Comments on: Japan Stippy: Daddy-san Series http://www.blacktokyo.com/?p=4341&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-stippy-daddy-san-series Japan with an afro perspective! Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:44:47 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Brent http://www.blacktokyo.com/?p=4341&cpage=1#comment-1355 Brent Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:12:48 +0000 http://www.blacktokyo.com/?p=4341#comment-1355 Our doctor (despite being in the small city we live in) is very urban and has lived in the States. He encouraged us in many ways and was sensative to our needs as a multicultural family. 6 months is the perfect time to take your baby traveling he says (and has done) -- they don't need food (believe me, you don't want be travelling with a ton of food) or need to move (again, you don't want to be traveling for long periods of time with an infant you can't reason with). My wife and I traveled with our 8 month old son... not a mistake, but we agreed, we should have gone overseas earlier and will do so with our next son (coming soon ;) ). One of the biggest things my wife and/or my mother-in-law and I clash on (my father-in-law isn't the clash type), is culture. WOOOOOOO... don't EVEN get me started, suffice to say, NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER under any circumstance let either of the cultures get in the way of raising a baby. You don't need culture to do so, because remember, baby doesn't KNOW anything about culture. Put it all aside and just raise your baby with love and all the rest will fall into place naturally. Expat Daddy, Brent Our doctor (despite being in the small city we live in) is very urban and has lived in the States. He encouraged us in many ways and was sensative to our needs as a multicultural family. 6 months is the perfect time to take your baby traveling he says (and has done) — they don’t need food (believe me, you don’t want be travelling with a ton of food) or need to move (again, you don’t want to be traveling for long periods of time with an infant you can’t reason with). My wife and I traveled with our 8 month old son… not a mistake, but we agreed, we should have gone overseas earlier and will do so with our next son (coming soon ;) ). One of the biggest things my wife and/or my mother-in-law and I clash on (my father-in-law isn’t the clash type), is culture. WOOOOOOO… don’t EVEN get me started, suffice to say, NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER under any circumstance let either of the cultures get in the way of raising a baby. You don’t need culture to do so, because remember, baby doesn’t KNOW anything about culture. Put it all aside and just raise your baby with love and all the rest will fall into place naturally.

Expat Daddy,
Brent

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