March Holiday
March holiday homework:
Women are natural care-givers so women should stay home to take care of the children.
Do you agree?
There are actually two parts to this question. You'll first need to agree/disagree with the earlier part of the sentence - 'Are women natural care-givers?'. Secondly, answer the question whether you think women should stay home to take care of their children. At this point, think about men staying at home instead. Are men natural care-givers too?
Other points to ponder: What about stereotypical notions (ideas) about men and women staying at home?
*Deadline: 16th March 2007 (Friday) 12am.
*Do not post comments referring to others
*You only need to post one comment
*Minimum 150words
*Only quality and constructive comments will be taken into account
*This is worth 10% of your class marks.
32 comments:
I agree that women are natural caregivers but that doesn't mean that they have to stay at home to look after the children.Why should they stay at home when they still have their rights and 'freedom'. They have the choice to look after the children or send the children to the chilcare centre etc.
Women who got married, will have difficulty looking for jobs either because their children may cause trouble and have to take leave often or the women might not get the job if they didn't meet the requirements for the job.
Men going out and work. They sometimes have to work overtime and sometimes end work early. Mostly Singaporean guys know how to cook but why can't they look after the children themselves or maybe take turns to look after the children. If there are guys without jobs after all his interviewings, he should just stay at home and look after the children and let his wife go out and work. At least both husband and wife share the burden together and the husband get to experience the life at home as a 'househuband' instead of housewife.
It's better to let both husband and wife experience the life of each other taking care of the children. So what when women are natural caregivers that doesn't mean guys can't be too. Men can play their part as in use their free time and spend it on their children.
Both parents should spend their free time on their children at least. Kids can go 'bad' if the parents are always busy and not knowing what is going on with their children during school hours. Parents play an important part in teaching the children and if the parents always quarrel in front or behind the children, the environment of the children is 'bad'.
this is just a rough copy... I'm still editing the actual draft because I know I sure forget what I last posted... Miss Ang can you please correct me? I don't really know what to do for this I totally have no idea.
lai mun
I agree that women are natural care-givers but I do not agree that women should stay at home to take care of the children and there is no law stating that women must stay at home to take care of the children and be a housewife. Women can still continue to work even after getting married, the children can either send to the children's grandparents to take care of the children or send to a childcare centre and the parents can fetch them after work.
When a woman got married she still can continue working, the man got no rights to control the woman even though he is her husband.
Men can be a househusband, if men become a househusband, people may think the men rely on the women but people just always had that mindset of women should stay at home and men should work. To me I don't find it weird for a men staying at home to take care of the children. Now majority of the chefs are men, men actually got the ability to be a househusband. Women do not need to be the one who is always at home taking care of te children, doing the housework and so on, men can do that too. Not every men are natural care-givers, only some of them are natural care-givers.
Parents should have time to be with their children as children may feel that their parents do not care about them when their parents are always working and do not have time to accompany them.
Women and men are equal.
Brenda
I think that both men and women can be a natural caregivers if they want to be!
Both of them also have the right to hire a maid to take care of everything that the maid is required to do. So, they will not be so worried that something might happened at home.
They also can send their children to the childcare centres for the people working there to take care of their children.
For this kind of situation, I agree and also disagree with the question that is being posted at the blog itself.
Chan Guan Xiong(29)
Class 2E2
I would definitely disagree.
So what if they are natural caregivers? That does not mean they should stay at home, look after the children, and watch every single day go by. It is meaningless.
In fact, they should go out and work to get experience and not let the husband be the sole-breadwinner even if he has a white-collared job. What if one day her husband passes away or became disabled, and she has to go out to work to support the family? She would not have any sort of working experience, thus having to perhaps settle for a job that will command a lower salary than what her husband used to draw.
Having to work, she will then have to employ a domestic worker to look after the household, which in turn may lead to the family struggling to make ends meet due to a lowered salary and extra expenses.
Brandon Ho
2e2
I agree that women are natural care-givers , but i don't think that they should always be the ones staying at home , waiting for their working husbands to come home . Some husbands are considerate enough to let their wives to work instead of staying home caring their children and house , so the husbands let their wives to work , when they themselves stay at home , caring for their children and their house 74. It is , of course , not easy for the husbands to take over their wives' job to take care of the children and house at first , so there may be two results , one , the husband told the wives that they are not suited for the job and asked them to swap places back to the normal , the wives at the home , the husbands working . The second result is , the husbands become used to their job of caring the children and the house , that the couple continue with their roles , the husband at the house , the wife working .
Done By : Alan , 2E2 , 26
Yes,i agree that women are natural care-givers.The women give birth to the childrens, so they need to take care of them and not put them in childcare centres.Cause if they do,the relationship between them will not be so close,about half of the day the children are in the care centres,come back eat dinner and sleep,the next day comes.I think mothers having close realationship with their child is important.If the child have any problem they may talk to their mothers.Mothers at home being a housewife waiting for their child to come back from school,the child may not be going with bad company because they know someone is at home waiting for them.
Men is different they cannot be staying at home,they are the head of the house,they need to work hard for their family giving them a good life.And when men are working hard for the family , the women should morally support the men.Example of cooking a delicious meal for them after they knocked off work at the evening.Having a good wife at home looking after the house and family,is the key to a happy family.
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Chan ze yang(30)
2e2
12/3/07
I most cetainly adree that women are natural caregiversbut that does not mean that they don't have the right to work.Though women are natural,they have a choice to let the men do the care giving or doing it themsevles.Most women stay at home as the men are normally the ones that works to provide for the family but sometimes the women have no support and have to work to provide for the child,in this kind of situation,the childcare center comes in to help.
One of the womens reason for staying at home is that sometimes the job may ask for people that are more fit or brtter looking,it is quite selfish.The men are also normally more caperable as they can work under pressure and stuff like that while most women can't.Another reason is that families especily poor families only let the boys study as chinese normally think that the women should stay at home while the men work to provide for the family.
I think that both men and women so have a chance to prove themselves by taking turns to take care of the child,somethimes the men might take care of the child as they have experience maybe from young with their younger siblings.My point is that both parents should have chance to take care of the child as a neglaction from any one can cause the child to become bullies or outcasted by their peers.
My point is that even if women are natural,does not mean that the men should not have a chance to take care of the child as well,childrn need all the care the can get while they are young or the might go'bad'.
Adriel Yeo
2E2
I agree that women are natural caregivers but they don't really need to stay at home to look after the children because they also have the freedom to do what they want to do. They can just send the children to the childcare or ask their maid to look after the kid.
Most of the women today, might want to get married at a later age because they want their career to be a success first and then continue with their marriage. Maybe because they don't want the children to interfer in their career or their bachelor life...
As for the mens,i think that they are very irresponsible and they think that they are the boss of the house. And they go around bossing people what to do. They think that only women should do alll the houseworks while they order the women what they should do for them. And some of the men would lie to their wifes that they are going to the office when they actually go to other places to have fun.
I think men should stay at home to do the housework because as you know that women are actually more capable of having a successful career then men. But i don't think that some of the singaporean knows how to take care of children or do any housework...Anyways, i think women are better in everything than mens...
Binu
2E2
I agree that women are natural caregivers, because baby stay in mother's womb for 9months,that mean that baby are more close to mother than father.
I disagree that women should stay at home take care of the baby.The responsibility of the taking care of the baby is both mother and father, that means male also have to take care of the baby.
In some case , the male cannot find any job but he know how to do housework , so he have to stay and take care the baby while the wife go work to earn a living.
If both parents don't know how to take care of the baby and they give it to someone else to take care, they should spend some time with them because the children will think that their parents are not caring for them.
But women are born with the ability to take care of baby, so in this world , many women stay at home to take care of the baby.
this is (NICOLA)(15)(2e2)...
I agree that women are natural caregivers but i don't think that only women should take care of the children.As the parent of the children i think both parent should be responsible to care for the children.
Having both parent going to work the relationship may not be so close because that parent do come back late.When they reached home, thay may be tired or feeling sleepy so they have no time to chat or communicate with their children so i disagree having both parent having work.
And I think women should stay at home bacause most women do know how to cook and doing housework and have more capability of taking care of children.
Having maid taking care of children also a bad choice bacause i think the children will slowly be closer to the maid so i disagree having maid.
So Mother is the best choice taking care of children.
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-Sherman 2E2
I agree that women are the natural caregivers as the mother is the one who gave birth to the child since the day the child was born. The mother, is also the one who gave birth to the child, and the first one to see the child.
Since the day the child was born, the person the child needs the most is the mother as the mother is the one who feeds and teaches the child, the mother also watches the child grow up. This way, the bond between the mother and child grows stronger.
I think the mother should start working only when the child is old enough, as the child must learn to be independant and not rely on the mother too much. But that does not mean that the child have more freedom to do what he or she wants to do, but rely on himself or herslef more.
As for the father, I think he should be the one working as he should be the one putting food on the table. But when he is free especially on weekends, he should help the wife to take care of the child. After all, he is also responsible for the child and has to fufill his duty as a good father and husband.
-Tessa 23 2E2.
I most certainly agree and believe that women are natural caregivers, as I feel that they are the main individuals who should attend to the needs of the kids. However, I do not agree that it is a must for a woman to stay at home and attend to the children, I think dads can do that too. But that depends on the situation and the decision a couple makes. If the woman wants to work, and the dad prefers to stay at home, why not if the family can afford it? However in my opinion, I strongly feel that mothers should take a stronger hand in raising the kids. Staying home, taking care of the kids, cleaning, and cooking is a full time job, and I feel that females are more up to it. At the same time, I think women would prefer to stay home and spend time with the kids than to work, as motherhood can be the most rewarding experience a woman will ever have.
Tina…
I believe that woman are natural care givers as they can attend to the children emotional and physical needs.Studies have shown that during the pregnancy,the emotional bonding between the baby and the mother is already there.When the unborn baby feels uncomfortable during sleep,the mother makes sure both she and the baby sleeps in a comfortable position.Mothers are naturally gentle and most fathers are rough,they cannot express their emotions and rather beat their children as a form of punishment.
Religion and society makes an influence whether the mother should stay at home and take care of babies.In the middle east,the woman only stay at home and take care of the children.But in the western world like America,their perception is different.The woman also can work and they can let their relatives take care of their young children .I strongly believe that man and woman are equal and woman should not stay at home only.They have the freedom but also they have the responsibility as parents.
I think men staying at home is a case by case basis.Some of this men are physically disabled or unemployed.They can only be at home and take care of children and the chores.Some man are great cooks and good at house chores.Hence,men can be natural care-givers too if they have certain abilities or characters like most women have.
ARCHIE,2E2
i would say both mother and father are good care givers and a child always need both mother's and father's care so as to know the rights and wrongs.
Particularly i would say mother as she is the one who can controll her own child and teachs as well if a child has no mother there is a lot of chasges for that child to have bad influences.
If they has one it will destroy their future totally-if they are addited to drinking it will be hard for them to forget about drinking and there are people.
Some of these people with out mother would even attempt suside for no reason and also mens go for work wemans at home can take care of their children so i would say womens are the best care-givers and they must stay at home and take care of their children.
uma,
2e2
(5)
I disagree.Many women can work as well as men,even if they say women are natural caregivers,there are men who can give care to children just as well as women,women can do important jobs just as well as men while men can take care of children just as well as women.
Men can stay at home to take care of the children,while women can go out to work,if the couple are happy with this kind of arrangement,then they should not let other people tell them this is wrong,there is no rule on this.
Women can go to work and ask their husbands to take care of their children if they want to,as long as thehusband is ok.Even if the husband is unhappy over this arrangement,one of them must take care of the children and the husband has no power over his wife.
If both husband and wife work,they should employ a maid to help them take care of the children but they should take care of their children now and then.
King lam(40)
2e2
I agree that women are natural care-givers but I don't think that women should stay at home to take care of the children.Because children are not only belong to the female,but to the male as well.So that men are also have responsibility to look after their child.
But many women choose to stay at home because their husbands have a better job than them.However,some women have better job than their husband,they cannot stay at home for taking care of the child so that the child will be looked after by their father.
And I think most of the women are more worried about their child than the men so that they want to look after their child by themselves.
Lastly,because of the traditional ideology,men go out to earn money and women should stay at home to do all the housework.But with the change of the development,characters will exchange.
I agree that women are natural care-givers, but I do not think that they must stay at home, take care of children alone, or do housework. They still have choices to do anything what they want to do. Also, taking care of the children is not only a responsibility of female, but also a responsibility of male.
But, a woman will be hard to do a job after she was married and got children, as the children will make many trouble. Also because of maternal instinct, most of the women may leave the work for the children for a period. I agree that children need mother accompany them, but I also think that father should also spend some time as long as possible on accompanying with the family, so it can improve the relationship between the children and parents.
Lastly, if the wife has a better job than the husband, it is possible that the husband stays at home to take care of the children and the wife works outside.
I agree that woman are natural caregivers because they had the passion in taking care of children.But i disagree that woman should stay at home to take care of their children.
Woman should go out to work after they had give birth is because to build their career,contribute to the family and society,better mantal heel being gets to mix around with other people outside,free to do what she wants to and not being tie down with house chores.
Men are also natural caregivers too!But they are care givers in the financial way.I think that men should continue to work too,because by nature men are made to be bread-winners,they may lack of certain quality that are only unique to woman.Example:Men generally may not be sensitive to the child's feeling as how a mother would feel.
Both men and woman shared the same responsibility.Even though both were working,they should shared the house hold with each another,because it makes communication promoted and also lead them to stronger bonds.I am sure that society would not feel the threat of low birth rate,or divorce cases and the child would also benefits from the attention by the parents.
As for their child,they could put them in the childcare and then go pick them up after their work or hired a maid to look after their child at home to ensure their child safety and others.
Name:Sharon(22)
Class:2E2
I do agree that women are natural care-givers, but should they stay at home to take care of the children? No, I would never agree!
When a woman becomes a graduate, she would have high ambitions and she goes on to search for a job. Nowadays, most of the women are educated and talented, and they have the desire to work.
Take for an instance; most of the women probably have their career in the first place. If women stayed at home as housewives, they might get into complete boredom.
If women go to work, there is a certainty that they will get work experience. As a matter of fact, many firms understand that giving work experience to women would benefit everyone in the long term as women have the ability to work hard and grow the economy like men.
Men can be natural care-givers too if they know how to treat their child/children in a proper and stable manner. If not, they could send their children to the child care-centre.
Nevertheless, my opinion is parents should take care of their children most of the time so that there would be a closer bond between the parents and the children. It is a fact that in societies with strong family bonds, people tend to live longer. Therefore, both men and women being natural care-givers are very important.
yI agree that women are natural caregiver but it doesn't mean that they have to stay home to look after the childrens and do houseworks.They have their rights for their freedoms.
Nowadays, most of the women want to marry at their later age after a successful career because when they get married, they will have children and they will have trouble with their works and houseworks.
As for men, they are lazy and don't really know about houseworks and taking care about childrens. So it could be a disaster if women leaves the childrens to men.
So it best that women stays at home to take care of their childrens and housework but that does not mean that women do not have their rights for their freedoms.
Even though men can't do housework and take of their childrens but they should play a part by helping around when they can and also provinding monthly salary.
Himalee, 2e2
i agree that women are caregivers.That does not mean they should saty at home and look after the childrens.it is also the men's job to look after the family.the men should also look afer the children when the women is not free.the men and women should take turns to look aster the children.
when both parties get married it means that they both are responsible for their family.
So the should do their part as well and not to give order as some of the men does.As they will say as women u should stay at home and look after the childrean and as the men he shall earn money for the family.Well that was in the past and now it is different so i totally disagree as both parties should take care of the family.
in this way it will be more easier for both paries to comminucate with their children.usually when te men go to work and the women stay at home the women will always be closer to the childre tan men as the men would not have time to comminucate with the children.so ti is good that tey take turns to take care of the children.
rajiv
2e2
Yes, I agree that women are natural care-givers because i believe mostly women are more patient than men do. Men doesn't react with their emotion but women do.
I totally disagree that women should stay at home to take care of their children. If women should stay at home looking after their children, then whats the use of women having university education when after they married they must be a housewife, Its a waste of effort and money.If women need to be a housewife after they married, i think there will be lesser women wants to get married.
Both women and men are human being, so we must treat them equally.They should have their choice to lead their life.If women could be a housewife, then i see nothing wrong why men couldn't be a househusband too.
Being a parent, they must have the responsibility to take care of their children. They shouldn't because of their work and neglect them.
Wensi
I argree that women are natural caregivers,during the pregnant period,the longer it is,the thicker the bond between the mother and the child.And naturally,the mother and the child's relationship will be closer,usually.
In my point-of view,i suggest women to stay at home to take care of the child.this way,you will get to know your child better,discipline them in a right way.
Sending them to childcare centre or hiring a maid is not a good idea to me,if the mother was working and she leave the child in the childcare centre,they will have less time together,then,it might end up that the child will felt uncomfortable being with the mother when he or she is used to be with other people.
Hiring a maid to take care of the child mainly,is even worse,the child will soon get use of having a maid as company when time pass by,then,the child might even trust the maid more than his or her own mother!At that time,the mother will found out that her child will proberly treat her as a stranger or 'people who brings money home,like dad'Also,when the mother is working,she would not even have the idea if the maid will or not,abuse the child.There are also lots of news on paper or television that some maids abuse,humilate,and even trys to murder the child when he or she was not obedient enough.
Overall,i just want to suggest that both parent,if possible,to spend more time with children or child.
For me, i'll disagree. It doesn't mean that women, as natural care-giver, have to stay at home to take care of the childre. Men are also like women as both are humans. Men can learn to be a care-givers like the women and instead of the men go out to work, women can do that.
Nowadays, alot of jobs wanted prefer women than men because women has more experience. Women also must have the right to have some FREEDOM.
Everybody knows that men is 'The King of the House' so men have to earn money for the family. But sometimes men have lesser experience than woomen. In the other hand, if men were to do all that, surely it would be very tiring and they will not have any relaxation.
So it's not fair for both gender.
Therefore both gender must learn both responsibility to raise a child and to support the family.
Sometimes men loves to cook or just loves to take care of the house more than women and women are better in earning money. Both gender can choose between themself on what they want to do.
But the most important thing is that both men and women have to laer n how to take of of children. Even if both gender are busy doing something else,at least spend some time with their children because if they don't, their children will be lack of parental love and do something horrible in public.
Lenny...
I agree that women are natual caregivers and women should stay at home because of her responsibility for her children of being a wife and mother for her children .Women should stay at home because when women gets pregnant , she is too close to the child and she can feel what the children feels .
When women gets married , the freedom for the women has change to take care of the housework and take care of her children and work than to wonder around with friend like women who haven't married and put their children at childcare center.Some women who have children wants to work , maybe she will have so many problem at work and at home.
I don't think men is care giver because is not men who pregnant, men only help women to get pregnant .Men must go to work to give salary to his wife so that his wife can buy groceries for his children to eat .Work is men responsible .But if want to take care of the children and ask the women to work ,it ok !
For me, women should stay at home and men should work for his family and women and men should take care the children together ...
I totally agree!!!
I agree that women are natural care-givers but that does not mean that they must stay at home everyday to look after children!! That is so unfair!! Well, to me..women are very responsible and they can look after 10 children all by themselves!!! But, if the wife/women do all that… What about the husband/men??! Well, I find that that so unfair!!! Men/husband will get so happy when they thought that they do not need to look after the children anymore!! Some men are really like that… The women can do all that but what about the types of women who thinks about their career??! They will surely go out for work!!
If only the wife stays at home to look after the children, it is a disadvantage for the child.. Here comes the story Father and Son… it is so sad for the child..
To me, I think that men are useless!! NO OFFENCE!! Hey, its true!! See, when men are at work, families are not at their heart!! It is scientifically proven!! So, I disagrees if men are to stay at home to look after childeren!! I don’t even think that they would be looking after the children.. I bet, they would be lazing around at home without getting any work done!!! So I think that they are not natural care-givers…NO OFFENCE!!!
Ennis…Reebik!!!
Every mother cannot be always at home taking care of children as mother have their own speciality of doing their favourable things like working.
A father did not have the experience to take care of the children but he also must take care of their children when they have their free time on saturday , sunday and even hoilday. As mother need rest for taking care of their children.
But if two of the children's both mother and father work when their children have grown , their parents relationship will slowly go down and their will be more quarrel between the both parents or even with their children.
The most important of everything of family relationship is having a maid in their house as most of the children will stick the relationship with the maid then with their parents.
Most people in the world though the father is the breadwinner and the father will ask the mother to quit the job and take care of the children . For me this is fair and ok .
Desmond Ng (2E2)
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