Dear Diary Boy (eBook)

An Exacting Mother, Her Free-spirited Son, and Their Bittersweet Adventures in an Elite Japanese School

Kumiko Makihara (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
224 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-892-7 (ISBN)

Infos

An intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child’s painful experience trying to fit in at a prestigious private elementary school.

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When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan's top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. Taro would wear the historic dark blue uniform and learn alongside other little Einsteins while she basked in the glory of his high achievements with the other perfect moms. Together they would climb the rungs into the country's successful elite. But it didn't turn out that way. Taro had other things in mind.While set in Japan, their struggles in the school's hyper-competitive environment mirror those faced by parents here in the US and raise the same questions about the best way to educate a childespecially one that doesn't quite fit the mold. Public or private? Competitive or nurturing? Standardized or individualized. Helicopter parenting or free-range? Amid this frenzied debate, how does one find balance and maintain a healthy parent-child relationship? Dear Diary Boy is an intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's experience in a prestigious private Tokyo school. It's a tale that will resonate with all parents as we try to answer the age-old questions of how best to educate our children and what, truly, is in their best interests versus what is in our own.

Autor

Kumiko Makihara’s work has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times Magazine and Newsweek, as well as in the books Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future That Works and Tsunami: Japan’s Post Fukushima Future. She previously was a reporter for Time Magazine and the Associated Press and a features editor at the Moscow Times. She resides in New York City and Tokyo.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: ADHD • Adoption • Asian education • Best • brilliant students • creating brilliant students • damaging results • damaging social pressure • divorced in Japan • divorced mother • divorced mother in japan • Education Debate • failed education system • failed student • Failure • famous education system • grades • highly praised • intense social pressure to succeed • Japanese Education System • Japanese moms • Japanese mothers • japanese parenting • Japanese private school • japanese schools • Kazakhstan • Kazakhstan adoption • keeping up with other MOMS • mother and child conflict • mother and child school conflict • parenting • parenting peer pressure • parenting pressure • Peer Pressure • perfection • perfect Japanese mothers • presure for perfection • private school disaster • public vs private school • rigors of the Japanese private school system • Single Mothers • social pressures • square peg in a round hole • Success • system failed the student • Tiger Mom • Tokyo • tokyo mothers • Tokyo schools • too much pressure • trying to fit in • working mother in Japan • Working Mothers
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-892-2 / 1628728922
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-892-7 / 9781628728927