Tag Archives: Parents

This clause came into the spotlight when a 22 year old Singaporean student successfully sued his father over the funding of his overseas university education. In this case, the Singaporean student's University is in Canada, and his father is a 60 year old sole shareholder of a logistics company and director of various other companies.

A Singaporean man's post have gone viral, in reminding everyone that their role models need not be a celebrity, an athlete or some rich movie superstars. Instead, their role models can be closer to home and even closer to heart. That role model he was talking about is his own father, who just happened to be a man who works as a cleaner.

In a sign of times, parents have got in the act, complaining that the PSLE question in a mathematics paper was tricky and disturbing. One online forum writer even claimed that he had written to a school principal to give "feedback to the Ministry of Education (MOE)" Mr Bhajan Singh, a 70-year-old ex-principal previously involved in the setting of examination papers, said parents should have faith in Singapore's education system instead of throwing a "tantrum".

A mother is raising funds for her son's cancer and autism treatment. They are foreigners living in Singapore and thus are not entitled to medical subsidies. Help them if you can!

Will we have enough for our own retirement if CPF lowers the prerequisite for us to make more transfers to our parents/grandparents?

While many other parents who are nervous about their children's performance, I have to deal with a different kind of anxiety because of the school inefficiency. My son has a ADHD condition and the school has not been very efficient in getting the approvals in time with no assurance except a call last Friday (after calls to MOE) with a non-committal of "we submitted the application". Why then does it take so long to be approved when the Dr's report was already given since April? Till now, no response from the Principal.

To me personally, army is still ok but police or SCDF is low class jobs done by "some people" only. I tried to convince my bf because he has a degree why should he do that kind of job. But all those pleas fell on death ears. I feel like i need to save my parents face too. And with that kind of manual labor job i can forget about having a posh wedding.

A netizen is appealing for witnesses to her father's motorcycle accident at the junction between Jln Tenaga and Kaki Bukit Ave 1. Her mother is still in ICU.

Our contributor believes more financial assistance should be given to families in light of rising kindergarten fees so as to also encourage them to have more children.

An angry mother complained about a childcare at Sengkang/Buangkok that overcharge parents for kids' meals, excursions and everything else! The childcare claimed the $22 meal was because it was an "international buffet". What, a buffet consisting of nuggets, fishballs, chicken wings and beehoon?