hoikuen hunting.....

　

a typical 保育園(hoikuen - nursery school) in japan...sekali pandang cam sekolah kan...yes sebab bilangan kanak2 yang dijaga dlm satu2 nursery school ni boleh mencapai 250 orang dr umur 6bulan- 3 tahun....taska kat msia berapa orang agaknya ek....

anyway...sekarang dlama proses mencari hoikuen untuk adik...he's 4 and 1/2 months now...but acts like an older child..otonashi....hihi....you might ask ... kenapa nak hantar hoikuen? yup...because i asked kak su that question sedangkan abg pali blh jaga faris...and yus asked kak ainun that same question since i'm available untuk jagakan adik....and the answer is... so the child gets to experience life amongst the japs...to get friends his own age...so that he can benefit from the education they receive in nursery schools...so that he can grow mentally....

for example..they learn discipline early on....my senior masa kat fukui dulu sent her daughter to hoikuen just for a few hours a day..and since they learn to drink from sippy cups in school she has stopped nursing from bottles at an early age....cuba kalau kita yang jaga maunye ada budak dah besar pun still pegang botol kan... and another senior here sends her son to  hoikuen too and he no longer needs a diaper...cm cepat sikit....plus they have activities at school like swimming..singing and such....

 bukanlah nak kata kita tak leh ajar anak kita buat cm tu kat umah kan...yes we can but it takes patience hard work and mcm2 lg...plus i have a theory that kids learn faster from their peers...siap penah tgk documentary about a study on children development..they had a group of same age babies play together..and one of the kids still couldn't crawl but the other could..and the mother said when they got home tiba2 je they baby leh crawl.... saaa naaa...

anyway...back to the hoikuen hunting thing... pening jugak la..one of the things that they stress upon is that the kid has to be 6 months and older...special case je leh hantar budak lagi kecik... diorang yuusen (pentingkan) org kerja..bila dengar parents adik students　ada hoikuen yang tak brapa nak amik adik...nak masuk hoikuen parents kena interview dulu... ada hoikuen tak nak amik sebeb polisi dia semua org kena makan benda sama melainkan ada surat doktor (utk kita yg muslim susah lah - kalau menu hari tu cik 'bab' cm ne)...kita mintak bincang bab tu pun dia kata tak boleh...tu polisi sekolah...hmmmmm

the search goes on..... hopefully adik gets in somewhere.... i myself as one of his caregivers want the best for him...