I agree with the statement, "Domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents." Indeed, domestic maids perform typical chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, buying foods and drinks, accompanying the female head of the household for grocery shopping, taking the family dog for a walk, and taking care of the children etc. In my opinion, I think that the role of the parents is to ensure that they spend quality time with their child. In addition, the parent must be a good role model to the child. Nowadays, many domestic maids get to spend a lot of time with the children. However, I think that parents should also play a part in the upbringing of a child. Parents tend to leave the child in the care of the domestic maids and go to work and little time is spent with their child. As the child spends more time with the domestic maid, the child will be more attached to the maid instead of his parents. After a period of time, the child will gradually confide more in the maid as compared to his parents. Therefore, I think that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents. Name:Sheery Class:DAC/1B/07
I agree with the statement.More and more families are employing maids to take care of their families as the parents are to busy to do so.
Parents are spending less time with their children due to their busy work life and thus children nowadays are closer to their maids than their parents. If this continues, in the future, your children may not want to share his or her problems with you.
If you want to have children, it will be your responsibility to take care of them.Maids are employed to do household chores and not to be a parent.
I agree.Though their job is to take care of the household chores,this days with parents busy with their work,maids are taking over the role as parents.When both parents are out to work,it is the maid that feed the kids,discipline them when they start throwing toys around and put them to bed when the parents are yet to be home.All these roles are meant to be played by the parents as that's what define a parents,disciplining,guiding and nurturing their kids.The consequences of such actions might lead to the kids to turn to their maid instead of their parents when problems arise. To prevent such thing from happening,parents should spend more time at home and lesser time at work so that they have time to bond with their kids.If parents are not able to spare time for their kids,in my opinion they are not ready yet to ne one.
It is part and parcel of life. To have a high standard of living in Singapore, it has to be a dual income. Unless the sole breadwinner has a high salary, the other party cannot afford to stay at home to take care of the children. Parents will not have enough time to take care of your children 24 hours a day. Hiring a maid will then be unavoidable.
What maids normally do: - Household cleaning (washing, ironing, cooking) - Waking the children up for school - Bringing the children to school/fetching them back from school - Feeding them when they are hungry - Comforting children when they are sad (when parents are at work) - Playing with the children - Bathing them - Coaxing them to sleep
Basically, maids usually end up taking care of the children's daily needs both physically and emotionally. This is because they can only to turn to their maids when their parents are at work. Most maids have already taken up the responsibilities of parents. The time spent together slowly creates bonding between the child and the maid. Therefore, it is important to make sure that the parents always have a deeper bond with the child rather the maid.
Today, there is an increasing number of people employing maids as both parents in the family will be working. The work of the maids involve doing household chores,taking care of the children and etc. Therefore the maids actually spend more time with the children. Children may have better relationship with the maids and may turn to them when they have problems. In some families, the children address the maid as mothers.
However this does not mean that domestic maids are taking over the role of parents. The role of parents is to take care of the children, discipline them and instill them with the necessary knowledge. Domestic maids do not have the right to discipline the children. I believe if parents see the maids holding the cane and lecturing their children, the parents will send the maids back to their country.
To prevent domestic maids taking over the role of parents, parents should spend more time with their children. It is important to ensure that the bond between children and parents are stronger than the bond between maids and children. In this way, parents are still parents in the eye of their children.
I agree to a certain extent that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
Nowadays,there are increasing numbers of career-minded people.These people may have got married and have a child but still carrying-on putting their jobs in the first place.Therefore there are many of such families who employ a maid to help look after their house and children as well while they concentrate on their jobs.Some parents have the misconception that what is most important for their child is to earn enough money to feed and support them for an education.These things may be important but not the most important of all things.The most important for a child is the concern from their parents at all times,teaching them what they can or cannot do.
However,many children do not have a chance to experience such things from their parents but from their maid instead.In some families,the maid that their parents employ seems to see the child for a longer number of hours than their parents.Thus slowly,the maid seems to have taken over the role of their parents by looking after their needs and wants,knowing where the child goes everyday and who are the friends that he or she brings home.All these information of the child that the maid knows are already more than what their parents know of their child.
I agree. Families with both parents working would often hire maids to look after their young children. Thus, the maid spends the most time with the child. Because of this, good relationships/bonds could be built through simple tasks such as bringing the child home from school or engaging in interactive games with him.
The long hours domestic maids spend with the children would result in the maids teaching the child things that the parent would never find time to do. For example, a simple walk around the estate would allow the child to see many different sights such as animals and objects. The child would learn names and gain information about such sights through the maid and not the parent.
Although some parents try to let their children take up extra lessons such as ballet or piano classes, nothing can be compared to spending quality time between parent and child, instead of time spent between maid and child. Even so, the maids are the ones shuttling the children to and from their classes.
If this continues, not only would bonds between parent and child be broken, the child would start picturing the maid as the parent and learn to lean on the wrong person. Parents should be well prepared before thinking of having a family.
In accordance with the hectic working lives of most parents in Singapore, there leaves minimal time for their children. Many of them turn to domestic maids to take care of their children in the place of them.
Hence, the domestic maids are the ones who spent the longest time with the children. They replace the parents in terms of disciplining and talking to the children. In addition, they performed the household chores which are supposed to be done by the parents.
These leads to complications with the children feeling closer to the domestic maids than to the parents themselves due to more exposure to the maids. They tend to think of the domestic maids as their parents, thus turn to them for help when met with difficulties. Parents, to them, may feel like strangers instead.
To avoid these, parents should spend more precious time with their kids to build relationship. Nurturing the children should not be left solely to the domestic maids, parents have a significant part to play.
I agree that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
With the high standard of living in Singapore, thus in most families both parents would be working and hence hire a maid to look after the household as they not have the energy left to do the household chores when they come home.
This causes the time spend for bonding between the children and parents to be very little as compared to the time the maid spend with the children.
Parents are supposed to be the ones to nurture and educate their children especially at a young age. However, the maids have seem to be taking over in this aspect.
This may lead to some negative consequences. Children might treat the maid as their parent. A few months back there was a show on channel 5 showing a typical couple in Singapore hiring a maid to look after their 3 children since young. One day the mother planned a family outing without the maid tagging along to try and bond her family together. However, it proved to be harder than expected as there was a communication breakdown between them and the children are too dependent on the maid.
From this scenario, we can see how domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role if parents. Therefore, parents should spend more time to educate and nurture their children themselves to prevent communication breakdown. Furthermore, parents would not want their own children to not acknowledge the maid as the parent as the children are their own flesh and blood.
I agree that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
As the standard of living in Singapore is getting higher, both parents tend to work in the society compared to last time so as to support the family. This lead to the need to hire a maid to do household chores and at the same time both parents spending lesser time at home with their children.
When domestic maids spend more time at home doing household chores, at the same time, they obviously spend more time with the children at home. As the children spend more time with the maid, the children will tend to get more close to the maid instead of their own parents and to the extend that they might share their personal problems with the maid rather than their parents.
The time spend together is something money cannot buy. It takes patience, care, concern and love for the upbringing of a child.
Therefore, I agree that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
I agree with the statement "Domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.". As the standard of living in Singapore goes higher(eg increase of GST), there are now more and more dual income families in singapore.
As a result , many people hire maid at home to look after their children.Due to their work commitment, they are also not able to handle the role of parenting effectively. when problem arises , their children only have their maid to confide in.
in conclusion, it is the lack of communication and understanding between parents and child that cause this to happen.
i agree with the above statement.Parents these days dont have the time for their children.In order to support the family both parents have to work.This is the case for most middle class families.So most of the parenting of the kids is done by the maids.The maids do the nuturing.What the child becomes in the future will be affected by the maids.And in some cases the parents dont have the time for the kids.This is where the maids come in.
I agree with the statement. More and more families are hiring maids to help them take care of the household chores and also look after their children. They cook for the children, play with them and look after them. The quality time spent with the children are not by their parents. So when a child needs help, he or she will definitely go to the maid. Because the trust between the child and the maid has already been established. So parents should at least try to spend more time with their children. By:Jason DMR/1B/01
i agree with the statement. more and more parents are leaving their child at home with domestic maids.
as both of the parents are working, they would hire domestic maids to look after their child. eventually, it would be the maid spending more time with the child than the parents. the child would then turn to the maid if he or she faces any problems. thus the maid is taking over the role of parents. Kwan Leng from DMR/1B/01
With the increasing standards of living today, more women are venturing out to work to increase the income of the household. This means that there are less housewives to stay at home to look after their kids. Domestic maids are employed to help with kids and other household chores.
Many parents think that with the care from maids and occasional presents or monetary gifts from them, children will be content. What is wrong with this picture is that at the growing stage of a child, the most important factor to him is the love from parents, which means spending time with them, teaching them rights from wrongs, fetching them to and fro between classes etc. With the long working hours, not to mention the over time, it is impossible for parents to cater to every needs and whims of their kids. Hence, it is the maids that go to the rescue of the kids most of the time, playing the part of a parent.
This is a very sad truth, but domestic maids are taking over the roles of parents, such that sometimes, the kids feel a closer bond to them as compared to their own parents.
In fact,there are more and more parents inviting domestic maid to take care of their children beacause of their busy work.
During life ,the domestic maids in charge of taking care of children and the children make a deep love and belief to their" second parents".the children think their"second parents" can give them love ,care and concern and protect them.
In fact,domestic maids in singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
There are a lot of domestic maids in Singapore. Because a lot of Singaporean need them. In a usual family, there are grandparents, parents and children. The parents must go to work for the family’s expenditure. So, they have no enough time to take care of the grandparents and children. What they can do is engaging a domestic maid to take their place when they are not home.
Most of the grandparents can take care of themselves. So many domestic maids just take care of the children. They take the children to nursery school and pick them back. They cook for the kids. In a garden, the kids play with domestic maids. Most of time the children are wit domestic maids. But, they are should be the parents.
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I agree with the statement, "Domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents." Indeed, domestic maids perform typical chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, buying foods and drinks, accompanying the female head of the household for grocery shopping, taking the family dog for a walk, and taking care of the children etc. In my opinion, I think that the role of the parents is to ensure that they spend quality time with their child. In addition, the parent must be a good role model to the child. Nowadays, many domestic maids get to spend a lot of time with the children. However, I think that parents should also play a part in the upbringing of a child. Parents tend to leave the child in the care of the domestic maids and go to work and little time is spent with their child. As the child spends more time with the domestic maid, the child will be more attached to the maid instead of his parents. After a period of time, the child will gradually confide more in the maid as compared to his parents. Therefore, I think that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
Name:Sheery
Class:DAC/1B/07
Rui Zhen from DAC/1B/07:
I agree with the statement.More and more families are employing maids to take care of their families as the parents are to busy to do so.
Parents are spending less time with their children due to their busy work life and thus children nowadays are closer to their maids than their parents. If this continues, in the future, your children may not want to share his or her problems with you.
If you want to have children, it will be your responsibility to take care of them.Maids are employed to do household chores and not to be a parent.
Khatijah from DAC/1B/07
I agree.Though their job is to take care of the household chores,this days with parents busy with their work,maids are taking over the role as parents.When both parents are out to work,it is the maid that feed the kids,discipline them when they start throwing toys around and put them to bed when the parents are yet to be home.All these roles are meant to be played by the parents as that's what define a parents,disciplining,guiding and nurturing their kids.The consequences of such actions might lead to the kids to turn to their maid instead of their parents when problems arise.
To prevent such thing from happening,parents should spend more time at home and lesser time at work so that they have time to bond with their kids.If parents are not able to spare time for their kids,in my opinion they are not ready yet to ne one.
I agree with the statement.
It is part and parcel of life.
To have a high standard of living in Singapore, it has to be a dual income.
Unless the sole breadwinner has a high salary, the other party cannot afford to stay at home to take care of the children.
Parents will not have enough time to take care of your children 24 hours a day.
Hiring a maid will then be unavoidable.
What maids normally do:
- Household cleaning (washing, ironing, cooking)
- Waking the children up for school
- Bringing the children to school/fetching them back from school
- Feeding them when they are hungry
- Comforting children when they are sad (when parents are at work)
- Playing with the children
- Bathing them
- Coaxing them to sleep
Basically, maids usually end up taking care of the children's daily needs both physically and emotionally.
This is because they can only to turn to their maids when their parents are at work.
Most maids have already taken up the responsibilities of parents.
The time spent together slowly creates bonding between the child and the maid.
Therefore, it is important to make sure that the parents always have a deeper bond with the child rather the maid.
I agree with this statement to a large extent.
Today, there is an increasing number of people employing maids as both parents in the family will be working. The work of the maids involve doing household chores,taking care of the children and etc. Therefore the maids actually spend more time with the children. Children may have better relationship with the maids and may turn to them when they have problems. In some families, the children address the maid as mothers.
However this does not mean that domestic maids are taking over the role of parents. The role of parents is to take care of the children, discipline them and instill them with the necessary knowledge. Domestic maids do not have the right to discipline the children. I believe if parents see the maids holding the cane and lecturing their children, the parents will send the maids back to their country.
To prevent domestic maids taking over the role of parents, parents should spend more time with their children. It is important to ensure that the bond between children and parents are stronger than the bond between maids and children. In this way, parents are still parents in the eye of their children.
Gladys from DAC 1B/07
I agree to a certain extent that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
Nowadays,there are increasing numbers of career-minded people.These people may have got married and have a child but still carrying-on putting their jobs in the first place.Therefore there are many of such families who employ a maid to help look after their house and children as well while they concentrate on their jobs.Some parents have the misconception that what is most important for their child is to earn enough money to feed and support them for an education.These things may be important but not the most important of all things.The most important for a child is the concern from their parents at all times,teaching them what they can or cannot do.
However,many children do not have a chance to experience such things from their parents but from their maid instead.In some families,the maid that their parents employ seems to see the child for a longer number of hours than their parents.Thus slowly,the maid seems to have taken over the role of their parents by looking after their needs and wants,knowing where the child goes everyday and who are the friends that he or she brings home.All these information of the child that the maid knows are already more than what their parents know of their child.
Felixia from DAC/1B/07
I agree. Families with both parents working would often hire maids to look after their young children. Thus, the maid spends the most time with the child. Because of this, good relationships/bonds could be built through simple tasks such as bringing the child home from school or engaging in interactive games with him.
The long hours domestic maids spend with the children would result in the maids teaching the child things that the parent would never find time to do. For example, a simple walk around the estate would allow the child to see many different sights such as animals and objects. The child would learn names and gain information about such sights through the maid and not the parent.
Although some parents try to let their children take up extra lessons such as ballet or piano classes, nothing can be compared to spending quality time between parent and child, instead of time spent between maid and child. Even so, the maids are the ones shuttling the children to and from their classes.
If this continues, not only would bonds between parent and child be broken, the child would start picturing the maid as the parent and learn to lean on the wrong person. Parents should be well prepared before thinking of having a family.
I agree with the statement.
In accordance with the hectic working lives of most parents in Singapore, there leaves minimal time for their children. Many of them turn to domestic maids to take care of their children in the place of them.
Hence, the domestic maids are the ones who spent the longest time with the children. They replace the parents in terms of disciplining and talking to the children. In addition, they performed the household chores which are supposed to be done by the parents.
These leads to complications with the children feeling closer to the domestic maids than to the parents themselves due to more exposure to the maids. They tend to think of the domestic maids as their parents, thus turn to them for help when met with difficulties. Parents, to them, may feel like strangers instead.
To avoid these, parents should spend more precious time with their kids to build relationship. Nurturing the children should not be left solely to the domestic maids, parents have a significant part to play.
ariel DAC/1B/07
I agree that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
With the high standard of living in Singapore, thus in most families both parents would be working and hence hire a maid to look after the household as they not have the energy left to do the household chores when they come home.
This causes the time spend for bonding between the children and parents to be very little as compared to the time the maid spend with the children.
Parents are supposed to be the ones to nurture and educate their children especially at a young age. However, the maids have seem to be taking over in this aspect.
This may lead to some negative consequences. Children might treat the maid as their parent. A few months back there was a show on channel 5 showing a typical couple in Singapore hiring a maid to look after their 3 children since young. One day the mother planned a family outing without the maid tagging along to try and bond her family together. However, it proved to be harder than expected as there was a communication breakdown between them and the children are too dependent on the maid.
From this scenario, we can see how domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role if parents. Therefore, parents should spend more time to educate and nurture their children themselves to prevent communication breakdown. Furthermore, parents would not want their own children to not acknowledge the maid as the parent as the children are their own flesh and blood.
I agree that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
As the standard of living in Singapore is getting higher, both parents tend to work in the society compared to last time so as to support the family.
This lead to the need to hire a maid to do household chores and at the same time both parents spending lesser time at home with their children.
When domestic maids spend more time at home doing household chores, at the same time, they obviously spend more time with the children at home.
As the children spend more time with the maid, the children will tend to get more close to the maid instead of their own parents and to the extend that they might share their personal problems with the maid rather than their parents.
The time spend together is something money cannot buy. It takes patience, care, concern and love for the upbringing of a child.
Therefore, I agree that domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.
I agree with the statement "Domestic maids in Singapore today are taking over the role of parents.". As the standard of living in Singapore goes higher(eg increase of GST), there are now more and more dual income families in singapore.
As a result , many people hire maid at home to look after their children.Due to their work commitment, they are also not able to handle the role of parenting effectively. when problem arises , their children only have their maid to confide in.
in conclusion, it is the lack of communication and understanding between parents and child that cause this to happen.
pravin from dmr 1b/01
i agree with the above statement.Parents these days dont have the time for their children.In order to support the family both parents have to work.This is the case for most middle class families.So most of the parenting of the kids is done by the maids.The maids do the nuturing.What the child becomes in the future will be affected by the maids.And in some cases the parents dont have the time for the kids.This is where the maids come in.
I agree with the statement. More and more families are hiring maids to help them take care of the household chores and also look after their children. They cook for the children, play with them and look after them. The quality time spent with the children are not by their parents. So when a child needs help, he or she will definitely go to the maid. Because the trust between the child and the maid has already been established. So parents should at least try to spend more time with their children.
By:Jason DMR/1B/01
i agree with the statement. more and more parents are leaving their child at home with domestic maids.
as both of the parents are working, they would hire domestic maids to look after their child. eventually, it would be the maid spending more time with the child than the parents. the child would then turn to the maid if he or she faces any problems. thus the maid is taking over the role of parents.
Kwan Leng from DMR/1B/01
Tan Jia Hui from DMR1b01
With the increasing standards of living today, more women are venturing out to work to increase the income of the household. This means that there are less housewives to stay at home to look after their kids. Domestic maids are employed to help with kids and other household chores.
Many parents think that with the care from maids and occasional presents or monetary gifts from them, children will be content. What is wrong with this picture is that at the growing stage of a child, the most important factor to him is the love from parents, which means spending time with them, teaching them rights from wrongs, fetching them to and fro between classes etc. With the long working hours, not to mention the over time, it is impossible for parents to cater to every needs and whims of their kids. Hence, it is the maids that go to the rescue of the kids most of the time, playing the part of a parent.
This is a very sad truth, but domestic maids are taking over the roles of parents, such that sometimes, the kids feel a closer bond to them as compared to their own parents.
wang shunlai from DMR/1B/01
I agree
In fact,there are more and more parents inviting domestic maid to take care of their children beacause of their busy work.
During life ,the domestic maids in charge of taking care of children and the children make a deep love and belief to their" second parents".the children think their"second parents" can give them love ,care and concern and protect them.
In fact,domestic maids in singapore
today are taking over the role of parents.
XU QUANWEI from DMR/FT/1B/01
I agree.
There are a lot of domestic maids in Singapore. Because a lot of Singaporean need them. In a usual family, there are grandparents, parents and children. The parents must go to work for the family’s expenditure. So, they have no enough time to take care of the grandparents and children. What they can do is engaging a domestic maid to take their place when they are not home.
Most of the grandparents can take care of themselves. So many domestic maids just take care of the children. They take the children to nursery school and pick them back. They cook for the kids. In a garden, the kids play with domestic maids. Most of time the children are wit domestic maids. But, they are should be the parents.
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