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Home » News from Thailand » More and more daycare centers in Bangkok for parents from Isaan
Now that more and more day care centers are being opened in Bangkok, set up by the Foundation for Slum Child Care, workers from Isaan no longer have to leave their children with relatives.
Many parents from Isaan move from the countryside to Bangkok because it is easier for them to find work there. Their children are often forced to stay behind with grandparents or other relatives. But they now have the option of taking the offspring to the capital and placing them in daycare centers while they work.
In Bangkok and neighboring provinces there are now 68 daycare centers that care for more than 3.000 children. These centers were set up by the Foundation for Slum Child Care in collaboration with local neighbourhoods. The foundation was established in 1981 by well-known social worker, later the late Princess Galyani Vadhana became its patroness.
Source: Bangkok Post
Given the long working days of the people in Thailand, I wonder to what extent this is an improvement.
Children who live with their grandparents are certainly not unhappy.
Of course, they undoubtedly miss their parents sometimes, but spending half a day at a nursery, eating for an hour, playing with mom and dad for an hour and then sleeping, doesn't seem ideal to me either.
Apart from that, the father or mother often also travels alone to Bangkok.
It may help to take a look at the organization's website http://www.fscc.or.th/eng/children.html
So there are also cases where the families are not always at peace and those children are helped anyway. In addition, there is also a threshold for the parents and it seems to me that in their circumstances they actually want the best for their child and daily contact is always better than a week every year.
Because of the shelter, it is also immediately visible if the parents (s) still drop a few stitches and at least someone can be addressed about it.
agree, there is no mention of the costs anywhere. Parents already have to find accommodation here with the additional costs. In the West we believe that children should stay with their parents and grow up there, without any substantiation for this. In other cultures it is quite normal for children to be taken care of by family without any problem. In the Western world, children are taken in by strangers because family does not feel like it or lives too far away. Parents then work to pay for childcare.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/201709/when-grandparents-raise-their-grandchildren
https://prezi.com/m_opymgk3rhv/the-effects-on-children-when-growing-up-with-grandparents/
In itself a good development because it is of course neither normal nor desirable for children to be raised by others than their parents unless absolutely impossible. A Thai doctor warned last year that the generation raised by grandparents is a lost generation in several respects. The differences between grandparents and grandchildren in many areas (modernity, affinity with contemporary technology, change in norms and values, physical condition) are often significant, in addition to the large differences between urban and rural areas in Thailand. And the role of a father and mother is really different from the role of a grandfather and mother. In my own environment with Thais from the countryside, I see many parenting problems and 'angry' / 'dissatisfied' children when they come on holiday to their parents in Bangkok.
What I and my wife also see is that many young Thai couples are very easy-going in our eyes and do not want to (but really can) bear responsibility for the children they have sometimes fathered at a young age. People prefer a lifestyle without children (going out, going to bed late, partying, alcohol) while buying off the responsibility of raising their own children. For the same amounts, you can also raise the child yourself. My wife gets even angrier than I do about this.
The family's son also goes to a daycare center in Bangkok during the week, because both parents work.
The nursery is in our street. That is why mother and son stay with us all week. She then leaves for work (Novotel) at 0500 and returns around 1900. We then take him to the nursery around 0900 and around 1600 we pick him up.
He spends the whole day together with 10-15 children of about the same age.
The daycare costs 2200 Baht per month, lunch included.
I think they are much better off with the grandparents in the village in the isaan .
Here they can play after school, run, cycle, play football, etc. and live a relaxed life.
In addition, despite the good intentions with an amount of 2200 per month, money will have to be added.
daycare 1 month including lunch 2200 baht, x 10 children = 22000 baht
10 children a 30 meals = 300 a 30 baht = 9000 baht 9000 baht
rent property min 10000 baht
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3000 baht
In addition, there is electricity and water and also the salary of the supervisors for the children?????
That is why money is needed.
or you increase the scale of, for example, 40 children, then it can work out well, but you have to enlarge the building, which is normally excellent in a few classrooms of a university where all facilities are also available.
regards Pete
In my response, I just wanted to let the reader know how much a daycare costs for some of our family members. Just to give readers an idea.
1. By the way, parents are not from the Isaan and grandparents are not there either.
2. 2200 Baht is what is asked for the whole month and that comes to +/- 100 Baht per day. because in the WE he is not there. Pampers and spare clothes to provide yourself.
3. Where do you get that rent of at least 10 000 Baht. I'm not 100 percent sure now, but I think that's locally owned by the organization. There is not only a daycare, but also a daycare for the elderly. No idea what the latter costs per day. You can rent such a local for 5000 Baht, I estimate.
4. Ultimately, all that matters to parents is how much it costs them.
How that organization gets that money, whether it is enough or not, how they pay their staff, whether they receive support or not, whether they have to expand or not… of no concern to the parents
It is also not my job (and my habit) to make someone else's bill…..
It has been there for years, so it will also work in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prateep_Ungsongtham_Hata
I think Khru Prateep comes off a bit rough with the reference 'a well-known social worker'. She was a real heroine and role model when I was still living in Bangkok!
Thank you for this info and it just goes to show that help will come unless you get involved with a questionable person who sells his phone company to Singapore and then for a minimal share value which leaves the state missing out on a lot of tax.
If you also have the guts to set up a party that is along the lines of Thai loving Thai, then shoot me to pieces if that is covered with the cloak of love.
Too bad that 500 baht does more than wonder where it comes from.
That was the past and in 2019 the same post-election nagging will start again.
Don't fully understand the article unless it is to indicate that Bangkok is a backward area as far as childcare is concerned. As an expert, because I am a father in the Isaan, I can report that in many cities and also many large and small villages, government or private childcare facilities are offered for children. And for a similar rate around 2000 baht. And yes I come across this everywhere in the Isaan so hence my surprised reaction whether they sometimes had no childcare in Bangkok.