The twelfth "Let's talk with the mayor!"

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I would like to focus on "child care" very much. The problem may be happening on the spot, so I will have the opportunity to talk with people who are working on the spot like everyone on the theme of "child care", just being in the government office I am studying by giving me a notice that I do not understand.
Parenting means nurturing one person, so I realize that there are really various aspects. Today, I would like to exchange opinions with everyone who has been working as a child care salon for many years. Thank you very much.

You mentioned that it was an initiative that was started not to isolate parents and children who are raising children, but how do you feel the change in the child-raising environment after you have been active for 12 years?

By starting with the aim of not being isolated, I thought that the connection with the community had changed very much. The volunteers of "Medaka" are all people who can walk, so they meet at supermarkets and call out, really have a deeper relationship like granddaughter, not only preventing isolation but also raising children throughout the community I feel like

Could you tell us what you value in doing your activities here?

The reality is that I left what my father left because you told me that you wanted to continue. However, I also wanted to do something for the community, and there was a great deal that I had to leave it as it was.
Since a small child is coming, it's not easy to recruit volunteers to say, "Yes, recruit, please come." That's why I'm inviting the staff to come when I have built a relationship of trust. After all, if you don't have such a relationship, the staff will not be able to collect it.
Also, a small child is afraid to go alone and cannot make a park debut. When I came to "Medaka" and heard that I went to the park for the first time with a family of 3 or 4 people, I hope that I should continue this business as it is.
After all, I think it would be best to have places where you can feel safe and consult. I'm also involved in nursery schools, but my mother often says, "I was saved." I hope there is a place to be helped in these areas, and I run it.

Many of the parents who come to "medaka" have moved to Asahi Ward from other areas and live there. Asahi Ward has a lot of greenery and a comfortable place to live in, so I've moved here, so I hope I can help you enjoy raising children. If you can make connections between mothers, when you go to kindergarten, elementary school, or junior high school, "Is it easy to raise children?" "I hope my mothers can talk about their worries and have fun raising children." I call out and volunteer to support them.

I have raised my own child, have studied to some extent of child care, and have experienced it, so I wonder if I have some advice. My grandchildren are kindergarten students and fourth graders, but when they were preschoolers, I was absent from the staff and I came here as a user. So, in the sense that I am raising children with my current mothers, I came to say, "Let's raise children together, not just mothers." As a volunteer, I have a stance that I should be close to my parents and children.

When I was able to have my eldest daughter, I didn't go so much, but when my second daughter was born, my eldest daughter was very stressed, and I asked parents and children in the same situation, "It's good." I came to go.
I'm very grateful for this here, so I want to do what I got when I was a user.

For example, when consulting from parents, my experience is inevitably the main thing, so I am careful to keep my flat thoughts in myself as much as possible so as not to give strange guidance. Whether or not the correct answer is different from person to person, so I try to communicate so that I don't communicate what I've done is right.

The main policy is to express and accept those who came with great joy, saying, "I came a lot." My mother is only two parents and children, and I often hear that I want to talk to adults, so my motto is to talk.

Have you been active here in "Medaka" for 12 years and how do you want to operate it in the future?

In this area, there are fewer children, so if mothers who are stuck in raising children in their homes can come here and dissipate their mood, I would like to do it as it is.

What challenges do you have in continuing your activities?

It's a publicity activity, or a PR activity that there is such a place here. I've been doing it until now, but I'd like to do PR activities more than ever and have many people come here.

Once you come, you can see the good atmosphere.

Volunteers will work hard, so I feel really encouraging and I want everyone to continue for a long time.

What kind of involvement and support should be provided by the government in continuing these activities or raising children in the community?

It's not support, but the number of dual-income households is increasing very much, and everyone will return to work immediately, so I think the period during which you bring your child is too short. For example, it seems that you can participate only when you are 0 years old, you can only participate until about 1 year old. A little ago, many people went to kindergarten until just before entering kindergarten, but now I realize that there are very many children who graduated from such a plaza among 0-year-olds. There is.
I think some people are returning to work because they want to work, but more and more households may not be able to live without working. I want to take care of my time with my child, but I think that some people will return to work because they will not be able to live unless they work, so I feel that is an issue.

It would be helpful if you could protect such places and activities so that you can continue in the future.
"Medaka" was moving due to the problem of earthquake resistance, and was in a little easier to understand before. Because it was near the shopping street, some people could jump in, but it is difficult to understand here, so if you look for a place where you can lend a little more widely, other facilities will increase You.
I'm borrowing here with a promise of 10 years, but I don't know how long this building will be left. There is no new place for other salons, even if they have to go out. The reality is that you can't borrow it. If you don't get the understanding of the region, you can't lend it. There are many reasons why children's voices are noisy.
I also run a nursing care facility, but if you try to build a facility, you may be opposed by the neighborhood. Still, there is no choice but to ask and build it, but from the government, for example, if it is possible to build it next to a community house, it is a little easier to operate.

　Users are still in use today, but how often do you use it?

It has decreased a little now, but I used to come every day before, and now it's a lot two days a week. It's been four years since my upper child came from the age of one and moved to Asahi Ward. I feel like I've made friends because of this. When I moved, I was checking if there was such a place, but I couldn't come alone because I was nervous. However, there was a staff member here in the same Neighborhood Associations, who asked me to speak out and came here.

The frequency has decreased, but I used to come 2-3 times a week before. I wanted to play here in the morning and take a nap at home in the afternoon, and when I could come, I came quite often.

I moved just before my child was born, so I didn't know anyone, so I felt like I was just working. I came here in the baby classroom, and for the first time I learned that there was something like a support center. It's about a year old, but it's wide and running around, and the toys are completely different from those at home. Mothers can also consult about raising children, and there are staff, so it's easy to hear and rely on them.

From two months ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic, I felt like I had lunch here and stayed until evening.

I don't have lunch because of the situation now. I also want to increase the number of people, but I can't give out the infected person of COVID-19 here.

You're right. That's why I think your child's safety is protected.

As the government provides the baby classroom here, the baby classroom uses the open space as it is. Cooperation with public health nurses has been very smooth and we have participated in meetings.

Thank you very much for having the opportunity to talk with Medaka and mothers today.
I think that your child's feelings are really wonderful, and above all, I thought again that the government must support what you are working on with the feelings of volunteers. .
The COVID-19 pandemic has been prolonged and activities have been restricted. However, I think that everyday life will return in the future, and I think that the government must support the return of everyday life as a government.
I would like to do what I can, including financial support for families with children. Among me, the priority of things related to children is high, so I would like to strengthen them.
Thank you very much for your time during your busy schedule today.