With schools and most offices across Singapore closed as part of the country’s circuit breaker measures, families have been able to spend more time at home with each other.

This has apparently led Taiwanese actress Charlie Young, who has been based here since 2013, to notice something about her husband, Singaporean lawyer Khoo Shao Tze, and their three-year-old twins, Aloysius and Ignatius.

Last Sunday (Apr 12), the 45-year-old shared a post on Facebook detailing how her #StayHome weekend went.

After an early breakfast, she engaged her sons in a small arts and crafts project, told them a story, before they played with their toy cars. Soon after that, her husband came looking for them and said to the boys, “Let mama rest. Daddy will play with you two.”

According to Charlie, just watching them play made her feel tired and hungry, so she decided to whip up something in the kitchen before attending to other matters around the house, such as checking her email and messages, playing with the dogs, ordering food delivery, and folding the laundry.

All of a sudden, she realised that things were quiet. Too quiet. So she decided to go see what the boys were up to.

“When I opened the door, I saw Daddy lying very still on the floor with his eyes closed and the two monkeys happily running around him,” Charlie wrote. “Suddenly, Daddy opened his eyes and started waving his arms around saying, ‘I am [an] octopus!’ The monkeys screamed, and one of them was caught by the 'octopus' but he couldn’t stop laughing.”

As it turns out, they were playing the same game Charlie said she and her sons had played just the day before. But she couldn’t help but notice how different it seemed.

“They told me to play a unicorn and asked me what sound a unicorn makes… The way they play the same game with their mother is completely different from the way they play with their father! There are so many other things that mothers and fathers handle differently. Do you feel the same?”

Hmm, we could be reading too much into it, but is Charlie feeling envious of her hubby's relationship with their kids? Maybe you can volunteer to be a octopus next time.

Photos: Charlie Young/Facebook