Hi Eanx (jaceanx),
Ya true har...they should also show on TV like what is the punishment FDW will get if the broke the law here. So far, if I remember correctly only 1 case i saw on TV.
Wah, last night on the news also show a 12yr girl being thrown down....suspect is the maid but not confirm...it's so sad. I see liao very worried.
The maid agencies should have give out slips of paper to quote some examples on what is the outcome if they broke laws in Singapore. At least to let the maids know that it's not worth to commit crimes in a moment of anger and regret being hang or wad and die in a foreign land....
At least must let them know there are laws here... cos many of the FDW also comes from villages, and I think it's better to emphasis again to them when they come to Singapore to work. Maybe they are doing it now already but you never know when a person's craziness will act up...chong dong...
Actually it's going to be a problem in future la. Most family live on their own now. Parents also may not want to help to look after cos you may not be the only child, if help one child, the other sibling's child also may nid your help. Therefore, nowadays, most in-laws or parents all would prefer to go work.
And if you really wan kids, you can only get helper or look for childcare, where infant care is not cheap, cc also ex, after school care also got prob.
I still believe at least 1 parents must be around to discipline the children. School also cant do much. My previous place got an afterschool care centre. The children there are quite playful n many big kids in the centre cos afterschool care can up till 12yrs i think.
I actually find the centre quite noisy, wonder if the kids will do their homework in the centre anot after school. There should be 'teacher' around to oversee the children but wonder if the "teacher" is just another person around just to make sure the kids are in the centre. I dunno if they really care if the kids are doing the homework or not. There are even older kids who misbehave (like ganster) in the centre, where I happen to see them outside the centre one of these days.
Definitely I believe no parents want to leave their kids in centre where there are "ganster-like" behaviour where they spend most of the day in the centre.
Thus, I also don feel good to put my kids there when I do away with the maid in future. Although they don mix with them, but "watching" too much of such behaviour will go into the brain n grow roots....and one of these days, the seedling will start to grow.
I also dunno how. Both parents nid to work to get the $$ to survive. Kids born, no one look after. Parents working or too old to help look after. As parents are too old, we nid to get FDW to help but space problem will come in. House small, how to accommodate parents, maid, kids n parents...zzz.
How? lolz. Very tough. that's y i think even thou the freebies are there, but still many Singaporeans still don wan to give birth to complicate things haha.....
God Bless.....
Let's hope Singapore pass a rule to let Married women with kids to work half day but get full day salary n we can go home to spend more time with kids, to read with them, do handicrafts with them, do creative things with them, bring them to many good places where they can learn thru play.....This will also ease the maids' load as they don have to keep facing the kids n may not have so much crimes with FDW also hahaha....
It's my wish....I really hope to do so many things with my kids, but no time...
1 yr only have 52 weekends, meaning only 52 Saturdays n Sundays.
Saturday - Enrichment classes
Sunday - Family time, visit both parents, outing, reading with kids, playing with them, catch up with our own frens --> ALL IN 52 DAYS A YEAR.....how to achieved??
Anyone can advice haha....maybe should choose to ignore everything haha....zzzzz