Domestic helpers -- a blessing for child’s psychological growth?
A phenomenon is occurred in Hong Kong that people tend to hire domestic helpers to relieve parents’ workload on taking care their children (Tam, 2001). Under this environment, parents devoted fewer time on take caring the children, whereas the helpers might turned out to become the primary caregiver of the children in some extreme cases. I am interested about its consequences to children’s growth and I would share some ideas about that.
Actually, my family had hired domestic helpers after I was born. For the first two months, my parents nurtured me and could not persist finally as they underestimated the workload of taking care of me, especially when I often cried during midnight, …show more content…
In consequences, they hired a domestic helper to assist them. Throughout several years, my father and mother working during the daytime and play with me when they are spared. After I graduated from the kinder-garden, my mother became a housewife and took care of me by herself without the aid of domestic helpers. Tracing on how my parents nurture me, it is definitely beneficial to my growth.
Throughout the infant stage, taking care kids by domestic helper is a blessing to children's psychological growth probably. Infants develop various attachment patterns, which linked with their first caregivers emotionally as stated by Ainsworth and Bowlby (1991), while the primary caregivers normally refer to their parents. From my points of view, domestic helpers contributes to the infants’ attachment pattern for their parents. According to the research conducted by Brenning (2012), Most of the parents have negative impacts in taking care of the infants. The depressing experience mainly derived from the burden of taking care kids like feeding them and changing diapers. My parents also experienced the workload and they unintentionally blamed me even I …show more content…
One of the famous psychological development stages theory advocated by Erik Erikson (1963), has stated that the virtue of purpose and competence of a person should be developed in the play age stage and the school age stage (Carole & Carol, 2012). One of the research conducted by Groves (2012) noted that parents and children in family would probably be lazier as they would seek help from their domestic helper rather than doing by themselves. For instance, they would request the domestic helper to wash the dishes after dinner instead of doing it by themselves. Under this circumstances, it would be difficult for children to be responsible and productive as they might intentionally rely on the domestic helpers to finish the work instead. And therefore, they would be less motivated to understand on how the daily activities should be performed by themselves. In my own experience, my family refused to hire any domestic helper when I am in primary school and I was required to do the housework. Throughout the work, I understand how to take care myself even my parents left. I though the act of not to hire any helper fostered me to become self-independent and it turns out to become a positive outcome during my post-infant
A phenomenon is occurred in Hong Kong that people tend to hire domestic helpers to relieve parents’ workload on taking care their children (Tam, 2001). Under this environment, parents devoted fewer time on take caring the children, whereas the helpers might turned out to become the primary caregiver of the children in some extreme cases. I am interested about its consequences to children’s growth and I would share some ideas about that.
Actually, my family had hired domestic helpers after I was born. For the first two months, my parents nurtured me and could not persist finally as they underestimated the workload of taking care of me, especially when I often cried during midnight, …show more content…
In consequences, they hired a domestic helper to assist them. Throughout several years, my father and mother working during the daytime and play with me when they are spared. After I graduated from the kinder-garden, my mother became a housewife and took care of me by herself without the aid of domestic helpers. Tracing on how my parents nurture me, it is definitely beneficial to my growth.
Throughout the infant stage, taking care kids by domestic helper is a blessing to children's psychological growth probably. Infants develop various attachment patterns, which linked with their first caregivers emotionally as stated by Ainsworth and Bowlby (1991), while the primary caregivers normally refer to their parents. From my points of view, domestic helpers contributes to the infants’ attachment pattern for their parents. According to the research conducted by Brenning (2012), Most of the parents have negative impacts in taking care of the infants. The depressing experience mainly derived from the burden of taking care kids like feeding them and changing diapers. My parents also experienced the workload and they unintentionally blamed me even I …show more content…
One of the famous psychological development stages theory advocated by Erik Erikson (1963), has stated that the virtue of purpose and competence of a person should be developed in the play age stage and the school age stage (Carole & Carol, 2012). One of the research conducted by Groves (2012) noted that parents and children in family would probably be lazier as they would seek help from their domestic helper rather than doing by themselves. For instance, they would request the domestic helper to wash the dishes after dinner instead of doing it by themselves. Under this circumstances, it would be difficult for children to be responsible and productive as they might intentionally rely on the domestic helpers to finish the work instead. And therefore, they would be less motivated to understand on how the daily activities should be performed by themselves. In my own experience, my family refused to hire any domestic helper when I am in primary school and I was required to do the housework. Throughout the work, I understand how to take care myself even my parents left. I though the act of not to hire any helper fostered me to become self-independent and it turns out to become a positive outcome during my post-infant