One of the best things about living in Indonesia is the ready access to helpers. If you get the right ones, they will be worth their weight in gold. And in our case with Ita and Bangun (left-right), that proves to be the case.
You could argue on and on about the details on whether it’s a good idea to have someone else other than the parents take care/bring up the children–but as someone who’s been through it? The extra help is worth it.
Heard “it takes a whole village to raise children?” Yeah, I agree with that statement. One of my friends who have passed once said to my brother, “it’s less about helping raise the children and more about keeping the peace between the husband and wife.”
Wife been taking care of the kids the whole day. Husband been out and about navigating traffic to get to work and he’s been in meetings all day. End of the day at home, both are tired. How do you think the rest of the night will go should there be an misconstructed comment from either one of them?
Domestic helpers help. Immensely, in family situations.
In the case of Bangun and Ita, they’re lovely people and they’re always ready to help, and the kids love them. Just yesterday, on the third day of us in quarantine, my second child Maya already started asking about them and would like them with us here in Sydney.
So would I, kid. But life ain’t that easy in Australia.