Bill Belew has raised 2 bi-cultural kids, now 34 and 30. And he and his wife are now parenting a 3rd, Mia, who is 8.

I like Peter Pan. I like watching the deebeedee (Ed: DVD) about Peter Pan, the lost boys, Wendy and the gang.

But then I like to watch all the Disney movies. Especially the ones about the princesses.

Yesterday I watched Anastasia. My daddy lets me watch stuff. He says it’s good for my language deebeedee mints. (Ed: developments).

When my mommy puts the deebeedees on they sound differently than when my daddy does. I think it’s a Chinese and English thing. My mommy lets me watch stuff in Chinese and my daddy lets me watch them in English.

Same story…different sounds. Doesn’t really matter to me. I get it. I know what’s going on. But Ariel sounds better when my daddy turns it on. 😎

My daddy lets me watch Anpanman on his cell phone and that’s even more different. (Ed: Japanese).

I like to watch Peter Pan. There are good guys and bad guys and little girls and little boys and flying and fighting and storytelling and and…

But I am not like Peter Pan. He sings, “I’ll never grow up….”

Not me, I wanna grow up. Not quickly, of course. But I wanna grow up.

Yesterday I did!

I jumped 3 cents and meaters. (Ed: centimeters)

That’s fun! It felt so good, I went to the park and took the big slide down for the first time! Yeah!

Me? Afraid? Nope. No Way.

I am big!

I grew up. Not like Peter Pan. We have nothing in common.

Oh, and my daddy was at the bottom ready to catch me.

Talk to Bill and others about their experiences raising bi-cultural Japanese-American kids.