Writing about culturally rich family life, motherhood, education • building the future of family community @Google @WomenTechmakers Ambassador
Bangkok, Thailand
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I generally disagree with the discourse that to encourage children to read, they must entirely choose and curate their own books.
A child cannot crave a world they do not yet know exists. If we only let them choose freely, we often limit their landscape to what is comfortable, commercialized or familiar.
Our role as parents is to deliberately curate a rich collection of history, science and deep fiction that forces them to dream about what is unseen and inexperienced.
As well, read out loud to them. Read your own books alongside them. Discuss the ideas at the dinner table. You build a cultured mind by introducing them to a broader world starting with the library you build for them at home.
This study hits at the hardest, most unspoken part of intentional parenting: managing the mirror your children hold up to your own childhood.
We often demand emotional regulation from kids and praising them when they are quiet, convenient, and compliant. But forcing them to suppress feelings doesn't teach them self-control, it just teaches them how to isolate.
The truth is that you cannot coach a child through an emotional storm you haven't yet allowed yourself to feel or face from your own past.
Breaking intergenerational cycles isn't smooth or linear. It is a messy, daily practice of reparenting yourself while simultaneously protecting the psychological safety net of your kids. Emotion regulation improves with practice, and that practice starts with us.
Completely agree. Recipes teach you how to follow instructions; building a palate teaches you how to create. If you understand how a specific taste is constructed, you can emulate almost anything.
It’s less about a formula and more about developing a relationship with food. 🧵
This is why you don’t go by recipes. Make your own! I went from being insecure and inexperienced in the kitchen to confident and adventurous in < 1 year (no recipes involved).
Now, I can spontaneously cook delicious fish, pasta and rice dishes, braised leeks, soups, salads, curries, and more.
All you need: (1) confidence, (2) staple ingredients (you’ll establish them as you gain experience), (3) Claude.
I was fortunate to grow up this way. My father was a French-trained chef and my mother worked in restaurants. Our home wasn’t about rigid kid-menus; it was an immersive education in whole foods, diverse textures, and eating everything. I grew up with a resilient stomach because variety was our baseline.
It’s fascinating looking at the current hyper-optimized parenting culture, where the intense discourse around childhood allergies often intersects with highly processed options and lower food regulations. Raising my own kids now, I realize the greatest gift we can give them isn’t a sterile, optimized diet - it’s teaching them how to taste, explore, and confidently navigate different cuisines early on.
Regrettably missed this due to family duties, but this is so wonderful to see.
What makes Bangkok’s emerging AI ecosystem so magnetic isn't just the tech, it's the instinct to reject sterile corporate spaces in favor of community.
Bringing builders and leadership down to eye level is exactly how meaningful innovation takes root.
It feels entirely organic to the texture of the city. Very bullish on the future being built here 💪 🇹🇭
AI Demo Day Bangkok was an absolute whirlwind, pulled off right ahead of our governor candidate announcement! But before the main recap, I have to share a BTS story about my favorite spot: The Coffee Council (#สภากาแฟ). ☕️✨
The spark came from @KornGoThailand, who wanted to revive this concept.
Historically, 17th-century European coffee houses were "Penny Universities" where anyone could debate ideas without barriers. In Thai culture, it became morning coffee circles, bringing leadership down to eye-level for real, open listening, away from rigid rally stages.
For our event, we completely re-architected this for the next gen: switching old-school setups for modern bean bags and camp chairs right next to the stage so builders could talk tech with leadership at eye level.
Getting it done was pure fire drills. 🔥 2 days out, my team was scrambling to print signs and secure bean bags shipped from Chonburi. On-site, we realized on the day that our designated spot didn't exist! Total panic. Luckily, I’m a chronic over-packer and randomly had camping chairs in my trunk. We improvised on the fly and nailed the cozy vibe.
Funny thing: with a 3-day timeline, we couldn't actually book a coffee vendor or get permits. But it was a blessing in disguise. Th team had us covered, and honestly, I’m glad we had not just coffee cans but also soda, tea, and energy drinks.
From traditional coffee circles to an AI Council fueled by energy drinks and zero barriers. 🙌🔋
The X algorithm has been doing an effective job in showing me posts on Bangkok, although most have been on the growing tech scene. It’s definitely a different rhythm than what I experienced in the west - it’s thriving, new, exciting.
What I envision to highlight more is the organic side of Bangkok, the unseen, the unspoken, the beautiful chaos of the city I call home.
Yes Bangkok is beautiful, in its rawness, freedom of expression, its people, its deep yet carefree culture.
What an amazing place to continue to build my family.
The past year has felt more settled, but wonderfully cinematic.
Cooking long dinners at home.
Good music always playing somewhere.
Children growing quickly.
Our 6-month-old is already on his way to becoming a critic with the number of foods he’s tried and had opinions about.
A lot of conversations about culture, education, family, community and the kind of life we want to build around our children.
We recently moved to bustling, crazy, phenomenal Bangkok and I can't wait to share more of raising culturally curious children, building a meaningful family life and on food, music, art, motherhood, and creating community wherever we are.
How about that children inherently need some form of social functioning education with other kids as well as mentors and caretakers outside of their immediate family core
Duolingo, $DUOL, CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’
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I think the ultimate fertility-killer has not been secularization, or the Sexual Revolution, or really even the pill.
The primary culprit seems to have been the way 'parenting' has morphed into a kind of suite of ever-changing, high-pressure social obligations that seem to be almost 'moral' in character.
I say this because in earlier times, there was none of this business about constant sports practices, extracurriculars, SAT prep, constant doctor's visits, college funds, expensive Christmases, and on and on and on.
Children weren't considered tiny princes and princesses -- they were just kids, and you fed them, kissed them goodnight, taught them to read and to work, and otherwise left them to their own devices out in the yard or in the woods. Childhood was not some kind of a high-drama summer camp, nor was it a status symbol for public display among the parents.
Once the neurotic, consumerist, status-obsessed mentalities of the bourgeois types became mainstreamed in parenting -- and a massive avalanche of expensive, time-consuming, high-stakes 'stuff' was suddenly shoehorned onto 'parenting', people began to (somewhat rightfully) think of having kids as a kind of expensive, anxiety-inducing prison sentence.
If I had to guess, the solution to the fertility crisis is to look at parenting since the 90's as a regrettable chapter that must now end; and to return to a more casual, less obsessive kind of parenting. To relax a little.
Culture is one of the most overlooked educational tools.
I’ve spent 8 years parenting across borders with that in mind.
Now I’m building something to help families raise global, culturally fluent kids.
Follow along if you're into intentional parenting with culture and travel!
Heya, thought I’d reintroduce myself to my (currently tiny) corner of Twitter.
I’m Jaeriah, a mom, cultural education nerd and currently building an ecosystem to help families explore the world through immersive learning and travel ⤵️