Toddler home alone!! New kind of phenomena of this age.....

As much as I sympathies reading about this Toddler (being) home alone after family maid ran away, I can't help recalling the times of the old, when mothers, or at least other family members are still at home for their children, not child-minders, REAL close blood-relatives.

You'll have no problems of these kinds, but then again, the modernist would claim that there are other problems associated during those olden times. Yet, there's more problem as a result of both family leaders having had to earn their monies to continue supporting a basic form of living expenses. Problems such as kids not being under a good watchful eyes, turning into tyrant under peer pressure, adopting a perverted sense of justice and perspective and the lots.

Parents, at least one of them should be at home. If the mother feels like going out to earn monies, being liberalised and all, then why don't the husbands mind their homes and children. Even though that is not normally prescribed, at least there'll be a decent watchfull and loving figure at home, all the times.

As a muslim, I rather have mothers doing their best, that is raising their children to be the best individual, in future! Not to slog and to earn a living to aid the meagre sum taken home by the husbands. They have to live within their means, and this is where GOOD Government could help in ensuring basic neccessities for all could be made as affordable as possible, including housing and food-bills for all!

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The Star Online > Nation

Thursday October 13, 2005

Toddler home alone after family maid ran away

By WANI MUTHIAH

KLANG: A one-year-old toddler was left crawling about in the garden under the blistering sun for almost two hours on Tuesday after the family's Indonesian maid ran away.

A neighbour spotted Ammar Yazid Zafri about 3.40pm in the compound of the double-storey terrace house in Taman Sungai Kapar Indah and took the dehydrated boy indoors.

Azwin feeding her son Ammar Yazid Zafri, who appears shaken after the experience, while Yuhairie looks on Wednesday.

The boy’s father lawyer Yuhairie Pandak Yusof said the 30-year-old maid Kusnaini had locked the front door but left the gate open.

“I shudder to imagine what would have happened if my boy had fallen into the big drain in front of my house, or wandered onto the main road,” said Yuhairie.

He said a couple of the neighbours’ maids told his wife Azwin Fairuz Aji Dan that they had seen Kusnaini leaving the house about 2pm. Yuhairie and Azwin, a teacher, were at work then.

Yuhairie said the boy appeared traumatised by the experience and clung on to his mother tightly from the time she picked him up from the neighbour’s house that day.

“My son is still in shock. It pains my wife and me to see him like this,” he added.

Yuhairie has lodged a police report at the Kapar police station and cancelled the maid’s work permit.

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