We “GMM” appeared on the Hokuriku Chunichi Shinbun!!

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.
So far, in total 883 participants from over 15 countries havejoined its activities. 
She hopes to let it become the playground which has potentials for moms to consider and find her own comfortable parenting style, having global perspective and global sense, apart from stereotypes surrounding them.
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Having worked for a publishing company and a river cruise company, she has established the group Global Mommies Mingling in September 2013. Just after 911, in Toyama as she had profound relationships with various people from abroad, she has got started to learn English by herself. She is a mom of one child. 
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– what made you establish the group?
In Toyama, as my works, I have interviewed people from abroad what they observe about this Toyama, what they see about this Toyama. During the works, I met a Finnish mom, who gave a birth here. After that, I myself have become a mom too. I realised indeed that it is very hard task for moms to deliver and raise babies even in living their own home countries. In addition to that, I also experienced pregnant women have many restrictions for their daily life, and as they have to concentrate on taking care of babies and children every day, their options to enrich their daily life tend to become limited, it means there becomes fewer options for moms to experience various activities to enrich their daily life.
As I have been interested in international interaction, I wanted to make a playground where moms could enjoy being with babies and kids , having global insights and sense.

– 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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We are registered in the Toyama International Center

【English Follows Japanese】
約4年間積み重ねて来た実績が認められ、GMMがこの度、県の機関「とやま国際センター」の【富山県国際交流団体ネットワーク会議】の一員として登録されました!
http://www.tic-toyama.or.jp/extra_inform…/network-list.html…
2013年9月1日、第一回の活動【茶道体験】から、38企画、のべ786人のママと子ども達に参加頂きました(2017年5月現在)。
ひとつひとつの活動に参加してくださった参加者の皆様、そしていろんな企画を実現するためにサポートし、協力し、講師となってくださった皆様、ワークショップを提供してくださった皆様、サークルをいろんな方に紹介して輪を広げるお手伝いをしてくださった皆様、GMMに関わってきてくださった全ての皆様に、改めて心より感謝申し上げます。これを新たなステップとし、さらにますます良い会へと発展していけるよう邁進いたします。今後共どうぞ皆様よろしくお願い致します。

As our “Global Mommies Mingling” activity-records during these four years are approved by “Toyama International Center” which is the organization of Toyama prefecture, we are registered as a member of [Toyama International Exchange Group Network Conference] which the TIC has offered and managed!!!!!!!!! Really exciting and so happy!!
http://www.tic-toyama.or.jp/extra_inform…/network-list.html…
You can see our GMM name on the webpage!!
On September 1, 2013, I organized our first activity “Tea ceremony at Momono sensei’s house”. During these almost 4 years, 38 activities, 786 participants in total.
Here I would love to express my big appreciation for every friend who participated in the activities, for people who have supported, cooperated to organize, for lecturers who offered their workshops, for friends who have introduced our group to moms and pre-moms who would be interested in, I appreciate all of you from the bottom of my heart.
I am sure that I will keep putting my heart into this management and organizing and connecting more and more moms with improving my intuition and visions untiringly. I would love to kindly ask you for your ongoing supports and helps and hearts.

Earth Day Toyama posted our booth!

On Facebook, Earth Day Toyama wrote about our [Before I Die] booth (^^)

「私が死ぬ前にしたいことは・・・」 さまざまな夢や決意が語られています。地球市民エリアに出展されたGlobal Mommies Minglingさんから、投稿いただきました。ほんの一部を紹介します。

アースデイとやまさんの投稿 2017年5月25日

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