The Parents' Assistants or The Assistant Parent

There is also the extended family scenario; the Asian and the indigenous people group; their society model includes immediate family as well as the extended family, i.e. grandparents; uncles and aunties; cousins etc of whom some play a major part in the raising of children.

In Asia; (i.e. China, Philippines, Thailand, Korea etc), home help are quite common, this could be in the form of members of the extended family – grandparents, unmarried aunties or paid domestic helpers (house maids).  This means parents will be busy working to make money to pay for these kinds of help at home!  (Even grandparents needed to be paid pocket money, so why not get them to look after the kids as well?  Ha ha.)

I guess us Asians are more of the ‘face’ culture.  We were bought up with the understanding that our parents will not shame us and therefore we do not bring shame to the family; whereas, other culture are a bit more casual about these sort of thinking.  Not only do we ‘not to’ bring shame to the family, we are supposed to bring ‘face’ to the family – the positive stuff – so children are to do better than their parents.