Today is Singapore's National Day. We are going to celebrate it by having BBQ at home. Children are so excited. There is another cause for celebration as I found out that I am not pregnant. Singapore's government said to have babies only if you can afford them. Well! I had mentioned in my earlier blog that we won't be able to afford if we are going to have quality of life. Many of the youngsters probably felt the same, more children means they have to give up on luxury items and less holidays board. Having children in Singapore is a constant challenge for many singaporeans. Women especially as the working culture in Singapore is not pro-family. If you take too many no pay leave, you will be asked to leave as you are not being profesional.
The choice of having 4 kids was that Joe being an only child and he said it was too quite sad growing up alone. During my father-in-law's hospitalization, he had to struggle to take care of his dad and he had nobody to turn to. We had Charlynn and the twins came along after that. We decided to have another young one as it will be nice to have someone to tag along us when the older kids were older.
Anyway, enough talk on children. What is ours, we take care. My family is not perfect but we are learning everyday as to how to become better parents. Maybe the government should have courses for the young adults to teach them how to be better parents so that they can handle their children at ease and will be encouraged to give birth to more children.
Happy National Day Singapore and the trend now is having skilled immigrants to boost the population. Our ancestors are immigrants and wherever the pasture is greener, teh people will move. Besides having more babies, are we doing enough to keep our fellow valued Singaporeans as well!
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