Finally, we decided to hire a maid and bring Jason home when he was about 1 year old.
We got a Philipino maid and requested my parents to come to Spore to supervise the maid during the first few months. My parents have to cut short their trip in Melbourne to come to Singapore.
The maid was Merle and she took care of Jason for about 2 years before she went home due to the death of her mother. Merle was a very young girl and below 20 years old then; inexperienced too but I cannot remember why we chose her then.
My parents did a good job training Merle and they maintained a good relationship after 2 months of guidance by my parents.
Apparently, Jason was quite naughty and he would beat Merle on her back when he played truant. My mother told me that Merle dare not report him to me as I was very bad temper and she was concerned that I may beat Jason.
That's very nice of her indeed!
Initially, Merle slept with Jason in the second room with the air-con on during the night. We have a remote monitor and realised that Merle slept like a pig and not sensitive to Jason's crying etc.... So we brought Jason to sleep with us instead.
We made every effort to spend time with Jason once we were home; eg feed him and play with him. This was to ensure that Jason does not stick to the maid like glue...ha..ha..ha...
In fact, we managed to get Jason into the nearby Kinderland as we do not want him to be with the maid for 8 - 10 hours during the day while we were at work.
Also, we heard that Kinderland would be in a better position to train or teach Jason to bathe himself, change his clothing etc.... and to socialise with the other children too. In fact, he met his best friend, Ryan Tay, there.
More to come....stay tune!
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