Introduction to Above Ruby's Podcast
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Thank you for listening to Above Ruby's podcast, created by a mom for every mom and parents for that matter, embracing parenthood and sanity.
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Here to help you get by through weekly discussions on parenting, relationships, home, and faith as you juggle daily in life.
Meet El Nathan: Daily Life and Challenges
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Hello, good afternoon.
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I am with my son, El Nathan.
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Can you say hello?
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Okay, so for this episode, we really just want to talk.
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I just want to talk about anything.
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First, how are you?
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How are you, Nate?
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What do you do every day?
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I really want to play basketball but it's COVID and I can't go far from my home.
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So, I'm here playing some games.
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What games are you playing today?
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Well, you've tried a lot of games.
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What are you the best games you've tried?
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What do you like about Minecraft?
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For other Minecraft, I like that because you can cheat.
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Is it okay to cheat?
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I can tell the creator, the rules, you can cheat.
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What about in life?
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Is it okay to cheat?
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How do you cheat there?
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Parang nakakatakot naman yung tawag ng cheat.
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No, only slash give.
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Hashtag S64, whatever you want.
Reflecting on Home and School Transitions
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Now, so, you know, we are living here in Bagak, no?
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One year na tayo dito, di ba?
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True that we lived here for one year.
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Yes, one year and June, July, August.
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One year and three months na tayo dito.
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So, how is your experience here so far?
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Do you like it here?
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Do you miss San Mateo?
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I miss and like it here.
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But you also miss San Mateo.
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Pero we are very thankful right now that it's COVID and then we're here because people aren't too many, right?
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Can you tell us about your schooling?
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Anong experience mo sa school nung nakaraan?
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It's good and I'm a little bit nervous that day.
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You're a little nervous?
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That day because I don't know if I can answer all of the questions but I did.
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Then, do you like schooling?
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Sa school mo ngayon?
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What do you miss sa school ngayon na?
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Well, you know what?
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Because dapat ngayon, nag-aaral na kayo ulit, dapat grade 1 na kayo ulit.
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If there's no COVID, dapat nung June pa lang, back to school na kayo.
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But because of COVID, the schooling was also stopped.
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So, kaya na-move siya ng October 5th.
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Kaya siya na-move.
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Do you miss your classmates or what do you... I miss my schoolmates and the things that I learned from school.
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Now, ang magiging setting...
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ng schooling new this year is going to be distance learning.
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Do you know what it is?
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Social distancing?
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It means you will not go to the classroom.
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The classes will just be modular.
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What does that mean?
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It's just a... Parang papel na aralin.
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Parang books lang.
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So... We will teach you.
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And then your teacher will...
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like evaluate what you learn sometimes you may even have what maybe like online meeting with your classmates but only that because it's still COVID How do I know how to online meeting?
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I'll help you of course
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Are you okay with that?
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Okay, that's good because some kids are having a hard time adjusting to that also.
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Yung hindi nakakalabas-labas.
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Medyo mahirap ngayon eh, no?
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Kawawa kayo mga bata kasi hindi kayo basta-basta nakakalabas para maglaro.
Coping with COVID-19 Restrictions
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How do you feel about that?
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I'm a little bit sad but happy at the same time.
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Why happy at the same time?
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Because I can still get out to play and I give a lot of time.
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And what I'm sad because I can't play with my other friends anymore.
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What do you hope that will happen to be able to...
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You can play again.
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You should really lose COVID.
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But COVID is helping us.
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You know what it is.
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No, you have to say it because people will not know.
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Okay, so do not get fat.
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You got fat because of COVID?
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Pumayat tayo down to COVID.
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Kasi hindi tayo medyo nakakalabas, nakakakain sa restaurant, gano'n.
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Then, well, I really hope that, you know, COVID will be over now.
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So, we can't wait now?
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You're going to wait now.
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You're not going to get fat.
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You already have fats here in your tummy.
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And it's really sad a lot of families are losing their loved ones because of COVID.
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Like a lot of people die because of COVID.
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We have to be thankful.
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And malaria, 6,000 deaths.
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Is that per year or what?
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How do we avoid malaria?
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I don't actually know how to stop it.
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But all I know is how to stop it a bit is to not get beat by those langaus.
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And Dengi is responsible for one million deaths yearly.
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Wow, that's a lot of deaths as well.
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But the most deaths is COVID.
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That's why it's important that we don't let yung mga stagnant.
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Kasi doon nakatira yung mga ano eh, doon sa stagnant water.
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You know what's a stagnant water?
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Yung mga hindi nagpo-flow ng mga tubig.
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For example, meron kang tubig dyan sa pail na matagal na siyang nakastock dyan.
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Hindi siya natatapon.
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Iitlo ganyan ng mosquitoes.
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I thought mosquitoes die in water.
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Diyan sila nanganak.
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Our life cycle of mosquitoes, they start.
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The thing, you know, when there's not COVID, ringworms still exist.
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If we touch contaminated objects when there's no COVID, only the ringworm goes into our body.
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But now, when we touch contaminated objects, even the COVID can be passed into our body.
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Just the contaminated objects?
Family Time and Hobbies
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Oy, it's dangerous.
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So we have to be careful with what we touch and what we put in our mouths.
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Some of the things you're saying, I don't know.
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So let's continue praying for the COVID that we're done so we can go back to their jobs.
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We will pray later after our talk.
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But for now, let's talk about, do you still remember the time when he was abroad?
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What do you feel about that?
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And happy because when he is abroad, I couldn't get bored.
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For those listening, bored is the feeling of being a day.
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He doesn't like it.
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But there are times that you like it also.
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How do you like it?
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No, I don't like it.
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Tapos ano yung... Hag lang.
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So who aren't listening right now, Bordix is my father's way to tickle me.
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Yes, Papa's way of tickling Nate.
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So what bonding time do you like to do with Papa if it's not Bordix?
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Do you want to go abroad or go here?
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I'm okay with the board legs.
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You're okay with the board legs?
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I'm a little okay.
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You're a little okay with that?
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But I'm a little sad at the same time.
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Because I hurt Papa.
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Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Pag nasobrahan kang kilit eh.
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But he still calls me the best playmate.
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He calls you the best playmate?
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Do you consider your papa your best playmate?
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More best playmates.
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What do you mean more best playmates?
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I have more best playmates than my father.
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I, so many that I can't even tell you.
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But do you like spending time with Papa playing?
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What activity do you like doing with us?
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Yung tayo, tayong tatlo.
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Anong pinaka gusto mo na ginagawa natin yung tatlo?
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What is the options?
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No, not really options.
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Just based on our experience.
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Oh, okay, okay, okay.
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We spend time to... Hi, Pa.
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We are actually recording.
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Ano na yung usapan natin?
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Ano yung pinakagusto mong activity yung ginagawa nating family based on your experience?
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Ano yung pinakagusto mo na ginagawa natin?
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If you are to ask me, I like it when we go out and, you know, just ride a motorcycle and go places.
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But how about we injure ourselves?
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Have we endured ourselves so far?
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Well, that's sad if we injured ourselves, but Papa is being careful when he's driving, right?
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But when we're four... Oh, it's not okay if there's four of us.
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Only, only, only, only three.
Balancing Technology and Faith
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Okay, now let's talk about your time on mobile because that's our problem, right?
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Because sometimes you're too late when you're on a cell phone.
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Now the problem is, it's not healthy if you're just a, if you just keep on, just,
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using your phone everyday, wala ka na ibang gagawin.
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So how do you think will you make it so that you are balancing your life?
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Yung hindi ka lang puro cellphone.
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Ano sa tingin mo yung mga... If only there wasn't COVID.
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Di ba may court malapit doon?
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Sa likod lang ng stone mansion.
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Saan stone mansion?
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It's not a little far, but not...
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So, because there's nothing like that, what can you do aside from using your phone?
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So, using my phone, outdoor games.
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Outdoor games, like?
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Like, blablantag, tago-taguan, and that's it.
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Now, what do you... Let's talk about discipline because...
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You know, a lot of times we correct you when you do something wrong, right?
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Or, ano... Anong masasabi mo tungkol dyan?
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Do you get mad at us pag napapagalitan ka namin?
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Or... Mad and sad.
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But... Are you okay with us doing that?
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I know that discipline is the way that I can learn.
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And not do it again.
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If we don't stop you from doing the things that are not good, you will think that it's okay.
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So the only way for you to know that it's not good and that you should not keep on doing it is to always remind you.
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Pagkadawas ng libat.
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Now, what do you say about kids that are... Alloying?
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If you meet someone who doesn't know about Jesus yet... Teach him again.
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How are you gonna tell him or her about God?
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Bring the Bible with me.
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And show it to him.
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Maybe he likes it and brings it home.
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But what's the most important thing that they should understand?
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It's that Jesus died for the cross.
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Died on the cross.
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But he rose again.
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After three days, he rose again.
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You're so confused, huh?
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After three days, he rose again.
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And then he will... Heroes.
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Not Superman heroes.
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He rose up from the dead.
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And he is now in heaven, but he is coming back.
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After the big crunch.
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What's big crunch?
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It makes opposite of the bar.
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I mean, di ba nag-expand yung Galaxy?
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So, minsa, pag si-stop yan, tapos, mag si-slow down, tapos stop, tapos, i-reverse yung time cycle niya.
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Babalik sa ano, sa hindi siya nag-expand, tapos...
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All human beings will die in that time.
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What's true is Jesus will come back and there will be a rapture and then Jesus will come back and get his people.
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To be with him in heaven.
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Ah, hindi pala yung comeback.
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He will just meet us in the air there in the clouds.
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I wonder what that looks like.
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I got my words mixed up.
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Jesus will meet with the believers in the air and then we will all be with him in heaven.
The Impact of Frequent Relocations
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Right now, in our life, we are the three of us, the family.
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We are always moving.
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You know, from the time we got married, Papa, we moved in Pasig, and then we moved to Litex, and then I got pregnant, and we moved to Batasan, and then you are already there, and then in San Mateo, and then now here in Overland, and then, we moved to Litex, because
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The space we've had earlier is less than the time.
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Wait, you told me that we had seven moves?
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So what can you say about us moving all the time?
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Are you okay with that?
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Or are you okay with new adventures?
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I'm okay with new adventures, but my foots get tired.
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My bones get tired.
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When you grow up, how do you want to help the people you know?
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The people preach.
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I mean, in what way?
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Like, for example, gusto mo bang maging doktor para matulungan mo yung may sakit or gusto mo bang maging... Doktor.
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Ah, wag na lang pala doktor.
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Because I feel bad for the people.
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Alam ko masawit yun eh.
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May anesthesia naman yun.
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Ang kagawin ko, tumulong para gumawa ng antidote sa COVID.
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Is that still a doctor or is that a chemist already?
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I think that's still, but that's still medicine because like you're mixing stuff and testing them to make sure that they work.
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So that's a lot of trial and error.
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Do you think you will not get frustrated na, ah, hindi ko, hindi ito tama, tas gagawa ka na naman ulit, tapos ulit ka na naman ng ulit.
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If I can only buy a mix, the formula.
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So, you have to be really passionate with it because for sure you will experience a lot of errors.
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And then you have to do it all over again, all over again.
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That's part of life.
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Like, we don't succeed right away.
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Part of success is our failures.
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The failure is really, really sweet.
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I mean, not failure.
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The success is really, really sweet.
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So, when you've done so many failures, because... Finally, I did it!
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Yes, o, ganyan, ganyan.
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But, it doesn't have to be your own failure.
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Pwedeng failure ng ibang tao.
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Parang, ah, nalaman mo yung story ng failures niya and then you learn from it, you avoid the failure.
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Para hindi na mangyari sa'yo.
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I have so much things that I want.
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Well, you have to work hard for it.
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I want to go to Japan because they know how to make robots.
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And I love our robots.
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Ah, you like to do that too?
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So there are so many things that you want to do and that's good.
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But as you grow up, you will have to decide what you really love to do.
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And then you go with
El Nathan's Aspirations and Values
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So, you don't have so much patience.
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That's why we are always reminding you to be patient.
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patient because we need lots and lots of patience.
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And then, there it is.
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Thank you for your time.
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Thank you for your time.
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Thank you for the things that you told me.
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And thank you for always understanding, especially when I get too busy at work.
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You are the most understanding kid that I know because you understand it when I'm so busy.
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You want to lead us in prayer?
Closing Thoughts and Call to Action
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Lord, thank you for the day that you gave us.
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And thank you for the podcast.
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And thank you for what Mama's discipline is.
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And thank you for the day that you can give us a good blessing, Lord.
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And thank you for the things that you gave me that hindi kami na-infecte ng COVID.
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That it will be COVID-19 that it will stop.
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And please bless my patience, Lord, and my dream to be a chemist.
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In His name, Amen.
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Hope you enjoyed today's episode.
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