Summary: <p>We talk about raising kids in Japan even though we’ve only raised one, about schooling even though we didn’t attend here below the university level, and about various digressions.</p> <p><strong>Transcript</strong></p> <p>K: So, lately I’ve been thinking a lot about having babies and raising babies in Japan. And educating them and just all things babies.</p> <p>C: Okay, but you know that we’re beyond that right? Rasta’s 25, and I am not going to participate in any having babies project.</p> <p>K: So, but if I did have a baby, we’d be super rich because </p> <p>C: We would be because both of us have been surgically sterilized, so</p> <p>K: Yes. Well, I don’t think of mine as surgical sterilization. I had a hysterectomy.</p> <p>C: It is litera- yes.</p> <p>K: I don’t think of it as surgical sterilization. </p> <p>C: Okay. </p> <p>K: Like, I didn’t have the hysterectomy to be sterilized.</p> <p>C: Right.</p> <p>K: So, you did get surgically sterilized. You had the vasectomy for the purpose of sterilization.</p> <p>C: Yes.</p> <p>K: And I had cancer, so that’s (laughs) completely different motives for having those bits removed.</p> <p>C: Yes.</p> <p>K: You didn’t have really- you had really tiny bits removed because I did watch your vasectomy.</p> <p>C: Right.</p> <p>K: And that made him so nervous. I don’t know why he offered to let me be in the room if it was going to make him nervous.</p> <p>C: Yeah. “Hey do you want to watch? What, you’re saying yes? Now I’m nervous.” </p> <p>K: Yeah because I was like “yes, please, I want to watch surgery.”</p> <p>C: Okay. And that was only under local anesthesia, so I was awake. </p> <p>K: Mmm. Not really.</p> <p>C: I wasn’t lucid, but I was awake. </p> <p>K: You think you were awake. I don’t think you were awake.</p> <p>C: I think I was awake.</p> <p>K: I don’t think you were.</p> <p>C: Okay.</p> <p>K: So, just bam, right out the gate with a digression. So, just straight up, I blame all our digressions on you. I feel like I am laser focused always.</p> <p>C: You are laser focused, and today you are laser focused on having babies.</p> <p>K: (laughs) No. I’m laser focused on when Rasta has babies. The decision to do like… public local school in Japan or international schools in Japan.</p> <p>C: Mmm.</p> <p>K: And here’s the quandary with the international schools: because of my position as a therapist in Nagoya, I have worked with heads of a lot of the international schools, and I’ve worked with a lot of teachers. And here’s the thing, all of the teachers say, “I don’t recommend my school.” </p> <p>C: Mm. That’s tough. </p> <p>K: And that’s like- yeah, so, and even like some people in head positions are like “I don’t recommend my school.” </p> <p>C: Uh-huh.</p> <p>K: So that’s like “whaaat?” And the international schools here cost bank. </p> <p>C: Yes they do.</p> <p>K: They cost grip.</p> <p>C: Yes.</p> <p>K: So I think that’s so weird. So, I don’t personally have any… a couple of the schools, I’ve gone and sat in the classes and stuff, but I don’t have a high… a high view of schools in general.</p> <p>C: Right.</p> <p>K: So we did a hybrid- if you’re a regular listener you already know this- we did a hybrid of public school and homeschooling, and it worked out great for us.</p> <p>C: Public, private, and home, yeah.</p> <p>K: Yeah.</p> <p>C: But Rasta was out of elementary and secondary education by 12, so.</p> <p>K: Yeah because he graduated high school and went into college. </p> <p>C: Right.</p> <p>K: So, for his kids, like… raising a bilingual kid, everybody feels like I’m an expert on that because Rasta is bilingual and bicultural, and I think it looks- he makes it look effortless. It was a lot of blood sweat and tears. </p> <p>C: It was.</p> <p>K: Mostly tears on my part.</p> <p>C: Yeah.</p> <p>K: Mostly sweat on my part. And </p>
