Beyond differences the more mommies become friends ,the more lovely worlds become
10カ月ぶりの活動です!!
ショウワノートさんの工場見学に行ってきました!
創業から50年だそうで、日本のほとんどの方はジャポニカ学習帳と共に育ってきた、もしくは子育てしてきた経験あり、と言っても過言じゃなさそう!
日本全国で沢山の方に使われているこのノートが富山県から生まれたなんて本当に富山県民の誇りです!
見学時間は60分と決まっており、あっという間に時間が過ぎました。3Fミュージアムではずっと眺めていたかった…。ショップでは散財してしまいました(笑)。子ども達の冬休みのいい思い出の一コマになったかな。大人も満喫できましたよ!
After 10 months, very long time…., we enjoyed this activity, Sho-wa Note Factory tour and museum in Takaoka City.
Their notebooks products have spread throughout Japan for 50 years from our Toyama Prefecture!!! Really amazing and cool!!
We Toyama prefecture people are really proud of this products!! and love them!!
Kitanihon Shinbun covers for today’s newspaper about the Toyama City International Exchange Festival, and thankfully also writes about our booth!!
↓You can visit the web page below
http://webun.jp/item/7516165
We had our booth for the first time in the Toyama City International Exchange Festival this year!
As we have enrolled in the Toyama prefectural organization “Toyama International Center” official list last year, we can have our booth for the festival!! Very honored!!
We introduced about our group to visitors, and showed the collected answers by moms around the world, of 60 questions related with pregnancy-delivery-childcare. Thanks to moms’ great contribution for this program, we could show 9 countries’ info during the event.
At least 125 people stopped by at our booth!!
And we could see many nice friends there, that was amazingly nice day the same with the warm and pleasant weather yesterday!
What a great day!
Thank you so much for visiting our booth!
And thank you so much all of you, friends, fellow-moms, families!!
本日6月18日(月)づけの、北日本新聞で大きくお取り上げ頂きました!
GMMに関わる全ての皆さんと共に積み上げて来た5年目ですね。
本当に感慨深いです。
そしてこれからもどうぞ引き続きよろしくお願い致します。
↓You can visit the web page below
http://webun.jp/item/7471436
2018年6月4日(月)付けの北陸中日新聞、富山紙面で大きくお取り上げ頂きました!
[The translation] Shiho Nakamura has established the group, which is the only one group of international interaction for moms and children in Toyama. Now It has been in the fifth year since its establishment.– What are your activities like?
I have organized various kinds of activities irregularly. But mochitsuki&miso cooking activity has become our regular yearly event. We enjoy activities of Japanese or other countries’, sometimes we enjoy visiting Toyama sightseeing places.
A mom from Indonesia said “As Indonesian children have many many homeworks than Japanese kids, I thought kids have to study hard before coming here. But now, I think this Japanese style is good because it is not too hard for kids.”
I wish this GMM could be the playground which offer the potential that moms could consider what they choose by themselves for their own parenting style, looking over again their values and stereotypes of communities which they have belong to.
– What do you think about how Japanese dads had better get involved in their parenting?
Many women from abroad tell me that there are still so many glass ceilings to women in Japan. For example, in Finland the ratio of parenting roll of dads and moms is 50:50. Why could they do so? Because dads can go back home around 16:30 or 17:00 when they want/need. I think if the Japanese dads could do the same like them when they need/want, the Japanese moms could make much more achievements among societies, and also at the same time they could enjoy the roll of moms.
what is your next step?
We have now an ongoing project of “World Childcare”, which is a hearing survey style worldwide activity with mom-friends around the world through this GMM. I hope someday we could hold exhibition event here in TOyama to show the collected answers to widen our eyes open more, to connect more moms. And of course I continue to organize various activities for this group.
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