I'm not selling anything here, just a feedback on the change in my MIL. And any of you might wanna consider this programme for your parents.

The change is apparent with my MIL who was (back in June) still suffering from very strained relationships with her hubby and son.

How we got to know of this programme:

DH and I were sending DS1 to wushu and we met up my JC friend for lunch, while DS1 was at wushu. Through the conversation, we got to know that she was newly employed by Yah 快乐学堂 http://www.yah.org.sg as a receptionist. She started telling us that this 快乐学堂 is funded by the government to set up courses, targeted at the older citizens at a much subsidised fee. There is no age limit for the courses.

I'm into my 8th year marriage and things are still progressing upwards.  We try to make ourselves more interesting for the other person. DH is a highly left brained person, so he's into logic, figures, finance. For me, I'm a central brained, so I'm alot more 'colourful' and adventurous type. Though we are very different, we have very common similarities - we dun like idle talking (talking for the sake of talking, I think generally men dun like women to idle-talk), family-committed, independent, hates crowded places etc etc.

We find common topics to talk about - our marriage, our progression in life/career/investments, buddhism, fortune-telling, children, where our retirement place will be in (and all sorts of things that we love to discuss). You will need to know which topics both of you are comfortable to talk about.

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My MIL was a full-time nanny of over 20 years exp.
I don't know the current market rate but I know she used to charge between S$400-S$700 depending on whether the child stays overnight with the nanny or only during daytime.

Some parents like to make it a daily affair by letting the child sleep in their own house. So, parents usually bring the child to the nanny's in the morning and pick them up around 7pm.

Some will let the child stay with nanny overnight during the weekdays and pick him/her on Friday nights.