MANILA, Philippines — While resolutions are oftentimes moot and forgotten by the time January gives way to February, it is nevertheless a good idea to make one and see how determinedly the advocacy can sustain its pledges.

We put our wish list together with our “to do” list and came up with this ABC of sorts for Anak TV.

We hope that ABS-CBN will make good its slogan “in the service of the Filipino” and include children, first by making way for more locally produced kiddie shows that peddle values. Its sterling showing at the recent awards and the pledges made by its winners should be impetus for such change to happen so the others in the industry may follow.

Julius BABAO should convert all the goodwill and admiration he generated from having been installed by the people in the Makabata Hall of Fame into concrete work with and for children, especially now that he is a father of two. Getting deeply involved in wife TinTin’s meritorious parenting advocacy will do him good.

For her part, we also hope Mikee COJUANGCO-Jaworski will have more than 24 hours a day to do a plethora of good things she aims to do without sacrificing health and family time. She is with Gawad Kalinga, PSC, and her own foundation addressing the youth but wonderfully finds time for AnakTV. Thankfully, she has no disturbing political aspirations so she remains the darling of advocacies.

The twin gifts of DISCRETION and prudence are our fervent wishes for all TV viewers and broadcasters. We found that these are two traits television users sorely lack.

EDUCATORS should now make good its word to push media education and see how they can use the different TV literacy FORUMS and seminars that Anak TV conducts in the countryside because to many a child in the public school system, television is the acknowledged life teacher. Television should be a partner, not an adversary and teachers should verbalize what they want television’s role to be in the lives of their wards.

GARY V, besides being UNICEF Ambassador, plays a key role in communicating to parents and children about their physical and mental health. This year, he will stage a concert with the advocacy as beneficiary, an idea that had been in the back burner for three years running. IMBESTIGAROD Mike Enriquez, a Hall of famer like Julius and Gary, with JESSICA SOHO, the year‘s top winner among the most admired female TV personalities, on the other hand, should help GMA Network in its effort to decipher the minds of young people and unravel why their parents look up to news and public affairs personalities with a reverence usually reserved for bishops and pastors.

For her part, KORINA SANCHEZ must relish, protect and nurture her TV persona because it does wonders to audiences in far flung areas who are smitten with her boob tube presence. Whether such admiration will translate to votes for her husband is anybody’s guess. She can perhaps graduate from mere distribution of slippers and prodding children to do the inane dance routine to getting involved in something more deeply educational and transformational.

It is AnakTV’s wish that more provinces and towns will continue to adopt or begin LAROLYMPICS in their communities to get children to actively socialize among peers and revive the dying street games of Filipino childhood.

MEL TIANGCO, the other half of the 24 Oras tandem, does not need to make known her invaluable work in the children’s department anymore but we wish to see her up the ante by taking on a storyteller role, a modern day Lola Basyang, dispensing stories rich in values.

For its part, the still lethargic NCCT (or the National Council for Children’s Television) should finally flex its muscles for the children and make known its projects and intentions as soon as an appropriate, dynamic secretariat is put in place. It must regain lost time and momentum.

(To be continued with O to Z)