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Tokyo Alumni Podcast Episode 23: Erika Brinley - Mother, Guru, Bilingual Education
Episode 23: Erika Brinley (ASIJ 2005)
Erika explains to Nick what a Bachelors in Science in "Family Development" is, and why she decided to pursue that major. The two discuss the difficulty of growing up bilingual, and how the pathway of being a "true bilingual" in two languages is not an easy task. Erika explains to Nick some of the most common questions she receives in regards to parenting tips, and explains to him what type of advice she provides to other parents. She explains terms like positive parenting and natural consequences, and how those terminologies are utilized in parenting. The two also discuss screen time, and how there has been a rampant uptake in the amount of screen time by children the past decade, and the potentials and dangers of increased screen time for children. Nick and Erika both grew up in bilingual households,(Nick in Japan and Erika in both the USA and Japan), and the two discuss the difficulties growing up with two languages.
Erika Brinley (ASIJ 2005)
Stay at home Mom
Erika Brinley graduated ASIJ in 2005, and attended BYU, and during her time here, she spent two years on a mission trip between her sophomore and junior year at Hokkaido Japan. She would go on to graduate from BYU with a Bachelors of Science in Family Studies with a focus in Human Development. She has always been passionate about the cognitive, physical, mental, and emotional development of human beings, and how relationships such as parent to child or husband to wife can affect these components. Upon graduating from BYU, she worked for the BYU University extension, where she was in charge of training teachers and developing curriculum for the many missionaries who were traveling to fifty-plus countries. She currently resides in New York with her husband Darin (ASIJ 2008) and her three children (with a fourth on the way). She is a full-time Mom, and also a music teacher from home, and coaching mothers around the world.
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Episode 23: Erika Brinley (ASIJ 2005)
Erika explains to Nick what a Bachelors in Science in "Family Development" is, and why she decided to pursue that major. The two discuss the difficulty of growing up bilingual, and how the pathway of being a "true bilingual" in two languages is not an easy task. Erika explains to Nick some of the most common questions she receives in regards to parenting tips, and explains to him what type of advice she provides to other parents. She explains terms like positive parenting and natural consequences, and how those terminologies are utilized in parenting. The two also discuss screen time, and how there has been a rampant uptake in the amount of screen time by children the past decade, and the potentials and dangers of increased screen time for children. Nick and Erika both grew up in bilingual households,(Nick in Japan and Erika in both the USA and Japan), and the two discuss the difficulties growing up with two languages.
Erika Brinley (ASIJ 2005)
Stay at home Mom
Erika Brinley graduated ASIJ in 2005, and attended BYU, and during her time here, she spent two years on a mission trip between her sophomore and junior year at Hokkaido Japan. She would go on to graduate from BYU with a Bachelors of Science in Family Studies with a focus in Human Development. She has always been passionate about the cognitive, physical, mental, and emotional development of human beings, and how relationships such as parent to child or husband to wife can affect these components. Upon graduating from BYU, she worked for the BYU University extension, where she was in charge of training teachers and developing curriculum for the many missionaries who were traveling to fifty-plus countries. She currently resides in New York with her husband Darin (ASIJ 2008) and her three children (with a fourth on the way). She is a full-time Mom, and also a music teacher from home, and coaching mothers around the world.