Recent content by mannouhana

I am brought up to believe that being unwed mums bring shame. In fact, my mother constantly told me and my siblings in the event a rape happened, we should rather die than to live on cos our lives are over the moment it happened. During our teens, my mum would monitor our menstrual period and we...

I think I could be from a different generation from all of you. Anyway, I have asked the moderator to remove my account since my thinking led to so many members' distress.

I know it is not politically correct not to be supportive. But it is a fact that in our society it is not an accepted practice. This is different from single mothers due to divorce or death of spouse. Who among us can say we are 100% fine telling our daughters when they reach teenhood "never...

What about the shame that you will bring to your parents by keeping the baby? Not meant to be cruel but to have a daughter who give birth out of wedlock is shameful and reflects badly on the entire family.

How about give birth and put the baby up for adoption? Terminate only if testing shows the baby has genetic defects or DS, since not likely anyone will want to adopt a DS child or one with genetic defects. And by keeping such a child, he/she will burden your other children financially and in...

Children are hard to control when they are in a very active mode no matter how hard one tries. My son accidentally broke my sister's plate when we visited her. It was just a moment, I turned to take a glass from my sister and my then 2 years old son broke it. She couldn't replace it cos it was...

Amen to that. It is respecting house owner's property. Some property cannot be replaced even with money.

This is a reality anywhere that has a competitive job market. Once a person has been out of job market for sometime, it is extremely difficult to get back in. I hate to sound harsh but with no steady stream of income (be it though job or investments with monthly payout) and no family support...

My parents are in their 60s. During their generation, their education level considered not bad, ie all the way till secondary 4, both English educated.

We (as in my colleagues, friends, sister, husband and I) envy Stay-At-Home mums. My sister and friends are in banking, public and private sector. Colleagues and husband are in public sector. You have the time to nurture or be with your children, guide them in their studies, etc. I wake at 5.15am...

Well, my parents - tell my brother their flat belong to him after they die, he better not share proceeds with us. My sis and I give allowance to them while our brother does not. - say me and my sisters should give allowance because they bring us up. My brother doesn't need to because his condo...

Thanks for all your replies. I have 3 children so I am quite aware of their sleeping patterns. Just that interrupted sleep is terrible so I tend not to sleep at all.

I am on maternity leave now. Having a baby who wakes up every three hours, I tend to sleep only at 4am, after her feed. Maid will take over at 6am, while I sleep till 9am. With this kind of sleeping pattern, I surf on the web a lot. One day while surfing on some childcare articles, I chanced...

I have been reading this forum and I would like to propose the following in order to make postings easily understood by everyone, regardless of culture, nationality and social background. a) minimise use of abbreviation. As a start, we should keep to officially accepted abbreviations. For...

Policy wise, if your child is a Singapore Citizen, you and your husband are lawfully married; and you have worked for employer for at least 3 months before the child's birth, you are entitled to absent yourself from work four weeks immediately before and 12 weeks immediately after delivery...