A group of child-care experts is offering help to mothers in Japan via a Canadian parent-education program aimed at building self-esteem and creating a supportive network of friends, families and experts.
Barbara O'Rourke, a director of the Nobody's Perfect program in Ontario, was in Japan last week at the invitation of a group headed by Meiji University psychology professor Naoko Misawa.
A retired public health nurse who has been involved in the program for 13 years, the 72-year-old O'Rourke spent four days training 13 Japanese child-care experts to become "facilitators" of the program. The 13 are now accredited to start their own Nobody's Perfect sessions in Japan.