Sunday Family Day and Letting Our Kids Enjoy their Childhood

Is it the start of the rainy season already? It rained the whole day yesterday and today's a bit gloomy also. It feels good because coming from a very hot summer that caused farmers to stop planting due to lack of water..well, hurray! for the rain right?

Well, anyway, let's get back to our topic for today. We went to "Manlingin Falls" at Cortes, Bohol for our Sunday getaway. I was so right when I did not confirm to an invitation from a workmate's fiesta because I had a feeling that we'll spend the Sunday with the family.

I guess that outing was our way of bidding farewell to Nang Daday who by the way is flying back to Abu Dhabi this coming Thursday, May 26, 2016 to look for a better job. We will definitely miss her again especially the kids whom she look after ever since she came home last October. But we'll pray that she'll going to find a better job, a good paying one than what she had before. All our hopes and well wishes for her.

Manlingin falls, is far from their main road, we have to walk for like half a kilometer because we cant bring with us our ride because the road is so narrow. Loaded with the stuff that we brought along, we patiently walked and walked, until we arrived at our destination. Not that overly amazing but just enough to cool us down from the very angry heat of the sun.  As I have mentioned earlier, it was a Sunday so there were plenty of people. No vacant cottage that can accommodate our group, which consisted mostly of kids who were all excited to take a dip.

Here are some photos I took.

stop over at Corella public market to buy food

borlogs na padung pa lang gani

We did stayed long though, after lunch, enjoyed the cold water and then we headed home already. 

I also included in the title about letting our kids be kids and let them enjoy their childhood because as you can see in the photos above, my unica hija loves the waters so much, may it be beach, pool or falls like this one. I let her enjoy or shall I say, we let her enjoy. I am not the over protective type of a parent who won't let their kids stay under the heat of the sun and prefers them playing video games instead. Although, I take some precautionary measures like I will only allow her to swim under the heat of the sun if I already applied sunscreen protection, or I wont let her in the water all by herself, I always make sure that there's an adult with her or at least watching over her or them for that matter. 

Though sometimes, me and Papay will argue on our ways of disciplining our only child, but safe to say that we're one on this aspect. Sometimes, we will talk over some things with regards to our daughter. It's normal. We have to be on one side with regards to our daughter. I always make sure that I'll explain to him why I am letting this one go or why am I saying YES to his NO.

Our only child is on her age where in the things she'll be doing at this stage will already be a part of her childhood memories, that's why we are letting her be. If at times she'll skip taking naps in the afternoon because she wants to play outside with her cousins, we let her. We were like her when we were her age anyway.  Letting her enjoy her childhood is different from just letting her. We let her play outside, get dirty, scratch her legs, fight with other kids, (that's just normal as a child) but we have to check on her every now and then, because we also have to safeguard them from outside dangers.

I know summer is almost over and she's getting back to school already, playtime will already be limited, so why hinder the time that she has now, right? Her skin may be so many shades darker now, but who cares? All I know is that she enjoyed her summer so much and I am so happy for her.

Enjoy,

Mamay