Reading & Parenting

Your child can read some hiragana, and now katakana is next: another 46 letters that make the very same sounds, but look completely different. Here is how to make that second alphabet feel like a game instead of a wall.

“I’d love to learn Japanese alongside my child.” We hear this from parents often. But can an adult and a child really learn at the same pace?

Your child is curious about Japanese — maybe from anime, karate, or a grandparent in Japan — but you don’t speak a word of it. Where do you even start?

A video is efficient. Everything you need is right there — you just watch. So what exactly is different about reading a book instead?

The board books that worked at age two won’t do much for a curious seven-year-old. A bilingual bookshelf needs to grow alongside your child — in both languages, not just one.

Some of the most useful books in our house weren’t bought for any grand educational reason — they’re just the same story, twice, in two different languages.

A pile of books that never get opened twice is a familiar shelf in a lot of houses. A few things tend to separate the books kids actually ask for again from the ones that quietly gather dust.

Handing over a phone when a baby is crying is one of the easiest fixes there is. Easy, and understandable — but worth pausing on.