Hajime and Tomoko’s Wedding

They had been legally married since February 14, 2009 in Japan.
They chose to come here in Philippines to have a church wedding
in the place they considered as their second home,
House of Joy – San Isidro, Davao Oriental, Philippines.

They used to be the happy go lucky people not until Hana came to their lives.

They have become more independent and responsible parents.

Of course! Celebration will not be completed without the presence

of the parents. They also came to Philippines to support Hajime and Tomoko.

The celebration was very solemn and very touching especially

when the couple's parents gave their message to their children.

To Hajime and Tomoko, congratulation! Please take care of
each other and please continue to be a responsible parent to
Hana and to the rest of your children. You know every
HOJ child’s stories_ so please try to be good.

Children were busy taking the "amorsiko" off from their clothing
after playing soccer in the elementary.
















JUNIOR AND SENIOR PROMENADE of
San Isidro National High Schol was held last February 5, 2010.
Din-din, Marites, Ping-ping and Christina were
from House of Joy who attended to such event.

We are responsible to our own actions

Lately, a lot of things happened in the center. In fact these past days were so busy;
chasing children who ran away because of the broken plate,
accidentally met an accident caused by a ball slipped from a child's hand
and had conference with the educators in the elementary school.

We told the children that whenever they made a mistake they should face it
and never run from it. Sometimes they learned to say sorry and
sometimes they stayed quiet perhaps because they are guilty or just scared of what had happened.

On the other hand, the conference with the educators was something memorable for me.
I never saw a teacher crying infront of many asking for forgiveness not until yesterday.
I filed a complain against a teacher because of her unexcusable treatment towards our children.
She was forgiven before because thinking that she would never do it again.
Unfortunately, she did and even put blames to others especially to our children and that made them
(our children) really get affected. So, I made an action.

It was not easy for me to do such thing (filed a formal complain to DEPeD)
but it is my job to protect our children. Three days after I mailed the letter of complain,
the DEPeD immediately answered and made an investigation.

Yesterday was the final conference. I demanded for suspension for some lesson
but after asking of what the consequences are; I decided to give her last chance with
the assurance from the DEPeD that she will do it again, no conference will be held...
immediate sanction will be implemented already.

We are responsible to our own action. Before we will do such thing,
we should think first whether that action will be good for you or not.
Every action has a consequence and we should face it.
We should not blame others. Blaming is an act of being irresponsible.

And lastly, I have high respect to the teacher. I hope this will not happen again.
We know that we chose our own profession because we love it,
we have passion to do it. If we have our personal problems, set aside them
and let us do our job very well. Indeed, children, sometimes, are very hard to discipline.
But we are taught and called to understand them more.
In addition, I believe that children will not disrespect certain person
if that person shows deep compassion and understanding to them,
in general...showing respect for who they are.