[Blast88]

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Originally Posted by Blast88

My pair of twin gals went thru a few years of childcare. From N1 to K2, that's like 4 years of childcare, before proceeding to Primary 1. My youngest boy is going through it now at N1. I placed my gals in PAP childcare initially from N1 to N2 as its much cheaper. My oldest gal don't have baby bonus under old scheme but my 2nd gal has. So both of them were using the same baby bonus of my younger gal. As my wife is Singapore Citizen and working, there's a relief of $150 per kid. I cannot really remember what was the school fees like then, but its not expensive. At K1, i saw that my gals were not improving much as the classes at PAP were big, so i transferred my gals to private (Kinderland) . After $150 working mother relief, the school fees per kid per month was at $650. Baby bonus pay half, i pay half. Because the class size was much smaller, my gals improved a lot.

Things are much different now for my boy. After working mother relief, school fees is still at $1000 as i placed him under private too ( Learning Vision) . Baby bonus pay half, i pay half.

One thing to note is that when your child goes to childcare for the initial few months, he will keep falling sick. Once one of his school mates catch a cold or even hand foot mouth, the chances of your kid catching it too is very high, so be prepared. My boy has been in childcare since 18 months old as i wanted him to learn to be independent from young. Now at 3 years old, he's still crying sometimes in the morning as he refused to go school.

Hope my little sharing helps...

Hi Bro SV,

What if only father is working, will there be any relief? Possible to utilise the baby bonus to pay for the full school fee?