Are you talking about your parent ? Or are you refering to
yourself as a parent ?
The reason why we hang on to this idea is either, out of fear (
of our old age years).. or to control their children.
You have to know where's the parent stand on this .
Now,
Children are being used as crutches because old parents are
handicapped. Financially, physically and emotionally.
Financially, if we can be self-sufficient.. we can be
independent.
Physically, if we stay healthy and live active, we don't need
our children as crutches. If we are physically handicapped, we need
to rely on professional care, there's really nothing much our kids
can do for us.
Emotionally, parents just need to let go. We cannot control them
forever, they have their own life to live. We need to have our own
social life and not rely on our kids to keep us company .
Our children are living in a very stressful world, they don't
even have time for themselves and their immediate family, how can
we expect them to have time for us ?
what's the point of living so close to them ? When they are busy
doing their stuff.. are we going to just sit around and wait to die
?
So being independent in every aspect is important to attaining
retirement freedom.
Govt should be building senior active living villages.. nearby a
good hospital with good GERIATRIC care services..
Nearby a nice park where old people can socialise and do their
daily exercise.
Nearby convenient healthy grocery stores and shopping for
elderly stuffs.
Do I need to live near my kids ? I don;t and I don't want to. My
able bodied offsprings can come and visit me.
That's essentially how other countries have their senior
independent/assisted living all set up.
Our government is so good at constructing shiny buildings..
surely they are also capable of building a WORLD CLASS senior
living resort, yes ?
jojo I pity your parents they bring you up so many years but you
feel no need care for them when they old n sick. if they lucky got
money well off not sick then heng la. you only think about your own
situation and imagine every body also like that. but i tell you it
is not the case. there are many parent that work hard slog until
going to die take 3 jobs just to make sure their children have food
to eat, can go to school etc. because of that when they grow old
they have no savings and health is poor because they have had hard
life. so you are saying their children should just bochup them?
independent? lead their own life? haiz
