| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Foreword; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Author, the Researcher and the Illustrator; The Book Editing Committee; About Singapore Children's Society; A Note on the Use of Local Languages; Chapter 1 Changing Times, Changing Childhoods; Chapter 2 Here Comes the Baby: Pregnancy, Birth Customs and Baby Celebrations; The Babies Just Kept Coming; Family Planning; More Babies Needed; Naming the Newborn; Confinement and Recuperation; Protecting the Baby; Celebrations; We Want Them but Can't Have Them; The Start of A journey; Endnotes |
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Chapter 3 Bringing up Children: Childcare and Home LifeTaking Care of One's Own; Living with Grandparents -- Ah Gong Ah Ma'; Of Dialects and Mother Tongues; From Amahs to Maids; Babysitters; From Creches to Child Care Centres; Treatment of Boys and Girls; Rotan or Naughty Corner?; Growing Up Through the Years; Endnotes; Chapter 4 From Marbles to Media Gaming: Play, Pleasure and Leisure; Around the Neighbourhood; The Worlds of Amusement; Entertainment for Everyone; Eat. Drink and be Merry; Comic Relief; From Outdoors to Indoors; Of Games and Television Shows; Entering the New Millennium |
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Worlds of Their OwnEndnotes; Chapter 5 Of ABCs and 123s: How Singapore Children Studied and Learned; Getting a Headstart; The Politics of Education; Changes in the Education System; Chinese School Reform; I Not Stupid; Different Paths; Special Education Schools; Madrasahs; Vocational Training. Sports and Arts Education; Home-Schooling; Surviving the Pressure Cooker?; Fun Times in School?; Achieving Balance -Is It Possible?; Endnotes; Chapter 6 From Kayak to Clinic: Sixty Years of Children's Health; lmmunising Against Infectious Diseases; Feeding the Children; Milk for Children; Worms! |
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Home is Where the Cure Is. or Is It?Tipping the Scales; Health in School; Of Teething Problems and Si Bak Cow8; Anxious Hearts. Troubled Minds; Bottom of the Heap No More; Endnotes; Chapter 7 In their Best Interest: From Welfare to Well-being; Child Welfare in Post-War Singapore; Residential Care; Establishing the Legal Framework; Youngsters on the Fringe; Beyond Control?; Curbing Child Abuse; Matters of the Heart and Mind; Reaching Out to Children; Connecting at School; In Their Best Interest; Endnotes; Final Thoughts: Looking to the Future; Endnotes; Glossary; Bibliography |
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List of IntervieweesIllustration Credits; Index |
| Summary |
The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of children in Singapore. This book explores this transformation through anecdotes and memories through interviews with individuals hailing from different races and age groups, together with related archived materials from different sources. The components of childhood - birth, home, play, school, health and welfare - are revisited so as to provide useful insights about the past to young readers and at the same time serve as a nostalgic read for older readers. Written i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-225) and index |
| Subject |
Children -- Singapore -- Social conditions
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Children -- Singapore -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Children -- Social conditions
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Singapore
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789814390781 |
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981439078X |
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