tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post2614558451286363928..comments2024-03-26T08:55:43.208-07:00Comments on Two Little Square Black Dogs: Wednesday In Japan...angryparsniphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236094827257446781noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-276275432939287672011-09-22T16:36:36.341-07:002011-09-22T16:36:36.341-07:00Not sure I feel about this "sport". Is i...Not sure I feel about this "sport". Is it cruel to make babies cry? Anybody who's ever been around a baby know that they cry anyway. I sometimes wonder if they don't actually enjoy it.<br /><br />Interesting that the baby who cries first wins. You'd think it'd be the other way around. I'm always reading that the Japanese frown upon open displays of emotion. This contest would seem to prove that wrong.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-4588151896966599552011-09-22T07:52:08.636-07:002011-09-22T07:52:08.636-07:00I agree with you Parsnip - every country has its t...I agree with you Parsnip - every country has its traditions and who are we, as outsiders, to say that they are wrong unless cruelty is involved (I believe somewhere in Spain they used to throw a live goat off a roof for some festival).The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-44669237224256805992011-09-22T07:34:54.573-07:002011-09-22T07:34:54.573-07:00I'd have a problem with making babies cry, too...I'd have a problem with making babies cry, too.<br /><br />But I love your posts. I learn so much about Japan that I didn't know. Thank you!Normahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12685538277690762655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-2393199468244802442011-09-22T07:33:02.200-07:002011-09-22T07:33:02.200-07:00I had a crying baby for the first four months and ...I had a crying baby for the first four months and so far - touch wood - he has been very healthy, with grown up children of his own:)Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-18745924466869533442011-09-22T02:40:49.155-07:002011-09-22T02:40:49.155-07:00Oh, though not precisely what you were writing abo...Oh, though not precisely what you were writing about, you hit one of my triggers. We tried to make a child for 20 years. Literally. Maybe about $100K of our own money added to what Blue Cross threw at fertility treatment. We gave up, with regret, when I was in my late 30s. She materialized when I neared 40 years of age. I have always claimed, out loud: "I waited the longest, I got the best one." She never had to cry very long for very much. It is my pleasure to have participated in giving life to this extraordinary human. A little different spin on "mommy-ism". Though I can do that, just a little, too. god love you, 'snip. You made me sentimental.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-17268262461998007052011-09-22T01:23:54.136-07:002011-09-22T01:23:54.136-07:00Hello:
Like you, we find it rather strange that an...Hello:<br />Like you, we find it rather strange that anyone, for whatever reason, should be encouraging a baby to cry other than, of course, at the point of birth. But this tradition belongs to another country and culture and to know of it, if not necessarily to understand it, makes us all the richer.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-74176958567685004052011-09-21T18:18:33.483-07:002011-09-21T18:18:33.483-07:00Empress Bee...
I rally like Sumo wrestling. So int...Empress Bee...<br />I rally like Sumo wrestling. So interesting and the robes the judges wear are so beautiful.<br /><br />Titus...<br />I have seen photos of the crying babies and I must say even though it tugs at my heart, they are so cute. Many of the babies don't cry and laugh instead.angryparsniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17236094827257446781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-21483703027329880292011-09-21T16:43:12.908-07:002011-09-21T16:43:12.908-07:00One of those festivals was featured in a recent do...One of those festivals was featured in a recent documentary on Japan over here. Brilliant bit where a mother confessed to pinching her baby to 'help' him! He was the most placid child ever.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184571205434660863.post-24833661038162511942011-09-21T16:08:31.460-07:002011-09-21T16:08:31.460-07:00very interesting. i've never seen sumo before...very interesting. i've never seen sumo before. just on tv.<br /><br />smiles, bee<br />xoxoxoxooxEmpress Bee (of the high sea)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08300140506585000934noreply@blogger.com