lack of time to pay full attention to their children and establish bonding, says Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan, author of " Mommy Talk", and founder of the Parenting Company.
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Some great truths about life that children have learned: [DatePublished] => 2002-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134806 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1528956 [AuthorName] => MOMMY TALK By Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161028 [Title] => A mother first [Summary] => When Maricel Laxa returned to the country from the US in the late 1980s to pursue a career in show business, the local entertainment scene didn’t seem ready for her. First of all, she had a twang. Then, her hair was dyed brown – the shade of which was the color of a dead rat. Her biggest disadvantage, however, was that she was forever being compared to her mother, actress Imelda Ilanan, who was always in the most beautiful faces list in the late ’60s.
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                    [Title] => A boy’s gift of hope
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A superhero celebrated his first anniversary on Dec. 16.


Super Benj is Benjamin Ryan, five, youngest son of Anthony and Maricel-Laxa Pangilinan.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1489885 [AuthorName] => Maria Rosalynd Venus B. Coraza [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293239 [Title] => 2 of 10 don't consider parents as role models [Summary] => Only two out of 10 children today look up to their parents as role models, superheroes and all around good guys, unlike twenty years ago, this according to a survey conducted by the Parenting Company.

Such decline on how children look up to their parents can be traced to the latter's lack of time to pay full attention to their children and establish bonding, says Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan, author of " Mommy Talk", and founder of the Parenting Company.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163382 [Title] => A stage mother’s pride and joy [Summary] => As soon as my daughter, Ella learned that her ballet class summer program would end with a recital, she pleaded with us to allow her to join. I hesitated because I knew that it would require her to be present for practices and the additional expense would affect our budget considering that three of my children will be going to school this year. [DatePublished] => 2002-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134806 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1528956 [AuthorName] => MOMMY TALK By Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161693 [Title] => Learning from our babes [Summary] => I had a truly memorable moment while watching my nieces and nephews swim with my kids at my in-laws’ compound. They told me that they had chanced upon the musings of different kids in my book Mommy Talk. They had a lot of laughs sharing different anecdotes from parents about their children’s kid speak. I felt glad that they enjoyed that part and would like to share more of those wise sayings…from the mouths of babes. But first let me share with you something interesting I got in my e-mail.

Some great truths about life that children have learned: [DatePublished] => 2002-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134806 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1528956 [AuthorName] => MOMMY TALK By Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161028 [Title] => A mother first [Summary] => When Maricel Laxa returned to the country from the US in the late 1980s to pursue a career in show business, the local entertainment scene didn’t seem ready for her. First of all, she had a twang. Then, her hair was dyed brown – the shade of which was the color of a dead rat. Her biggest disadvantage, however, was that she was forever being compared to her mother, actress Imelda Ilanan, who was always in the most beautiful faces list in the late ’60s.
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[DatePublished] => 2001-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134806 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1528869 [AuthorName] => MOMMY TALK By Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) ) )
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