tongtong,
For my company (and most, if not all companies in Singapore), they only give maternity leave to 2 none singaporean births, regardless of the sequence of the kids. Meaning during one employment, I can only enjoy maternity leave for 2 births. If I change to another job, then yes, I am entitled to maternity leave for another 2 births. For Singaporean births, no limit of how many kids you want to give birth to under 1 employment.
Steph,
When HR started talking, he was like Z. Then every time he threw tantrum without a reason (at least in our eyes), he cried loudly and refused listen to us. We kept repeating to him "don't cry, you are big boy already mah, and you are such a clever boy cos you can speak already woh. You stop crying and tell us what you want, ok?". It works for HR. He would stop crying slowly (not immediately) and trying to tell us what he wants, when he still couldn't talk properly, we started to go round the house and asked one by one what's exactly he wanted. If still cannot, then ask him to bring us to whatever things he wants to get. Now he can talk very clearly, most of the time. Now is another set of problem - he could ask for 10 things before he is willing to go to bed! If nothing works, we just ignore him for a few minutes. During the entire process, we don't raise our voice, we stay calm and be even softer voice than usual. What he needs more is our attention than anything else when he wails/throws tantrum.
