Thursday, August 11, 2005
Family Versus Work?
A Family That Prays Together Stays Together!
Chewing Gum is Really Grose; Chewing Gum I Hate The Most!
Have you as in YOU realise that through Singapore's Labour, Parents spend less time with their family? I am hear today to bring about my point or discussion about this issue or crisis which Singaporeans are facing nowadays.
The first thing that comes to an average Singaprean's mind every morning is, work today added with a sigh. Do you really think that this should be the mentality of a Sinaporean? Certainly not. However are the priorities of not wanting to go to work based on laziness or family? From my point of view, I feel that it is based on pure laziness. Do you parents out there want a closer relationship with ur children?
The mentality of Singaporeans nowadays are just work, work, work! Parents should spend at least a minimal time of 3 to 4 hours each day with quality family bonding. It comes to my attention that the majority of Singaporeans spend an average of less than 1 hour of QUALITY family bonding. In a 24 hour cycle, an average of 10 hours is allocated to sleeping and about 9 hours for work. So what happens to the other 5 hours? Could you put a bit of your time for pure family bonding meaning turning off your office handphone and bringing your family to places such as the parks to play together, or even go cycling as it kills two birds with one stone; keeping heathy and fit, and family bonding? With this in action, you could probably be someone who can make the world a better place. With family bonding, your child could even grow more open to you and not hide secrets such as giving in to peer pressure by falling under the temptation of smoking. How about taking the first step into this process and, thus, you could live a happier life.
From the governments point of view, I feel that it should implement less working time for Singaporeans yet having the same monthly salary. This will definitely result in a better future for not just the country but its people. This prevents attacks from the people about the social welfare and family life bonding of Singapore. With this in mind, a family can definitely strive to spend more time with each other as with this bonding, divorce cases would probably deteriorate.
So lastly, what can you do to aid in family bonding. As a child, you could beg your parents to bring you to places where not only you can enjoy but for the whole family. Such examples include theme parks and cinemas but if you are on a budget yet want to bond with your family, the beach is a good place as you can all either have a picnic or go fish in the sea. These are what many people do during family bonding. However for my case, since i am in a youth group in church(not totally), I see how Catholic families spend their saturdays. They spend it by joining the Family Life Society of the Church. In this society, one can experience god and your family at the same time thus making church your little home like Mary, Joseph and Jesus did. This is because a family that prays together stays together! So to conclude, there are disadvantages resulting in or will result through family bonding however, I do not want to touch on that topic. By the way the advantages of family bonding over rules the disadvantages and as a result I strongly support Family Bonding. If possible, make it for the OLPS Family Camp this year in November as this is an experience worth experiencing!