PIETY AND PARENTING: Time with parents speaks volumes
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May 18, 2010 - ST Forum
PIETY AND PARENTINGTime with parents speaks volumes
IT SADDENS me when I read the report about the young neglecting to care for their parents ('Good son fights for all neglected parents'; May 7).
My parents live on their own in Bishan too. My father is a 75-year-old retired civil servant and my mother, a housewife, is 69.
I visit my parents every Sunday and have lunch with them in their home along with my wife and two sons. We have been doing this for the past 15 years.
Every Sunday morning, my family visits Tekka market to buy the ingredients and necessary groceries and then lunch at my parents' home.
My two sons, aged 15 and 10, like these family-bonding activities. My sons know that however busy or preoccupied I am on Sundays, I make it a point to spend time with my parents, without fail.
The Government should think of more ways to encourage filial piety, which will in turn encourage children to live with their parents or spend time regularly with them.
V. Balu
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May 18, 2010 - ST Forum
Sad state
'If our children continue to sponge on us when they are employed, where's filial piety?'
MS TAN ENG LIAN: 'I refer to the report, 'Old folks in S'pore an asset to their families' (April 30). How long must a parent provide for an unmarried graduate in his 30s who still lives under the same roof? How does one ask for money when he refuses to give? How does a parent tell him to move out? When I was younger, I helped support my parents, but in my old age, I continue to support my children. If our children continue to sponge on us when they are employed, where's filial piety?'
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
May 18, 2010 - ST Forum
Sad state
'If our children continue to sponge on us when they are employed, where's filial piety?'
MS TAN ENG LIAN: 'I refer to the report, 'Old folks in S'pore an asset to their families' (April 30). How long must a parent provide for an unmarried graduate in his 30s who still lives under the same roof? How does one ask for money when he refuses to give? How does a parent tell him to move out? When I was younger, I helped support my parents, but in my old age, I continue to support my children. If our children continue to sponge on us when they are employed, where's filial piety?'
this is not abt filial piety le... more abt being independant and mature... Children shld learn from young to be independant...nowadays the younger generation are too sheltered... abit abit complain... cannot take stress, abit then fall sick despite better environment... secondary and primary school kids carry handphone becoz parents buy for them... Last time u have to ownself save money or work to afford one (pager that is
)...Last week I just heard abt a conversation on a student to her peers, boasted abt how she took her mother to a resturant to celebrate mothers day... How they ate expensive food but remarked that her mother foot the bill >____> fail sia >___>
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
this is not abt filial piety le... more abt being independant and mature... Children shld learn from young to be independant...nowadays the younger generation are too sheltered... abit abit complain... cannot take stress, abit then fall sick despite better environment... secondary and primary school kids carry handphone becoz parents buy for them... Last time u have to ownself save money or work to afford one (pager that is
)...Last week I just heard abt a conversation on a student to her peers, boasted abt how she took her mother to a resturant to celebrate mothers day... How they ate expensive food but remarked that her mother foot the bill >____> fail sia >___>
kids are kids, some fail to grow up.
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wah lau grow up sure become burden
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
kids are kids, some fail to grow up.
yeah...