Does type of housing really matters?

[skunk]

cluelessmom:

Anyways, I wld like to think tat the type of housing dun matter but in reality it does...

yes, it does matter, and denying it does won't make this type of mentality go away. But we can help by not emphasising it more than it already is, by not even talking about it, we're showing a signal to our children that it's a non-event.

Sometimes, the more we harp about something, the worse it gets.

[mrswongtuition]

Andaiz:

sleepy:

I asked my dd the same question too. I told her we are debt free now. If buy condo, must take loan. If default on loan, bank will take away the house & we will end up sleeping under the bridge. My dd :roll: & asked why risk so much for a swimming pool? The admission to swimming pool is only 50 cents

:grphug: sleepy, your dd really put things into perspective. :rotflmao:

Skunk, it's a good analogy...this mommy also thinks that Barbie is a bimbiotic toy. My gals don't have one...although they play with their cousin's or friend's. :roll: when they get a chance.

Swimming pool admission increased I think. I'm paying $0.80 for my boy and $1.50 per adult.

Anyway, unless you swim everyday and there are 10 people in your family who needs the pool on a daily basis, I see no need to move to condo just for a pool.

[corneyAmber]

mrswongtuition:

Swimming pool admission increased I think. I'm paying $0.80 for my boy and $1.50 per adult.

Anyway, unless you swim everyday and there are 10 people in your family who needs the pool on a daily basis, I see no need to move to condo just for a pool.

I have to agree... half the time the swimming pool in the condo is like ghost town.

[sleepy]

mrswongtuition:

Swimming pool admission increased I think. I'm paying $0.80 for my boy and $1.50 per adult.

Our nearest swimming pool is 50 cents admission for each child on weekdays.

Nicer ones like those in Sengkang or Jurong West with slides and jacuzzi are more expensive

[corneyAmber]

cluelessmom:

recently my dd was nominated to represent the school for a \"certain grand event\"... before she had to go for an interview wif the higher authorities to see if she wld be selected, she was given a form to fill in stating her address and her parents occapation...this was given before her selection process and I think it's a little telling on the purpose of the form.........

So was she selected eventually?

[Funz]

so far my kids have not exhibited such behaviour.


DD did come back from preschool once telling me about how a classmate dissed another for excitedly telling everyone his father drives a taxi when they were having a discussion on the types of transportation. I asked DD what she thinks. And she told me she thinks driving a taxi is cool. Asked her why and she said then you can collect money from people who sit your car.

I guess, to a certain extent, if the parents do not put too much stock into the type of housing then the children too will not really bother. My kids do not really compare. They have been to friends living in HDB and those who live in landed property as well as condos. What matters to them is the ‘contents’ in the house or the activities available, I guess.

[ooptimizer]

Usually if the kids are very young, simple occupations may look cool, but it will not look so cool when the kids are in secondary school or JC age.

[corneyAmber]

ooptimizer:

Usually if the kids are very young, simple occupations may look cool, but it will not look so cool when the kids are in secondary school or JC age.

However, kids no matter what age they are, should be taught to respect all occupations as long as they earn a living in a decent way. 行行出状元, no matter what profession, if one knows how to do it well and extraordinarily, it can be cool... We should not let the kids stereotype the occupations if we want to encourage them to \"think out of the box\".

The first person who baked bread probably never think that there could be super bread chains like BreadTalk and Four Leaves today. The butcher(pig farmer) who now runs the multi-million Sheng Siong probably making his kids'(assuming he has kids) classmates heads turn today when yesterday they might think he/she was just a butcher's(pig farmer's) kid.

[jedamum]

ks2me:

However, kids no matter what age they are, should be taught to respect all occupations as long as they earn a living in a decent way. 行行出状元, no matter what profession, if one knows how to do it well and extraordinarily, it can be cool... We should not let the kids stereotype the occupations if we want to encourage them to \"think out of the box\".

yes. just today ds1 watched Spongebob Squarepants when Squidward's (a character) rich cousin laughed at him for being a cashier; my boy asked me what's wrong with being a cashier; my husband explained that there is nothing wrong and that the cousin was being shallow and silly.

another vivid example of stereotyping of occupation came as a rude surprise when we attended a talk by my ds1's school - the speaker was talking about nurturing kids based on their inborn character 'colours'; what strike us as a rude comment is her statement of (something) like, '.....do you want your child to grow up to be just a hairdresser?\" what's wrong with being a hairdresser? she could have rephrase it to be 'do you want your child to grow up to be the best that she can?\" :roll: speaker from MOE-licensed vendor somemore.... :roll:

[VitoRelax]

jedamum:

ks2me:

However, kids no matter what age they are, should be taught to respect all occupations as long as they earn a living in a decent way. 行行出状元, no matter what profession, if one knows how to do it well and extraordinarily, it can be cool... We should not let the kids stereotype the occupations if we want to encourage them to \"think out of the box\".

yes. just today ds1 watched Spongebob Squarepants when Squidward's (a character) rich cousin laughed at him for being a cashier; my boy asked me what's wrong with being a cashier; my husband explained that there is nothing wrong and that the cousin was being shallow and silly.

another vivid example of stereotyping of occupation came as a rude surprise when we attended a talk by my ds1's school - the speaker was talking about nurturing kids based on their inborn character 'colours'; what strike us as a rude comment is her statement of (something) like, '.....do you want your child to grow up to be just a hairdresser?\" what's wrong with being a hairdresser? she could have rephrase it to be 'do you want your child to grow up to be the best that she can?\" :roll: speaker from MOE-licensed vendor somemore.... :roll:

must :heresmyfish: :heresmyfish: :heresmyfish: the speaker & ask her to apologize ...

Ask the Association of Hairdresser to protest .... talk never use the blain ...