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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Teaching values through words, music
By Aurelia L. Castro
Don’t let television, nor any other source of entertainment, take your role in your kids’ learning and development process, or else they’re lost and misguided, advises award-winning author Grace Chong.
Amidst many other responsibilities, there’s a strong call for parents and adults to instill and preserve in kids the much-needed values and faith in God.
“Many of us today are so busy, we can hardly find time to sit and give quality time to our kids - one of the reasons our teenagers now are lost. We need to protect and help our young ones by guiding them through stories that would lead them to know God,” says Chong.
After dinner at Fisherman’s Net and Garden Bistro, Chong talked about her book What’s for Breakfast, the first devotional book in the country for children.
“It contains daily devotional pieces that would teach our kids to give time for prayer, say, five minutes a day, at least,” says Chong, who now has 19 non-fiction, inspirational books. No need to worry about heavy, preachy topics, assures the author.
“Kids will surely enjoy listening and reading the stories,” says Chong, who made use of different topics in science, art, and other study disciplines in her stories and, in the end of each devotion, link them to a moral lesson kids would easily remember. The book is now out and available in National Bookstore, OMF Literature, Philippine Christian Bookstore and at CLC bookstore.
Chong was part of the Words and Music presentation organized by OMF Literature, Inc. together with Fisherman’s Net and Garden Bistro recently held at Ayala Center Cebu’s OnStage.
Carla Martinez and other performing artists filled the night with inspirational songs. “We aim to make people of all ages reflect on what is really important in this life. Like words for Grace Chong, we use music as well to reach out to people and lead them back to God,” Martinez said.
(December 28, 2004 issue)
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