VCCPC Medical Services Unit

10/08/2026

The 4 most common oral health conditions are:

🦷 tooth decay
🦷 gum disease
🦷 tooth loss
🦷 oral cancers

Fortunately, most cases are preventable and can be treated in their early stages.

03/08/2026

Not every child walks into school carrying the same kind of love and support.

Some go home to empty houses. Some have no one waiting to ask, "How was your day?" Some don't have lunch packed with love, help with homework, or a bedtime routine that makes them feel safe. Some are carrying worries far bigger than a child ever should.

That's why I teach my children to choose kindness.

To sit with the child who always eats alone. To include the one everyone ignores. To smile at the child who looks scared. To share when they have enough.

Because you never know what another child is fighting silently.

For some children, school is the only place where they feel safe, noticed, and cared for.

A single smile. A kind word. An invitation to play.

It may seem small to your child... but to another child, it could mean the world.

Raise children who don't just make good grades. Raise children who make other people feel seen, valued, and loved. ❤️

03/08/2026

Our youth look up to us and find their way by watching how we act, how we care, and how we treat others. When we actively choose to lead with compassion, patience, and understanding, we are helping guide them toward a much better path in life. Every kind action and supportive choice we make today helps shape a safer, more loving world for them to grow into.

03/08/2026

26/07/2026

🌿💙 Knowledge That Inspires Healthy Choices

Through another session of our Psychoeducation Series, our participants gained practical knowledge on maintaining good health and understanding reproductive health. Every learning opportunity brings us one step closed to building healthier, safer, and more informed communities.

Our sincere appreciation to everyone who contributed to the success of this activity -- Nurse Liz, Nurse Ruru, Ms. Julie, Ms. Margie, Ms. Braney and our partners from the Barangay Council for the Protection of Children. Together, we continue making a positive impact -- one community at a time. 🩷

21/07/2026

Validating your child’s feelings doesn’t mean you’re agreeing with their behavior. It means you’re letting them know their emotions make sense, even when your answer is still no. 💫

This one distinction changes everything about how validation actually works. “I understand how you feel” and “the answer is still no” are not opposites, they can live in the same sentence, and holding both at once is one of the most powerful things you can do for your child’s emotional development.

Here’s why it matters so much.

When a child feels genuinely understood, their nervous system starts to settle, and that’s what allows the thinking part of their brain to come back online. You cannot reason with a child whose emotional brain has already taken over, no matter how good your explanation is.

Acknowledging the feeling first isn’t a soft alternative to holding the boundary, it’s what makes holding the boundary actually work. ✨

This also isn’t permissive parenting, permissive parenting removes the structure, while validation keeps the structure and adds empathy underneath it.

Validation changes the emotional experience, it doesn’t change the limit.

For more in-depth info and free printables with validation phrases to use with your kids by age, toddlers all the way through teens, click the link in the comments. 💜

19/07/2026

"Raising children who won't have to recover from their childhood..."

That's not about being a perfect parent. It's about being a parent who keeps learning, growing, and choosing love—even on the hard days.

It means choosing patience over anger. Connection before correction. Teaching instead of shaming. Listening instead of dismissing. Apologizing when we make mistakes. Creating a home where our children feel safe, loved, heard, and accepted.

Our children don't need perfection. They need parents who make them feel valued, protected, and emotionally secure.

The way we speak to them today becomes the voice they carry with them tomorrow.

Let's raise children who grow up remembering home as a place of comfort, not fear. A place where they were encouraged, respected, and loved for who they are.

❤️ Every small act of kindness, patience, and understanding helps build a childhood they won't need to heal from.

Do you believe a child's emotional safety is just as important as their physical safety?

19/07/2026

We spend so much energy trying to hide our struggles from our children because we love them and we want to protect them, and showing them our pain feels like the opposite of that. 💜

But there is something profoundly powerful that happens when a child witnesses their parent in the process of healing, not falling apart with no repair in sight, but genuinely working through something, feeling it, sitting with it, and finding their way back.

What that child receives in those moments is not fear or instability, it is permission. The silent but unmistakable message that falling apart is something humans do, and that rebuilding is something humans are capable of too.

So many of us grew up in homes where adults never struggled visibly, or if they did, it was never talked about, never processed, never repaired, just hidden and moved past as if it never happened. And without realizing it, we absorbed the belief that our own falling apart was something shameful, something to manage alone, something that made us weak or broken or too much.

💫 When we do our healing in front of our children, in age-appropriate, emotionally honest ways, we give them something that no amount of perfect parenting can replicate.

We give them a living example of what emotional courage actually looks like, not the absence of pain, but the willingness to move through it with honesty and self-compassion, and to come back to the people we love when we find our footing again.

✨ Your healing is not a burden your children are carrying. It is a blueprint they are receiving, and one day they will understand exactly what it cost you and exactly what it gave them. ✨

15/07/2026

Studies show that when kids see parents drinking, it normalizes alcohol consumption.

📢Parents! Help prevent early drinking. Have open conversations and model healthy habits at home.

You are your kid’s hero.

15/07/2026

This is one of the most common misconceptions I see about conscious parenting, and I want to address it directly. 💜

Somewhere along the way, the idea of respecting children got tangled up with the idea of having no authority, no structure, no limits, and raising kids who do whatever they want with no guidance. And so when parents start shifting toward a more respectful, connection-based approach, they get hit with comments like "you're going to raise entitled kids" or "who's the parent here?" as if warmth and leadership cannot coexist.

But they absolutely can, and in the healthiest family dynamics, they always do.

💫 Developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind's research on parenting styles identified what she called "authoritative parenting," which is distinct from both authoritarian parenting (high control, low warmth) and permissive parenting (high warmth, low structure), as the style most consistently associated with positive child outcomes across emotional, social, and academic domains. Authoritative parenting is characterized by high warmth and high structure together, by parents who lead clearly while also honoring their child's inner world.

Respecting your child means listening to them, acknowledging their feelings, explaining your reasoning rather than just issuing commands, treating their perspective as worth considering even when the answer is still no, and making them feel that they are a valued member of the family rather than someone who simply has to comply.

None of that requires you to abdicate your role as the adult in the room. You can hold firm, consistent, loving boundaries while also treating your child with genuine dignity, and in fact the research suggests that this combination is exactly what produces the internalized values, emotional regulation, and cooperative behavior that every parent is hoping for.

✨ Authority and respect were never opposites. They were always meant to work together. ✨ 💜