子育て真っ最中のJunと妻のAkinaが、2歳半と1歳になった子供たちの育児について語り合っています。どんな内容なのか、会話を聴いてみましょう!
性格が全く違う年子の育児は大変!
【Jun】So, our little, little one, Maika just turned one a couple weeks ago.
(我が家の末っ子のマイカが数週間前に1歳になったね)
【Akina】Yeah. Happy birthday Maika.
(ええ。マイカ、お誕生日おめでとう)
【Jun】Happy birthday Maika. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe a year has gone by.
(おめでとう。生まれてから1年も経ったなんて信じられないよ)
【Akina】I know.
(ホントだね)
【Jun】It went by fast, didn’t it? I mean, I feel like, with Ruka’s first year, it went by fast.
(あっという間だったね。上の子のルカの時も最初の一年は早かった)
【Akina】Yeah, it went by fast.
(そうだね)
【Jun】But for me personally, Maika’s first year was like a blur. Like, in the blink of an eye, I swear, I turned this way, and looked over and boom! He was like one year old.
(でも個人的には、マイカの最初の1年はホントに一瞬に感じたよ。こっちを見て向こうを見たら、もう1歳になってたって感じ)
【Akina】Yeah, I think it’s because we’ve been so busy, taking care of two kids. And we don’t really have time to like focus on, like, every little milestone that Maika goes through.
(2人の子供のお世話でホントに忙しくしてたからね。2人目になると、成長過程で起きる一つ一つの小さな出来事にまで注意を向ける時間なんてないのよね)
【Jun】I know. It’s kind of unfortunate. Because like with Ruka, you’re watching every little step of the way, like, oh my God, you know, he just smiled. Oh my God, you know, he just started crawling.
(少し残念だけどそうだね。上の子の時は、初めて笑った時とか、初めてハイハイした時とか、一つ一つの成長が見れたよね)
【Akina】I know, and the with Maika, we’re just like, oh yeah. Oh now he claps.
(そうなの。一方で下の子のマイカは、初めて手をパチパチした時も冷静に見ちゃうの)
【Jun】Oh, he’s crawling now. It’s a little sad. But you know I think with us, last year, you know, people were telling us, you know, two under two, it’s going to be tough. You know, right now, Ruka is two and a half years old. Maika is a year old, but a lot of parents are telling us, you know, it’s going to be hard, so you know, get yourself ready for it. And I was bracing myself, but,
(あっ、ハイハイしてる~みたいな感じだね。ちょっと寂しいね。でも僕たちの話だと、去年は多くの人から2歳以下の子供を2人育てるのは大変だって言われたよね。上の子のルカは今2歳半で、下の子のルカは1歳。たくさんの親御さんから大変だって言われてたから心構えはしていたけど)
【Akina】And it’s not really just it doesn’t end like it after two. It just like continues.
(子供が2歳になったら終わる話じゃないし、これから先も続いていく)
【Jun】And I think that’s what I realized. You know, a little bit naive on my part, was I thought that after Maika turned one, things were going to get a little bit easier. Now, of course, you know, Maika is sleeping through the night, and those sleepless nights are kind of behind us now, and we’re actually getting a little bit more sleep than we did last year. But I feel like we’re dealing with a new set of challenge just now.
(その通りで、正直子供が1歳になれば、大変さも軽減されると思っていたんだ。もちろん夜泣きは滅多にしなくなったから、その苦労は過ぎ去ったし、実際、僕たちの睡眠時間も去年より増えたけど、また新しいフェーズに足を踏み入れた感じだね)
【Akina】Yeah.
(ええ)
【Jun】That I wasn’t really anticipating. Do you feel that way?
(ホントに予想してなかったよ。そう思う?)
【Akina】I feel like, yeah, now that Maika, he’s more active and you have to, like watch over him constantly or else, like, he gets hurt.
(そうね。マイカの動きも活発になって、しっかり見守ってないと怪我をしてしまうわ)
【Jun】Yeah.
(そうだね)
【Akina】And then like, that day, like he got a little cut on his eye.
(それに、目の上を切っちゃったときもあったわよね)
【Jun】Yeah.
(あったね)
【Akina】I was like, right before his birthday party, and I was like, oh no.
(お誕生日会間近の怪我だったから、やっちゃったって思ったわ)
【Jun】Of course.
(そうだね)
【Akina】But yeah, you’re constantly like, monitoring him, making sure that he doesn’t fall.
(転ばないように常に見てないといけない大変さはあるわね)
【Jun】And because Maika is very different from Ruka, Ruka is like one of the, one of those types of kids where, like, he lets you know every second what he’s doing, and he’s lud and he’s like,
(マイカとルカはタイプが異なっていて、ルカは自分の行動を全部口に出して言うような子供で、声も大きいし)
【Akina】Very vocal.
(感情を口に出すタイプね)
【Jun】And Maika is the opposite. Very quiet, but also very adventurous and fearless, you know?
(一方でマイカは静かだけど、冒険好きで恐れ知らず)
【Akina】Yeah. He’s moving around..
(ええ、いつも動いてるわ)
【Jun】All the time. And that’s why I have to keep an eye on him all the time. And that’s what makes it hard.
(いつもね。だから常に目を離さずにいないといけない。だから難しいんだ)
【Akina】Because he’s quiet and we don’t really like, know what he’s doing.
(静かでおとなしいけど行動力はあるから、動きが読みづらいのよね)
【Jun】Yeah.
(そうだね)
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