Three Weeks in Japan with a Toddler

Three Weeks in Japan with a Toddler(laktek.com)

9 points by laktek 353 days ago | 3 comments

pergadad 353 days ago |

> Early this month, my wife and I spent 3-weeks in Japan with our 3-year-old son. Our second son is only 10 months old and didn't join the trip. We felt it would be hard to keep up with his feeding and sleeping schedule with the intensity of the trip, so he stayed home with his grandparents.

Wow, I cannot imagine being these parents. Who leaves their 10 month old son three weeks with the grandparents to go on vacation? I cannot judge someone else from the distance and I don't know their life and context but from just this article I get the impression these are parents that have their children mainly for esthetic reasons.

laktek 352 days ago | |

I'm the author of the blog post. To add more context, kids have been living with their grandparents from birth (extended family home). And grandparents usually help with the feeding and sleeping routine. We trust them to take better care of our kids than a childcare center or an au pair (which most kids with working parents have to go through as early as 4-6 months).

I knew that sharing about kids on the internet invites judgments from strangers. However, parenting is a different journey for each person and cannot be measured by the same yardstick.

sdwr 353 days ago | |

Depends on how much you trust the GPs. I can see it being a win win - a little shock to the system helps the child build robustness + learn that change isn't bad. It takes a village!