Today’s Mommy blogger entrepreneur is Serene Shikukeza of A Nurse’s Diary:

Yes, Serene is a registered nurse and she’s not only good on taking care of your health, but she’s also known for making your aching tummy, happy through her sweet kitchen business, Leigh’s Treats.

• Name of Business: Leigh’s Treats
• Contact Details: Inquires on  Leigh’s Treats  Facebook Page 
• Products: Mostly pastries, her best sellers are Red velvet crinkles with cream cheese filling
  and mini smores

Serene confessed that she loves pastries and spends a lot on it every week. With her sugar worries, specially for her kids (she really is a nurse!), she started baking to control the amount of sugar on the pastries. It was when “somehow” her hubby’s tummy was satisfied (I am guessing her husband’s tummy is very very picky!) that she was encouraged to turn it into a business. Hence, Leigh’s Treats was bron, which according to her is a portion of both of my her kids’ name. Since the inspiration to start baking came from giving the best for her kids, it is only apt that her business was named after them.

Serene is also a partner at Sophistique Collection (www.facebook.com/SophistiqueCollection) . A joint venture with her sister whom also shares the love for fashion with her (aside from love of pastries).

One of her initial worries when starting the sweet business is not being successful but since she love what she’s doing, she knew she made the right decision of selling sweet treats.

You have to try Serene’s mini smores! Cute addition to your dessert table 🙂 The Red velvet crinkles with cream cheese filling is a perfect Christmas giveaway too!

My plan then was to feature 5 mommies who are not just bloggers but entrepreneurs as well. I realized I won’t do any justice to these mommies if I do that.. so now I am going to feature one mommy blogger per day and highlight their negosyo, more photos, more exposure, right?

Our first mommy blogger entrepreneur..

Sharon Joyce or SJ, known as All Around Pinay Mama, manages their printing and crafting business and writes about ups and downs of motherhood, make up, crafting and personal events on her All Around Pinay Mama blog.

Although we frequently chat in FB, I only got to meet her during the Mommy Bloggers Halloween Party. Napakawarm ng aura nitong si SJ, no wonder their business is doing good. I am sure most of their clients commends not only on their crafts but as well as how they were treated by SJ.

I also got to see some of their products during the Mommy Bloggers Halloween Party (they were one of the sponsors). Each mommies got an MBP ref magnet and a key chain! They also sponsored some pins and badges for the committee.

• Name of Business: Known as FAITHSHOPPE (and sometimes Joyceski’s Biz) on Facebook
• Contact Details: PM on Facebook: FAITHSHOPPE
• Products: Personalized ref magnet, Personalized Key Chain, Personalized Rosaries, Personalized T-shirt, Corporate Giveaways (Basically, they cover anything about printing)

According to SJ, Faithshoppe is a  is a mother and daughter team, “I do the printing stuff, cord accessories, and marketing with the help of my husband during his free time while mom is in charge with the bead works. We are into printing and crafting business because of passion and fix clientele and ready market.” They started the business to gain more financial freedom and of course to be able to give more to their 2 kids, who are now both studying.

SJ said she made the right decision in staring their own business, “the endeavor answered one of our objectives and that is earning while spending quality time with the family,”

I asked Mommy SJ what’s her business secret, “Choose a business that addresses a need and which is aligned with your passion…Masaya ka na, kumikita ka pa, and you can spend time with your family. Starting a business is not easy- great anyway! It entails sacrifices- do it anyway! It will give you extra income- the more you have to do it. It will give you self-fulfillment and self-worth, as you continue doing it. The best part is, you gain friends.” she happily shared.

So this Christmas, for all your printing needs, you know where to go to.. (SJ, may silk screen printing ka din ba? hihi)

How far will you go to give your child the best? How do you boost his ‘intelligence’ to make sure he achieves excellence in more fields than one?

But when we say intelligence, what does it mean? Is it as simple as when your child got a high IQ test score, it means she/he is intelligent? So what about those (eherm eherm) that only got an average score on IQ tests? What are we? Not intelligent?

BIG TIME OUCHY no?

Good thing, (specially on our ego and to our kids!) Howard Gradner , Hobbs professor of education and cognition at the Harvard Graduate School of Education believes that intelligence is more complex than we think.

THANK YOU HOWARD GARDNER!

Howard Gardner, Hobbs professor of education and cognition at the Harvard Graduate School of Education believes that intelligence is more complex than we think. “It was generally believed that intelligence was a single entity that was inherited, and that human beings – initially a blank state – could be trained to learn anything, provided that it was presented in an appropriate way,” said Gardner in his landmark work Frames of Mind, The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. “Nowadays, an increasing number of researchers believe precisely the opposite; that there exists a multitude of intelligences, quite independent of each other, that each intelligence has its own strengths and constraints…”

Gardner’s theory eventually gave rise to what is known as multiple intelligence – simply put it is brain smart, body smart and people smart. The theory questions the idea that intelligence is a single entity, that it results from a single factor and that it can be measured simply via IQ tests.

So how do you know which intelligence your child exhibits? And what can you do to help them enhance it? Here’s a few guide:

So what do you have? brain smart? body smart or people smart?

Now, here’s the fun part!!

On twitter, tell me some activities you do to enhance your child’s multiple intelligence.

Use this format:

@MommyPehpot, because I choose #MultipleIntelligence, I ______________________________(activities you do with your kids/ you let your kids do) #MItipsbyMP

Comment here your tweet url together with your full name and the name of your 4 year old or older kid (kahit nickname lang po)

We will choose the best tweet using this criteria

• Creativity – 30%
  Reason – 30%
  Relatability – 40%

and will win Toy Kingdom GC (300PhP) + Mercury Drug GC (200 PhP) and Special Gift Price

This is a flash giveaway and will end on Friday, 11 PM. What are you waiting for?