BlueBells:

Can your neighbour help to fetch your child?

For me, I have the same issue, so I negotiated with my boss to start work 30 min earlier and ends my day 30 min earlier in time to fetch my kid from the student care.

nigelcindy:

Hi Happyfather,

now ur kid @ student care or child care?

Currently my son go to Faith Educare (sengkang blk 260D) and they operates till 9pm. They just started this yr operating till 9pm (if not wrong) but we choose not to let him stay till so late so there's no changes on the school fee. currently i'm paying abt 300. (after subsidy)

You can check this out, they have 2 branches in SK (Blk 202 - if not wrong and Blk 260D)

Buangkok and Punggol also hv branches but i do not know if their operating hrs is the same for all branches.


Hope tis can help to solve ur current problems........

buds:

Heyya happyfather,

Firstly, upon coming to this forum do introduce yourself @ the newbies
section. Click here >http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewforum.php?f=28 It will help fellow forum users to get
to know you better and also attend to any queries or doubts you
may have pertaining to child raising issues, parenting issues, (etc)
You may also even find friends here you may be able to help you out.

Secondly, my suggestion is to make as many acquaintances as you can
at the P1 Open House or the P1 Registration and so on... Mebbe you can
find a friend of your child from kindergarten/childcare attending the same
Primary school as your child to help in case you're late. To be fair, you
can contribute a small $$$ token/contribution for the effort. The family
may have to provide your child dinner while waiting for you to arrive for
pick up. (I'm assuming your child might be in the PM session in P1 lah...)

Thirdly, you can earnestly inquire from the BASC of choice whether they
can accommodate your child in a certain way... for example, there are
teachers who can bring the child back to their homes in certain cases...
especially, for parents who are very close to the centre's teachers or
have a very good centre-parent relationship with the centre.....

Fourth... i do agree with ksmummy to a point where you can ask a
neighbour to help out too, as a last resort. Cos since you know this
issue will be of a daily problem for you (to be punctual for pick up)
you can at least in your free time say weekends... make yourself
and your family known to the people in your community/flat.

I guess if it were my situation, i would make all efforts to put myself
out there to everyone and anyone in my spare time, make more frenz
through parents of my kiddies pre-school with tea-parties or play-dates,
or make conversations with as many neighbours as i can during the time
i bring my kiddies for playground time.

Currently, i have an unspoken arrangement with a neighbour at the TOP
floor of my residence that we look out for one another's child should any
one of us be late. There was occasion whereby i fell asleep from
exhaustion after running errands and picking up my younger one from
school and she was down with slight fever. So, i sorta konk-ed out while
sponge-ing her head... :oops: I didn't even hear the doorbell! That was
how tired i was! To make things worse, my hph was on vibration/silent
mode so as to not disturb my girl who wasn't well and needing the rest..
I woke up to find 8 missed calls from an unknown number and realised
it had been an hour past the transport pick-up downstairs! There wasn't
a word to describe my panic! In short, it was through this incident that i
realised that those times i engaged someone from my neighbourhood in
casual talk, i had an extra pair of eyes to help me look out for my house
and my family in any event i was not around. God bless these kind souls.


Where i stay, it's like everybody knows everybody... :celebrate:
And i do like it that way.

PS : I like it in a sense that it isn't a kay-poh kinda relationship,
but instead, a friendly... cordial... neighbourly relationship.

ksmummy:

How about engaging a friendly neighbour's help (if you are living near to the BASC) to pick up your child in the event that you will be late?