Introduction:
Domestic helpers are people who work for their employer to clean their houses, wash their clothes, look after their children while they work and many others. Domestic helper can come from a foreign country for many reasons, the main reason is because they can earn more money than the jobs they were getting back in their country. They usually use the money they get to educate their children or pay some bills for the family in their own country. They rarely get to visit their family in person, but they do get holidays and they can always talk online. The essay below is going to answer the question ‘the domestic helper is an integral part of a family?’
Local Perspective:
In 2013 there were about 320,000 foreign domestic helpers …show more content…
Ms Derby Sim has identified three rules in handling domestic helpers. First, the parents often scold the helper over minor things in front of their children. The children will not respect others and will become bossy to the helper, family members, classmates and teachers. Second, Parents and the helper have a bad relationship. The children will feel unsafe and confused. They tend to test the boundary of the adults. Third, the domestic helper is given too much power. This will undermine the authority of the parents and the children will not listen to their parents. This creates confusion in role …show more content…
At first you might be shy and ignore them a bit, your child might just speak to her as little as possible because he is shy. He would only answer the questions like what you want to eat. On the other hand there is a possibility that the child would be excited and basically making them like a friend. Then they get closer and closer and they start to treat them like family. Sometime a child spend so much time with a domestic helper that they would consider that they know the domestic helper more than their own parents.
Some parent have no problem with this because this also means that they can know each other and treat them like family, but some parent will take this in another way, and fire the domestic helper because they get upset. I think the the domestic helper should be considered as family because you took them in and they could even be working for you for year. I would basically relate it to the employer's company he works for, sometime you work so hard for that company for so long they would call you and your colleagues as part of the companies
Domestic helpers are people who work for their employer to clean their houses, wash their clothes, look after their children while they work and many others. Domestic helper can come from a foreign country for many reasons, the main reason is because they can earn more money than the jobs they were getting back in their country. They usually use the money they get to educate their children or pay some bills for the family in their own country. They rarely get to visit their family in person, but they do get holidays and they can always talk online. The essay below is going to answer the question ‘the domestic helper is an integral part of a family?’
Local Perspective:
In 2013 there were about 320,000 foreign domestic helpers …show more content…
Ms Derby Sim has identified three rules in handling domestic helpers. First, the parents often scold the helper over minor things in front of their children. The children will not respect others and will become bossy to the helper, family members, classmates and teachers. Second, Parents and the helper have a bad relationship. The children will feel unsafe and confused. They tend to test the boundary of the adults. Third, the domestic helper is given too much power. This will undermine the authority of the parents and the children will not listen to their parents. This creates confusion in role …show more content…
At first you might be shy and ignore them a bit, your child might just speak to her as little as possible because he is shy. He would only answer the questions like what you want to eat. On the other hand there is a possibility that the child would be excited and basically making them like a friend. Then they get closer and closer and they start to treat them like family. Sometime a child spend so much time with a domestic helper that they would consider that they know the domestic helper more than their own parents.
Some parent have no problem with this because this also means that they can know each other and treat them like family, but some parent will take this in another way, and fire the domestic helper because they get upset. I think the the domestic helper should be considered as family because you took them in and they could even be working for you for year. I would basically relate it to the employer's company he works for, sometime you work so hard for that company for so long they would call you and your colleagues as part of the companies