tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198629951037494295.post2480641721292859752..comments2023-11-22T03:32:31.513-05:00Comments on Mostly Harmless: No 1 no 2 Cuteness aka Japanese candor about the bodyThe Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198629951037494295.post-41301858769101858162007-04-04T01:05:00.000-04:002007-04-04T01:05:00.000-04:00Man, my stomach is on the fritz again. (Wonder wh...Man, my stomach is on the fritz again. (Wonder what the source of that phrase is.) Probably Shimajiro induced. Only time it ever felt worse was that one night in Chiba last August after eating bad shellfish sashimi. This one comes back, though. Still not getting much sympathy from the lady who gave birth twice. We're going to try to go cherry blossom spotting to distract me....The Constructivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198629951037494295.post-78735995464711320342007-04-03T20:11:00.000-04:002007-04-03T20:11:00.000-04:00Spot on, bill! For onechan we used a couple of to...Spot on, bill! For onechan we used a couple of toilet training books by authors of other books she liked as a toddler. She basically was using the toilet that summer in the States but completed the toilet training during our first month in Japan, with baba and gigi and the cousins in Chiba last August. We switched her over to big girl pants in Japan and except for the usual accidents never looked back in 2006.<BR/><BR/>Since then we've accumulated a pair of free <I>Shimajiro</I> DVDs, the latter of which is probably the source of this clip. (I didn't even know that the songs we had taught her about sharing (han bun ko de ureshi ee na) and waiting in line/taking turns (jun ban ko de ureshi ee na) came from <I>Shimajiro</I> until we got that first DVD.) One of the best times we had outside baba's house that month was taking all the kids (our two girls and their three boys) to a Shimajiro playland in a local mall.<BR/><BR/>I think every kid in Japan knows Shimajiro. It certainly helps make the case for expanding but not getting rid of E.D. Hirsch's concept of "cultural literacy."The Constructivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.com