Posts

Showing posts from June, 2021

A month of elder brotherhood. Blessed weekend with friends/Parents network

Image
One month has passed since baby LM was born. She's been nocturnal and fussier at night. Since she's mostly breast-fed and we haven't fully started feeding from bottles, my wife m is fully attached to LM. So m is deprived of sleep, and she mostly lets me sleep at night so far. Once we start feeding from bottles more (which we should as she's going to go back to work in July), I should be able to help more. Other than a newborn, we're also moving from an apartment to a house we just bought. And although it's just an hour away, kids will change schools again. Elder brother HG is graduating this Montessori school we loved, and will start a public school. Can't really imagine how stressful all these changes are going to be especially when they are coming all at once. Before the daughter was born we expected some/much mental ups and downs for boys, particularly almost-3-yr AG who we've been seeing being aggressive for more than an year by now . For the past fe

Japanese language education: Another side of covid

Image
 My wife m and I agree rock solid on maintaining our Japanese heritage and teaching that to our kids. First of all both sides of kids grandparents are in Japan. My side of grand parents don't speak English as much. Kids would be in a trouble in the future if they can't communicate in Japanese with their grand parents in the land their parents are born in. In the US I've seen some/many parents came from Japan send their kids to a weekend-only school, typically called "hoshu-ko / 補習校". As far as I understand most of those schools are privately operated and teach subjects in Japanese language, and likely using Japanese textbooks. Idea is that because the school curriculum between US and Japan are different (most notably the students in Japan learn math much quicker, and likely deeper. Calculus is taught in high school in Japan) so when a family moves back to Japan children would have to catch up a lot if US curriculum for certain subjects is behind. Or history class