Cute and sweet stickers for priority seats

Recently, you can find these cute and sweet stickers pasted on the MRT walls behind the priority seats.

Stickers in pink and yellow features pregnant women and parents with kids respectively.

We have started noticing these stickers when we board an almost empty train. It also means that if the train is packed or if someone is seating on the priority seats, public would not be able to see these stickers. What a waste! Nevertheless, we still have big blue and white stickers high up on the walls to remind the public to be gracious and give up their seats to those in need; i.e. elderly, pregnant women and parents carrying kids.

Two issues that we have noticed :

1. People on the other seats expect the one who doesn’t fit the priority seats categories and have seated in the priority seat to give up their seats.
2. No one gave up seats to fathers who are carrying their baby but some will offer the seats to the mothers with the baby.

Weird????? Maybe, we need to fine tune our thinking, isn’t it? Whether which seat you are seating, it’s a virtue to give it up to someone really in need and not wait for others to take the first step. Why wait? What are people waiting for? Isn’t Daddy humans too. Don’t they need a seat too no matter how strong they are!!! It’s not a matter of the weight of the baby. It’s for safety reasons. What if the train jerks? Does the father, elderly and pregnant women be spared of being jerked?

We hope to see more kindness around. If you are a kind person, don’t be shy and show your initiative. If you are not, that’s really sad. We shall not comment further.

Baby Seat available in ladies washroom…

Over the weekend when I brought our baby on an outing to the new Orchard Central located besides Somerset MRT and opposite Centrepoint, I was impressed with this initiative by the designer of this newly opened shopping mall. Not only that the concept of the stores is different, the toilets are impressive too. The downside of it, there is still a lot of spaces not taken up, which makes shopping there a quick affair.

Speaking of their washrooms, one of the cubicles is equipped with a baby seat. And I find it extremely useful as I can put my baby to sit at the side while I attend to my own needs. I really applaud such initiatives. It makes the outing more pleasant for mothers especially.



We have seen that more malls are baby friendly nowadays. There have better nursing rooms but they were never enough and only available at one level. Another problem faced, in my view is the provision of traveling using a pram. Even when we have the lift, normally we have to wait for a few trips before we can enter one. Either it is packed or people will looked at you as if you are going to enter with an elephant. And they often do not make room for you and the pram even there is enough space. They will just hit on the ‘door close’ button.

Hence, to prevent such a frustrated experience, I always carry my baby. The baby seat in the washroom is definitely something that is welcoming to me and mothers alike.