My First Errand

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Myra and toma grew up watching my first errand on utube before the show was released on net fliks. They used it to practise their japanese. Sometimes the episodes can be kind of funny though, when they are like, lossin lig oh, no, what i do? But the isn't it finding their way? If they wouldn't find their way back, i don't think they would put on net flik. So the way, goods have moved to canada, but they still wanted their children to do a first errand. I wanted to get the kid's perspective on all this, so we gave the mike to myra and to

Back in March, Netflix picked up a long running Japanese TV program based on a children’s book from the 1970s. The show is called Old Enough, but the name of the original Japanese program translates to My First Errand. Because in each episode, a child runs an errand for the very first time. Episodes are only 10 to 20 minutes long, but in that short time a toddler treats the audience to a bite-sized hero's journey.

My First Errand is a gimmicky show with hokey music and a laugh track, but it’s also rooted in a truth about Japanese society: most children are remarkably independent from a very young age -- way more independent than children in the US. In Japanese cities, fifth-graders make 85 percent of their weekday trips without a parent. And this remarkable child mobility is made possible by everything from the neighbors next door to the width of the streets.

First Errand