Tag Archives: Japanese

Nursery Schools: Part II (Finally)

Posted on March 15, 2014 by MThomas

As I posted some time ago, we were fortunate that my oldest daughter was able to enter a city-approved nursery school. We were even more fortunate to have first choice on a new housing plot that wasn’t even technically on … Continue reading →

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Usagi and the Bear

Posted on February 23, 2014 by MThomas

Since my daughter was a baby, she’s been obsessed with rabbits (usagi, in Japanese). We first had a stuffed sheep doll for her, but she quickly became enamoured of a musical pink bunny whose cord she could pull to start … 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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