TOKYO —

Fuji Television’s new drama “Monster Parents” casts Ryoko Yonekura, 32, as a lawyer who fights parents who make outrageous requests to schools.

Yonekura said, “In the drama, I will experience a lot of issues concerning children. It’s a good opportunity for everyone to think of what is good for children.”

The drama will be aired from July 1 on the Fuji network.

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  medievaltimes at 09:19 AM JST - 22nd May

  Not sure exactly, but it seems to me that Japanese parents are extremely casual about raising their children. Parents expect teachers to not only teach their kids but also act as a parent to them.

  From what I have seen, fathers are pretty much non-existant in their kids lives.

  I have also seen a lot of physical beating in the place of structured non-violent discipline. There seems to be a lot of slapping and head hitting.

  I thought parents were supposed to parent and teachers were supposed to teach.

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  KyouNoNippon at 12:58 PM JST - 22nd May

  I am definitely tuning into this one.

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  conqueror_of_Uranus at 04:12 PM JST - 22nd May

  -Medievaltimes

  There is also the opposite extreme.

  Parents, Mothers particularly, who through boredom or a desire to impose their dreams and aspirations onto the child become over protective and in denial of any faults their child may have.

  Such mothers refuse to accept that their child is in any way inferior to another and is never at fault. This is usually coupled with extreme pressure to excel academically and verbal, physical violence.

  The result is an adult who has not had the chance to develop independantly and is socially mal-adapted.

  A-la, mommy's boys who still have their mothers cook, clean, and do their laundry even after moving out of home and getting a job. In fact, in more than half the cases, the mother insists on doing so. Such mothers are dreaded by any future wife who may become the target of "Monster Mom". Because, no-one knows what is good for dear little Takashi-kun like his mother does, eh?

  One of my female friends who was recently married literaly burst in tears after a few drinks at a BBQ party I held. She was completely at ends with her mother in-law over not cooking for her son exactly like mother used to. She was told that there is a decided menu for every day of the week, and for her husband's entire life, he has never gone against that schedule.

  The nagging and subtle insults where stressing her out to her wits end. She confessed that she dreams of killing the mother in law, stealing the family fortune and escaping to Indonesia with her husband.

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  OssanULTRA at 01:51 AM JST - 23rd May

  Yonekura Ryouko is very hot.

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  smithinjapan at 05:48 PM JST - 23rd May

  Do any of you know what these 'monster parents' actually are?? They are insane in terms of what they expect a school/teachers to do in lieu of their extremely poor parenting skills. One guy I worked with a school a while back had to get up at 5 a.m. and go to the school when only the security guard was there to call a few of his class' students to make sure they were awake, then check again half an hour later to make DOUBLE sure and that they were ready to leave, etc. If he didn't call, the child would show up late and the parent would ream out the teacher for it. Meanwhile, she is a stay at home mom, but the kid just didn't like listening to his mother, and she stopped caring. She also demanded said teacher watch over her kid during his club (of which the teacher was not the coach), and if the kid ever had a scratch on him the mother went ballistic.

  Anyway, that's only one case. The teacher in question ended up taking a semester 'mental leave', at which point the VP had to do the calling to wake up the one boy (the other parents let off a bit).

  I won't watch the drama, but I'm glad the subject is being touched upon, as it is a sick example of abuse of the system.

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