Sri Lankan grandparents have become babysitters.

Jungle Fowl
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

I’ll cut straight to the point. Do you ask your parents to take care of your kids? If so why? Did your parents ask their parents to take care of you? Most probably not. Now, don’t come up with excuses like, “life used to be so easy”, “we are busy with work”, “our mums never had to do jobs” blah.. blah... That’s bullshit.

Most of the grandparents are over 55, and they have to run around with a two year old throughout the day . Do you think that’s easy? FIY, it’s NOT.

Here’s my theory. What would you do if you cannot afford a fancy dinner at a five star hotel? You don’t go to that dinner, right? And you can just have buth with pol sambol and a karola baduma (my favourite :-D) for dinner, simple. Same theory applies when it comes to taking care of your kids. If you can’t take care and raise your own kids, don’t have kids. Period.

This is me letting out my frustration just by sharing what I think about the whole situation. Just let me know what you think about this situation in the comments.

p.s. - do let me know if you find a language mistakes. I’m still learning this foreign language.

~jf~