What Scarlet

playroom is divided into sections, you have the music area, the play and imagination area, you have numbers and colors, you have Mathematics, and you have the dancing and gymnastics, and she has her kitchen, parang bedroom for her ‘babies’ (dolls).”

On being parents to one of the, if not most followed celebrity child on social media:

Vicki: “It was a surprise, we never really expected it. She was already one year old before we… You know, when she was born, everyone was, ‘Introduce her to the world.’ And we go, why? Who are we? We are not movie stars. We’re not politicians. We’re basically two doctors. But everybody kept expecting and when finally she came out, when she was born… what did you do

(turning to Hayden again) reserve all the Instagram, Facebook?”

Hayden: “Lahat ng possible social media accounts, I reserved all the names… I felt that when people find out about Scarlet, I was afraid may

gumawa ng social media accounts na fake, tapos marami maging followers and eventually people will think that’s the real Scarlet and that person can do anything, ask for anything on social media. So, in order to protect her from that, I reserved all the names — Facebook, Twitter,

Instagram, e-mail niya — so yeah, when she got announced, inisip ko, OK, social media accounts will start appearing so I made the first account, kinontrol ko nalang (I just controlled it). Tapos ngayon, biglang naging ganito.”

Vicki: “We really had no idea. Of course, everyone finds their baby cute. So akala namin kami lang, pero marami palang na-kyu-kyutan!”

Hayden: “So, we feel truly blessed. We didn’t do this. This was given to us. But with that blessedness comes also a great responsibility for both of us, kasi

kumbaga iba yung terrain, ito yung di pa namin alam, so di kami sure kung paano i-navigate, so we’re very careful. So, how do you handle the strangers who are very aggressive? How do you make her understand that this is not the real thing, that this is not normal or this is normal? We constantly think about those things.

“But what I realized with social media is that it won’t go away. It’s here to stay. The question is, for most parents, what kind of message will you put out on your social media. With Scarlet

kahit di siya magkaroon ng social media, eventually, when at 11, 12, 13, she’ll start asking. For us, we decided, we’re only going to post about faith, family, friendship, all positive stuff, compassion, love, tenderness and all that.”