{"id":1716,"date":"2022-10-20T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habitways.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:55:44","slug":"elementor-1716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitways.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Taking care of others"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1716\" class=\"elementor elementor-1716\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b1e2c19 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b1e2c19\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e9131ab\" data-id=\"e9131ab\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5123021 elementor-position-top elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"5123021\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.6.7 - 03-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">October 20, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;\">I finally added something from the \u201ctaking care of others\u201d category for my daily habit. This week, I\u2019m helping the girls do their homework every night. I\u2019ve been avoiding this category for a couple of reasons. One, this project is one of my own making, so it doesn\u2019t seem quite right to force it upon others. Two, especially with my daughters, I typically opt for choosing my battles with them, and don\u2019t want to rely on their compliance for my success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;\">In this case, I made an exception though, mostly because we have been concerned about the girls not doing their homework and falling behind in their Japanese immersion classes. My youngest daughter\u2019s teacher even gave us a deadline for her to learn all of the hiragana characters (that\u2019s the primary 46-character phonetic alphabet) by the end of October, as she should have learned them already by the end of first grade last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;\">So far, it\u2019s actually been pretty fun. The girls generally read a short passage in Japanese a few times, then I go through hiragana flash cards with my younger daughter, and help my older daughter answer questions about the reading. The flash cards are the best part, because I try to make up mnemonics to help her remember the characters, and there is a lot of laughing as she makes fun of me doing my charades. It\u2019s working though! There are still a few characters that she gets stuck on, but for the most part, I think she can recognize all of them visually at this point. Next, I want to work on telling her the sound and having her write the character, a bigger challenge.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;\">In college, which was, alas, many many years ago, I studied Japanese, and spent a year living in a homestay in Kyoto during my junior year abroad. At that time, I was relatively fluent, and knew about 2,000 kanji, which are the Chinese characters &#8211; the third system of writing in Japan. Sadly, I have lost a lot of that knowledge over the years, including almost all of the kanji. Still, I know enough that I can help my 2nd and 4th grade children with their homework. We\u2019ll see how long it takes before they\u2019ve outpaced my ancient brain!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-60a46fbf-7fff-2bd8-0e6c-8fb2de89d2d2\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">(Oh, and no, this habit was not on my original <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/habitways.com\/?p=1459\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">list<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> of habits! 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