Some things never cease to amaze me.
I have been staying her for almost seven years yet I can’t get customized with ways of “modern people” thinking.
Singapore is having an outbreak now, well actually, every year there is this disease called HFMD, hand-foot-mouth, somethinggg like that. In the peak, year 2000-2001, 7 kids died from that disease. It affects children, although it’s also contagious to adult, but children are more prone to that.
This year, the quantity of the cases reaches serious number, trigger the closure of some schools and child centers. Well, so far I hope I get all the info right.
If I’m wrong, I have to warn that blogs contain crappy information, stories and grumpy grumpy, so don’t rely on the info you found on any blogs…
With the closing of schools and child centers, comes the news and parent’s concern.
“What am I going to do with my kids?”
“How do I find someone to take care of them?”
“Worse comes to the worst, I have to take turn with my wife to take leave from work.”
“Government/schools should provide us a way to keep the children.”
What the-
I was reading newspaper, perhaps last month, that there is a mysterious flu in Hongkong and they were closing school for safety, trying to prevent the spread among school children. The parent’s responses? It’s the same with Singapore.
I know, I have yet to be a parent. What do I know? By right I should run away Kaing kaing kaing since I supposedly don’t have the right to talk. However, he..I like this word..
Even though I’m not a parent, I know many, my parents, my friends etc etc..
I know they won’t act this way. My mom for example will welcome the closure wholeheartedly. She even sometimes gives idea to us to take break from work to rest at home. Once she shows up in my Uni trying to drag me home while I was down for a week, I think, from malaria. But I resisted and she was pissed. That’s because she was worry, that is the normal reaction from parents, because they always want to protect their children.
Here, I copy it again.
“What am I going to do with my kids?”
“How do I find someone to take care of them?”
“Worse comes to the worst, I have to take turn with my wife to take leave from work.”
“Government/schools should provide us a way to keep the children.”
I'm pissed and shouldn't judge because I don’t know the Singaporean or Hong Kong’s parent’s reason to give the (crap) reasons above. They say they have their reasons. Work. Money.
Fair enough. But not over.
If I have to be not biased, I won’t write here. Reason that I write here is that because I’m free (I guess so!) to write whatever mind that I have without the need to please anyone.
Back to the topic…. What the heck, what reasons can justify it? No maid? Nobody to take care? There are ways…and if everything else fails, look at one way out. Let the kid stay at home.
Here, I guess, people underestimate kids.
Alone in the house? No problemo.
I’m talking about the ‘dangerous’ country that I come from. In Singapore, it’s most likely to be the safest place on earth. People kick you, you kick them back. It’s still quite fair here. Anything happens, accident, robbery, people around will help, not stay quiet for their own safety and not robbing you while you are dying after the car crash. So what seems to be the problem of a kid stay in the house? I’m talking about school kids, primary and above, of course not toddler or babies.
Stay in the house beats the possibility of getting contagious disease. The worst is not that one parent have to take leave, but if the kid go down with the disease, have to be treated in hospital, or something fatal. How do they compare the ‘worst’?
Why don't the embrace the opportunity to protect their kids and grateful that they are okay? Why treat them as nuisance and disturbance? Why blame or ask for other parties about what to do with your kids? Who is talking what?
What reasons can beat the risk of the kids catching disease that is so preventable? Why instead of feeling relieved that they are given chance to avoid it, the parents nag about what to do with the kids when they are not in the school? Are they confused now why they actually have little people stay with them in their house?
Uh…. What about those drunken nights or happy night years ago?
Okay, perhaps a bit of judgmental and drunken post.
But still..
Huek....!
