Category Archives: parenting

Paternity Leave: A few thoughts after the fact

Posted on December 30, 2013 by MThomas

I haven’t written on this blog in two years for a very good reason: I didn’t take a child care leave for my second child. From April 2010 to March 2011 I took a one year of child care leave … Continue reading →

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Family Day? Not in Japan

Posted on November 18, 2011 by MThomas

One of the problems with maintaining a blog about child raising is that the child-raising itself takes so much time that thee is little time to blog about it. If I thought I had little to,e last year while on … Continue reading →

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Year Two: Nursery School

Posted on September 24, 2011 by MThomas

Starting April 1st this year (the beginning of the school year in Japan), I went back to work and my daughter started her first year at a nearby private nursery school. Even prior to the official first day, we attended … Continue reading →

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