The Real Reason You May Fail to Learn Japanese the Way to Japan

My 7-year-old's middle name is Zen.No, really, it is.We gave him the name hoping naively that it might, I don't know... infuse qualities of calm into his nature?He is, ermm, not calm. He is like a tightly coiled spring, ready to bounce off unpredictably in any direction. His spirit animal is, I think, Tigger.2020’s adventure in ‘home schooling’ rapidly led to clenched fists, hyperventilating, hiding under the desk, shouting ‘NO!’. And that was just me!All the lessons in the meaning of Zen are...