Raising up kids in Japan

I can't imagine how expensive it is. In my home country education is almost free. Everytime I get reminded how much college costs here I thank God that I don't have and don't want children 😭

My son is almost 3 but isn't speaking as much as his peers. We think it's because he's exposed to 3 languages at the same time, English, our local language and Japanese, and a little bit of Arabic.

Interesting experience from many people here..

As for me.. my kids were born in japan.. and Attend kindergarten where they were they spent more time speaking Japanese lan with friends and teachers..

Although they could understand English language at home beca that is the language both me and my wife speaks to them..

however, they always respond back to us in Japanese language as they are more fluent in it..

what we did was to take them home to our country for 3 months and automatically they switched back to English language because no body was understanding them there..

so my point is take them out of there comfort zone and they will adapt..

I have a 3-year-old son that goes to Kindergarten. We speak our native language which is mixed with Tagalog and English at home. He speaks English and some Tagalog words. He's quickly learning a few Japanese words in Kindergarten. At the same time, with his help, his friends are also learning English.

I am a Canadian citizen who has been living in Japan for decades! I have three children and they are bilingual in Japanese and English. My oldest son is an adult and second son is approaching 18 and my daughter is in her teens. If you are an English speaker and want your child to understand/speak English, then you must invest your time to make it happen in Japan! For me, I did not allow my children to watch or listen to Japanese children shows but exposed them to only western children shows. In my early years, I was fortunate not to have work till the afternoons so I spent as much time talking and singing English to my babies!

Following this thread! My daughter is 17 months old.

I would love to hear the experiences of parents raising mixed race children in Japan in particular considering this is likely to become my situation in the future…