Our Voice is heard partially!

A voice from a mother of 2

Dear Mr Lee

The announcement on the recent rally is indeed a good news for most of the young parents and parents to be... As we seeing government is willing to give a helping hand to us, as a mother of 2 I actually agree on the direction of our government who wanted to increase the birth rate of singapore, but there are struggle for many people here as having more than 1 kid mean scarifying lifestyle and increasing of expenses. My younger girl is turning 4 months old soon, I just received a letter from my 3 years old son's school there will be a increase in school fee starting from 2009. As per mention on your rally there are plan to increase the subsidy to help us bringing up our children, we hope that you will look into helping on Kindergarten too, as all along the help is only grant to childcare but not those kindergarten like my son is attending. I didn't choose to let him attending childcare as he is taken care by his grandparents and I believe there should have a balance in study and family... Therefore we really hope that government will extend the helping hand to small kindergarten like what my son is attending.

When we only have 1 kid, we don't see the necessity of owning a car, as the public transport here is well developed and bring 1 out with 2 adults is not so tedious, no complain for us going to work during weekday too, but recently after the arrival of the new comer we find it rather difficult to move around without feeling the frustration especially when raining. So we finally come to the conclusion that owning a car might be a need to us. We are looking at weekend car which is designed for family, but to our surprise the weekend car only start from 3 pm on Saturday... Which mean our family time going outdoor can only start after that. According to people this system come out when most of the company is having 5 and half days work, but review from current trend most of the company, even government is having 5 days work so that we will have more time for the family. So isn't it true that the weekend car timing should be review too? I really hope that government will look into it. Thanks and best regards from a mother of 2...