Posted on 07/19/2024 2:29:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Local actress Ya Hui has been cast as a single mum with an eight-year-old son in upcoming Mediacorp drama Uniquely Ours, despite not having kids of her own.
In a recent interview with 8World, the 37-year-old revealed that she used her experience as an aunt and learnt from her friends who are mums to play Lin Minchen.
"It's really hard to be a modern mother. You can't scold your kids too harshly and have to consider their feelings and worry about mental trauma," she said.
In contrast, she suggested that mums in the past didn't have the luxury of "thinking so much", and would scold their kids if they didn't do well in exams, and spanked them if they didn't do their homework.
Corporal punishment is a divisive issue among local parents, including celebs — with some opposed to it and others regretting hitting their kids in the past.
Ya Hui, however, said: "If the child still doesn't behave after you've told them something many times, you have to spank them.
"I think children who are spanked will be better-behaved, probably because I was also spanked when I was a child."
Ya Hui revealed herself to be a strict aunt to her brother's children, revealing she would previously spank her nephew — just a "pat" on his hand, she clarified — and then reason with him seriously.
"If my brother's children do something wrong or are disobedient, I will speak up. I'm not the gentle type, I don't have that much patience," she said.
In the drama, Minchen works part-time in a fruit stall after losing her office job due to her ex-husband's gambling and drug troubles.
She moves with her son into a rental flat with a live-in landlord Zhao Ziyao (Li Nanxing). As a strict mum herself, she becomes a stepmother figure for his kids Ruiyang (Zhai Siming) and Ruixing, disciplining them after seeing how lax their father is with them.
Uniquely Ours, which also stars Ye Jiayun, Desmond Ng, Phyllis Quek, Pan Lingling, Roy Li and Richard Low, is set to premiere on Dec 23. It will air Mondays to Fridays at 9pm on Channel 8 and be available to stream on Mewatch.
That’s why you start from the beginning. The voice!
My first grandson was/is that way. He is very busy, but the girls have always come first. They matured well under both parents.
I’m so proud of him/them.
My parents beat their kids. We do not miss them.
I was paddled in class, over the teachers lap in 1st grade for eating my best friends cookie. More embarrassing than hurting.
Some spanking is necessary. My grandmother and father went way overboard. When I was 13 and was becoming an an athlete I swore the next time my father beat me I wouldn’t make a peep. When it happened, with monster welts on my legs, I looked him in the eye and asked “Is that all you got?” He never touched me again. Crazy enough, we got along great after that. I think he was truly sorry.
I always thought standing in corner effective
Is Ya Hui related to Huac Tua?
Our oldest was so well behaved that he rarely needed any punishment.
The youngest, however, was very adventurous and stronger-willed than I was.
I never spanked him, because I was half afraid that if I did, I might not be able to stop.
I have been reading about Corporal Punishment for decades.
When will he finally be promoted to Sergeant?
I remember seeing ads from the 50’s where husbands spanked their wives. I wonder if the wives behaved better.
Regarding a child, the Bible is very clear, and Dr. Benjamin Spock's theory schown to be futile for instaling disciple into a child's life.
Proverbs 10:13 (AV):It is because of ignoring ages-old well-defined and proven wisdom that we have successive generations of fools applying Spock's doctrine of eliminating corporal chastening of children, denominations preaching this non-Biblical doctrines from the pulpit, undisciplined college professors teaching it from lecterns to rebellious-minded students, and thus a progressive incorrigible "wokeness" controlling our culture and its supportive media.
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 23:13,14 (AV)
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs 29:15 (AV):
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
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When I was a kid attending St. Bernard’s Catholic School, the Nuns would proverbially “preach Heaven to you and beat the hell out of you”. A long time ago.
I was beat with a switch off the tree by my dad when I was 14, but I deserved it. My brother and I took my mom’s car out at 2 am when our parents were asleep. The cops arrested us at 4 am for grand theft auto, out after curfew, joyriding in a residential area, and driving without a license. I was a straight A student and it’s the only time I ever got in trouble with the law, but at least I got to walk on the wild side once, lol.
All 4 of us kids got spanked-—
OR THE DREADED “SNAP BEHIND THE EAR” from the farm manager.
We got punished for NOT doing chores or for doing them wrong.
ALL 4 of us spent our adult days as SELF-EMPLOYED people.
One had over 60 EMPLOYEES-—with only a HS education.
Another had about 8-10 employees with only one semester of college.
Another had 1 employee-—but not 100% of the time. ONLY HS education.
I worked alone doing bookkeeping -—HS Plus night school in accounting classes.
I AM POSITIVE SPANKING DID NOT HARM US.
I know I was. 😆
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There was a lot less divorce back then . . .
Today’s unspanked children are running wild or drugged rather than disciplined. When other means don’t work, spanking will. Its unpleasant, but it’s for their own good.
Bingo. The death stare works well, too. (lol)
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