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@987abc I live in Japan. Daycare is about $150 per month. Babysitters aren't really a thing here so we ask the grandparents to watch our daughter if we go somewhere we can't take her, like to the movies. We rarely go out though, and if it's just dinner and a few drinks it's easy enough to take...

@olivemcr Good luck! I think we have an advantage as moms teaching our kids English here. Almost all kids I know or who I've taught at school here who have a Japanese mother and a foreign father, can't speak English, because their foreign fathers don't stick with OPOL. The kids get used to...

@lostandinsecure Yes I would see one if I could but it's just not a feasible option right now where we are living in the world as well as financially. The SLP we talked to online did recommend some YouTube videos to practice with. Do you think stuff like this would help?

@lostandinsecure Her tongue doesn't always come between her teeth. She has been conscious of her lisp since the SLP pointed it out, and she tries to correct it herself sometimes, but even when she keeps her tongue behind her teeth, it still sounds off. She can't really do r or th either, even...

@aldredian Yeah I used to just repeat what she said but in correct English, hoping she would passively pick up on the correct way, but recently I've started actively correcting her and having her repeat after me. I'm the primary caregiver but I work full-time and my daughter is in Japanese...

My daughter is 5, the community language is Japanese, but she spoke English at home with me first. She started talking before she was one, and was speaking in full sentences by the time she was two. I thought she'd have no problems picking up English because she started talking so early, even...

@taylordoss Yeah, my mom was single and we were poor, plus my brother was born with some special needs, so she had a lot on her plate and couldn't handle him. I've distanced myself from both of them as well. I left home and even moved to a different country as soon as I could.

@lippy1004 My daughter is 5 and I don't think she feels left out. She has easily made friends at her Japanese daycare. However, I think she does experience a bit of othering because she speaks English. When her friends hear her speaking English with me, they often react and say stuff like, "What...

@dcg Yeah, and I wasn't vaccinated for anything during pregnancy. ETA: lol why was I downvoted? It wasn't my decision, the TDaP vaccine is literally not available where I live.

@corta We are civil, but I rarely talk to him or see him. He has had some counseling and has apologized for his "anger issues," which I appreciate, but we don't really have anything in common or anything to talk about now.

@dcg Babies get 4 doses of DPT-IPV and then they get one shot of DT when they're 11. I've never heard of any kids getting whooping cough here, at least not at my daughter's daycare.

@ipurr2 I grew up afraid that my older brother was going to kill me in my sleep. He threatened me every single day. He used to hit me, scratch me, and throw things at me, and leave bruises and scratches all over my face and arms so often, that the school suspected my mother of child abuse...

@elam84 I live in Japan and nobody gets TDaP vaccinations. The vaccine isn't even approved by the Japanese government.