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    VOICE OF A YOUNG MOTHER IN SINGAPORE

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    • C Offline
      concern2
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      MR06:
      CloudeeDaz:

      [quote=\"AC_Power\"]I like the idea of having childcare centre near workplaces of working parents. However, my concern would be how high these child care centres are going to charge? Rental in prime areas is not going to be cheap.



      True.

      :idea: So the next best thing……..

      Set aside a holding room at the work place.

      Parents bring the kids to the office, deposit them at tne holding room

      Every morning, a huge caravan will come and pick the kids up,

      Send them to the childcare centre at some ulu place where the rent is cheap.

      At the end of the day, the kids will be delivered back to the holding area,
      ready for collection when the parents finished work 😄

      It may soon be a reality, not an exaggeration if we choose to be led by the nose to progress towards achieving economic benefits at the expense of everything else.

      Try imagining your child living the life of a SAHP if he/she doesn't belongs to the highest economic echelon.[/quote]Sorry, I don't get what you mean by the sentence in bold. Can elaborate?

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        pirate
        last edited by

        MR06:
        CloudeeDaz:

        [quote=\"AC_Power\"]I like the idea of having childcare centre near workplaces of working parents. However, my concern would be how high these child care centres are going to charge? Rental in prime areas is not going to be cheap.



        True.

        :idea: So the next best thing……..

        Set aside a holding room at the work place.

        Parents bring the kids to the office, deposit them at tne holding room

        Every morning, a huge caravan will come and pick the kids up,

        Send them to the childcare centre at some ulu place where the rent is cheap.

        At the end of the day, the kids will be delivered back to the holding area,
        ready for collection when the parents finished work 😄

        It may soon be a reality, not an exaggeration if we choose to be led by the nose to progress towards achieving economic benefits at the expense of everything else.

        Try imagining your child living the life of a SAHP if he/she doesn't belongs to the highest economic echelon.[/quote]Actually har, it's this part I don't get. Led by whom?

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        • M Offline
          MR06
          last edited by

          Why nobody understand my post? Must be wrong frequency.

          Concern2, what I envisaged may not be how you imagine the future would be like. Anyway, I was adding the Grandma story when you posted your reply. You may want to read it if you have missed it.

          Are modern pirates robbing the commoners instead of the rich armed fleets? Surely they know the ways of the world, the movers, the shakers, the history makers.

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            pirate
            last edited by

            MR06:
            Why nobody understand my post? Must be wrong frequency.

            Concern2, what I envisaged may not be how you imagine the future would be like. Anyway, I was adding the Grandma story when you posted your reply. You may want to read it if you have missed it.

            Are modern pirates robbing the commoners instead of the rich armed fleets? Surely they know the ways of the world, the movers, the shakers, the history makers.
            So you meant \"led by the nose\" by some hypothetical person or persons? Because I don't recall anybody advocating \"progress towards achieving economic benefits at the expense of everything else\". Maybe I missed a memo, directive or speech somewhere.
            :?

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            • sharonkhooS Offline
              sharonkhoo
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              MR06:
              Why nobody understand my post? Must be wrong frequency.

              Concern2, what I envisaged may not be how you imagine the future would be like. Anyway, I was adding the Grandma story when you posted your reply. You may want to read it if you have missed it.

              Are modern pirates robbing the commoners instead of the rich armed fleets? Surely they know the ways of the world, the movers, the shakers, the history makers.
              I don't get your post either, especially:
              Try imagining your child living the life of a SAHP if he/she doesn't belongs to the highest economic echelon.
              Are you saying that it will be impossible to be a SAHP if you aren't rich? Isn't that what a lot of people feel today?

              As for the grandma story, yes it's quite true, but I still don't get your point. I'm 12 yrs younger than that hypothetical grandma and lots of is true for me too. But I don't see what you are trying to illustrate.

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                MR06
                last edited by

                :faint:


                http://i49.tinypic.com/2mxqul1.jpg\">

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                • C Offline
                  CloudeeDaz
                  last edited by

                  MR06:
                  Why nobody understand my post? ..............

                  i got the grandma story....hehe ...it takes one to noe one :evil:

                  but dont understand yr other comments also leh
                  MR06:
                  It may soon be a reality, not an exaggeration if we choose to be led by the nose to progress towards achieving economic benefits at the expense of everything else.

                  Try imagining your child living the life of a SAHP if he/she doesn't belongs to the highest economic echelon.
                  Got relation to grandma story meh?
                  why so cheem one?

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                  • sharonkhooS Offline
                    sharonkhoo
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                    MR06:
                    :faint:


                    http://i49.tinypic.com/2mxqul1.jpg\">
                    Sorry, was that an explanation? This not-yet-grandma can't see because it's too small!

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                    • P Offline
                      pirate
                      last edited by

                      This grandma also knows how to pull a fast one. As far as I can tell, penicillin, television, FM radio broadcasts, electric typewriters and ball-point pens were all commercially available before 1952. No wonder sometimes the young don't believe us. :skeptical:

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                        wonderm
                        last edited by

                        slmkhoo:
                        MR06:

                        :faint:


                        http://i49.tinypic.com/2mxqul1.jpg\">

                        Sorry, was that an explanation? This not-yet-grandma can't see because it's too small!

                        Can see but still catch no ball because it is not an explanation. Luckily it seems I am not the only one who needs a \"more obvious explanation\".

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