Joss Stone visited the wonderful Operation Smile project in Manila. An incredible charity that raises funds to operate on children with cleft lips and deformed
palettes. She met with the wonderful doctors, surgeons, rehabilitated patients and children, to hear their stories. The beautiful Charice joined them and they played live for the children in the
hospital.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Below is a great conversation with Chasters.,
This is a sensitive topic ... and this is a mine field . Growth is an adventure: an adventure to seek your own road. As parents, as teachers, as elderly peers - we comment, we pointed out, we tell the truth we know based on our experience ... etc. etc....
It's like telling: I have been to that road and the scene is not too attractive, or it might be a dead end ... but life is also a learning experience, so ....just let the teens try it out, give them some time and don't lose hope on anything ..you only try to stop them if they drive with both hands free!
When we have a controversy, make sure the involved parties talk. It's the key. "The point is.....as a parent.....if you love your child, you are going to advise and admonish them if you, as a parent to them, see behavior that you as a parent do not like or agree with..." it's a gifted responsibility of parent to guide their child.
Definition of child to parent is life-long, not before 18 then I guide, after 18 you're on your own! Truth is: grown up kids are like birds with feathers: They have to leave their warm net called "home" to fly on their wings - to see their own world and fly their own path.
As parents, see your kids as grown-up birds - then you can relax a bit and give them the freedom to fly around. As kids, just make sure you don't fly to the outer space and couldn't find your way home! And take some .. just some .. advice from the parent bird sitting back there in the net called Home .
In this process, talk leads to mutual understanding, no talks then the gap is wider & wider until it's wider than the Grand Canyon !
Let's put it this way: Love has no room for hate, don't let hate creeps into your love. When there is just a little bit of hate in your love, you open the gate to allow black water to flow into crystal clear water ... and that water will be milky or even turn dark forever.
Charice is one of the many great artists around the world collaborating in this "One Woman: A Song for UN Women," which will be released on March 8, 2013.
In Kigali, she wakes up,
She makes a choice,
In Hanoi, Natal, Ramallah.
In Tangier, she takes a breath,
Lifts up her voice,
In Lahore, La Paz, Kampala.
Though she’s half a world away
Something in me wants to say …
She dedicated the song to Joshua and Bimby, the sons of "Kris TV" host Kris Aquino, who happens to be her godmother. She never heard this song before and just learned the song on the spot after just listening to the song twice during commercial break while being interviewed on Kris TV, December 7, 2012