Check out this toilet at the Hong Kong airport. There is a little baby seat so that you can place your baby there while you go about with whatever you need to do in the loo.
For those who haven't got kids,.... I guess you don't realise that when poor mummy is out alone with say her 6 month old tot without a stroller (using a carrier instead which I often did), you pretty much have to just HOLD IT ALL IN till you get home!!!
I have seen this in Japan as well..... How I wish Singapore would get more child-friendly like this.
Highlights on how Singapore is NOT child-friendly:
- No baby seats in toilet as shown in pic above
- There are stairs everywhere going into shopping centres. It may be a little flight of 5 steps but I still have to carry the freakin' pram up and down those same 5 steps!!!
- Many toilets don't have changing tables. Some buildings that do, ONLY have them in the ladies toilets!!!! What if I am out with Paul and it is NOT MY TURN!!!!
- Not many nursing rooms around.
I go out with the kids alone quite a lot, so this child-UNfriendliness is quite apparent to me.
Ok,.... to be fair, Singapore is great for kids in lots of other ways:
- Safe
- Clean
- Good education (debatable to be too stressful)
- Good health care
- Most restaurants have high-chairs
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that is so cool! Singapore should definitely have some of these seats. The other day I saw an ang mor woman with a baby and a toddler in a supermarket trolley that she wheeled into the handicap toilet!! I think she put the baby IN the trolley while she peed.
What a good idea... Although I guess the supermarket had to be pretty nearby otherwise you'd be wheeling the trolley all over the shopping centre!
Best I have done was to put baby on lap while peeing but that ain't gonna work in toilets that are so dirty that you can only "hover"!!!
Ok, too much detail!!!
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