{"id":4388,"date":"2012-06-24T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2012-06-24T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T09:08:42","slug":"can-singapore-live-without-maids-is-this-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"Can Singapore live without maids? Is this possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, Singapore has thousands of maids.  They are in the homes, looking after babies, sick and disabled elderlies, and families who compare the financial benefits and see it is cheaper to have a maid than not working.  With a maid, these families see they would benefit from a better standard of living, instead of wasting their lives doing washing, cooking and cleaning the house.  So nice to come home from work, and into a clean house.<\/p>\n

It’s a headache to look after babies and young children.  They scream and yell, throw the toys around the house, scribble pencil drawings on the walls, and spill milk and chocolate ice cream on the sofas.  Babies wake up in the middle of the night, cry and cry until they get picked up and have their stomachs filled. Which of the parents would wake up; or it will be the maid who has to do so.<\/p>\n

After a whole day of hard work, can one really come home and cook for our elderly parents.  Then, bathe them, put them in front of the TV, chat with them, and later put them to bed.  So, nice to have a maid. They get to endure all the calls and screams from our parents who may have dementia and temperamental.<\/p>\n

What if one day, the country says, "No maids".  After all, in many countries, there are no maids at all.  These are very developed countries.  Elderly folks stay in the homes, with plenty of friends around.  Babies, why cant women stay at home and look after the kids.  If the wives are not doing it, then the men can.  Or put the kids in a childcare centre, then go to work. Then, rush home after work, and pick them up.<\/p>\n

Food, cook them one week in advance, freeze them and then go for the microwave.  Rice, it does not take a long time.  Soup, fix the slow cooker.  Today, home tasks can be productive, there is this round little robot, that can vacuum a 5 room flat within two hours.<\/p>\n

Do you have a maid at home?  Can you do without a maid?  Why do we need to have maids and have all the maids problems.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a good chat on this topic.  Let’s respect the opinions of other members.  Feel free to have a say.<\/p>\n

Terence Seah <\/p>\n

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Today, Singapore has thousands of maids.  They are in the homes, looking after babies, sick and disabled elderlies, and families who compare the financial benefits and see it is cheaper to have a maid than not working.  With a maid, these families see they would benefit from a better standard of living, instead of wasting … Continue reading “Can Singapore live without maids? Is this possible?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}