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.
A switch threat always worked on me.
Let the kids be the boss of the home.
What could go wrong.
I think a firm hand (with love) when they are VERY young, prevents any need to when they are older. IF and it’s a big if you are not a hypocrite and constantly tell your kids not to do something you are currently doing.
(like while smoking a cigarette, tell them constantly never do this trash)
You have to live what you preach for kids, because they see it all and take it in, not just what you say.
To kids today a Switch is some kind of video game.
Psychological warfare works better.
Make a threat and keep it. It’s when you give in that kids rule you.
Spare the rod and you’ll spoil the child.
Well said.
Lots.
“’I Think Kids Who Are Spanked Will Be Better-Behaved’: Strict Aunt Ya Hui Shares Views on Corporal Punishment”
That’s OBVIOUS, but it should be noted that drugging your kids also works.
That is essential. I've seen too many parents warn the kid over and over then do nothing.
I used to tell my son; "I'm going to count to one". That always worked.
I was spanked exactly once in my life when I scared my Dad in the middle of the night while he was getting a midnight snack. I never did it again, and looking back on the incident as an adult, I absolutely deserved it.
Yahooey? Ouch.
Spanking- yes; beating- no
Did you deliberately scare him, or just wander downstairs?
Deliberately. It was more of a “We knew he was eating all of the Funny Bones” but he denied it, so I caught him in the act one night and said “Caught you.” Scared the hell out of him.
I was paddled in school in the 8th grade for lying.
As I recall, spankings were for the five and under crowd. Usually to make a point I got the crap kicked out of me up to the early teens but I don’t recall feeling I got hit more than anybody else I knew. And to be honest when I think back on things I did I feel I can legitimately be called one hell of a little bastard
As for my kid, I never hit him once. No need to., my voice has always been enough. If I speak forcefully the way my father used to the poor kid looks like he’s gonna faint.
OMG, you are so right.
One dark night 'bout half past three I saw an owl up in a tree He looked down out and yowled at me "Who's Yehoodi?"
G-man Hoover's getting moody Got his men on double duty Trying to find out who's Yehoodi (who's Yehoodi?)
Who's Yehoodi, who's Yehoodi? The little man who wasn't there Said he heard him on the air No one seems to know from where But who's Yehoodi?
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Who's Yehoodi, who's Yehoodi? One dark night 'bout half past three Saw an owl up in a tree And he looked down out and yowled at me "Who's Yehoodi?"
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