August Giveaway! - With A Winner

We’ll start August with a bang!  Another set of Star City Ride-All-You-Can Passes.  One lucky reader will be entilted to 6 (six) Star City Ride-All-You-Can passes.  All you have to do is join via rafflecopter below.

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All About Kids Bazaar

This August 9, Working Mom magazine is bringing moms and kids a fun and magical shopping experience like no other as it launches the All About Kids bazaar at the Rockwell Tent.

All About Kids bazaar will offer that perfect dose of family fun, with big, big discounts to boot. Apart from games and demos for all kids to enjoy with their families, parents can dig into all their favorite kiddie brands as they go on sale.

Apart from all these, the All About Kids bazaar, which will be hosted by Jackie Lou Blanco, will have an arts and crafts booth, magic shows, bubble tricks, balloon twisters, and other amazing performances. Even a mom and kid pampering booth will be set up to give moms on the go that perfect chance to slow down with their loved ones. Apart from all these, kids will get the unique chance of meeting two of their favorite cartoon characters, SpongebobSquarepants and Patrick Star!

This year’s All About Kids bazaar will also be where Working Mom will hold an online photo promo. To join, simply visit and like Working Mom’s official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/workingmom.magazine), take a photo during the event, and tag Working Mom with the hashtags #workingmommag and #allaboutkids. Special gifts will be given to selected photos.

All this and more will be happening on August 9 at the Rockwell Tent from 11:00am to 7:00pm. To enter, each family must simply present a copy of Working Mom’s latest August issue, which is available at leading bookstores and magazine stands nationwide.

Ogalala Workshop

Neo and I are one of the lucky parent and child tandem who were invited to attend Ogalala’s Workshop last Saturday at SM Megamall.  We were quite a bit late, but nonetheless, I learned a lot of things and Neo enjoyed every bit of the workshop.

What is Ogalala?

Derived from the native American Indian term for an underwater irrigation system, Ogalala brings forth life for kids in the form of play, fashion, and exploration. It is a portfolio of global play and fashion brands.

It is a brand, therefore, that lets kids be kids, while assuring parents that they are “investing” in a brand that lets their children become warm, light-hearted, curious, and global.

The Ogalala System in Play

The Rationale – Children learn through play - that’s a fact. They also have different ways of learning. While there are general ways that kids learn, one method may not always apply to another child. And as O. Ivar Lovaas, a child development expert, said: “If they can’t learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.”

This branded system groups together insights, activities, and tools appropriate for each child’s growth stage. IGM recognizes that there are 4 important development areas in a child’s growth: physical, intellectual, language, and social & emotional. While our children naturally develop, and with the help of schooling when they reach a certain age, each of them is still unique. Kids advance per growth stage in their own phase, and our job as parents is to make sure they grow up happy and fulfilled.

What are the brands under Ogalala?

Crayola

Melissa and Doug

Baby Einstein

Artec

COG

Emco

Canal

Animal Planet and Discovery Kids

Now, back to the workshop.  Teacher Maia, the facilitator, told us that learning while playing can help develop our kids develop their intellect and fine motor skills.  Whats more, it also develop our kids social intelligence by playing and learning with other kids.

Neo, with the other kids, learning through playing using Ogalala’s products.  He enjoyed it so much.

There were a lot of activities that the kids (Neo with them) did using Ogalala’s products.  They did stacks, puzzles, colors and a lot more.

The participants.

Thank you, Ogalala for that fun learning activity that Neo had.  J