ON CHILDCARE MYTHS AND FALLACIES
Much as I want to understand and keep an open my mind in some old beliefs on childcare, never was I ever been convinced that some unexplainable witchcraft could have caused Nico’s consequent vomiting this morning. Sad to say, I was at work when this untoward incident happened to my poor baby. Gee, it made me so worried and panicking as soon as I received a phone call from Jun (who was about to go to work at that time, but thank God he was still home when the incident happened), alerting me that Nico unexplainably threw up the milk and the Champorado that I prepared for him this morning.
Before I even reasoned what could have caused Nico’s gagging (because I was thinking that nabigla ang tiyan ni Nico sa short intervals ng pag-inom ng milk then to eating Champorado for breakfast), Jun reassured me though that there’s no need for me to worry as he has already remedy the situation. “What did you do then?” I asked. “Wag ka na mag-alala, kinontra ko na yung bales/usog ni Nico”, he said, then elaborating that he boiled the pajama and T-shirt that the poor baby wore before the incident happened. According to Jun, Nico was nausog/nabales daw by our oldie neighbor Aling Sol, whom he said was “malakas ang usog” and that the outright solution was to counter the usog. Continue Reading »


