I have a 7 year old daughter and she wants a pen friend in Japan, any ideas how i can get her one?
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hiya,\n\ntry\n\nhttp://www2.mylot.com/?ref=onetopdesigner\n\nthere are quite a few japanese on there, its like a blog like this one that you get paid for asking and answering. try it
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I know a Katie Tucker but she is at least 80 years old. I don't think she is your pen pal, she never could read very good. I imagine there are hundreds of Katie or Katy Tucker's around.◄
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I had 2 pen pals from Japan, when I was in the 7th grade of Ele. School;  then, while older--in my 40's and 50's had about 20 pen pals from all across USA! I need to write some of them right now; many of them do not have Computers and Email.---  My favorites:  postal mail, but email sure does save on POSTAGE.
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Do NOT focus on the fact that she's Japanese when buying a present. It's like assuming that since you're American you only eat fast food. \n\nFor a teacher you should find a pretty figurine, a snow globe, or something that would look good on a desk... Maybe you can get a nice pen engraved with her name or a thank you message.\n\nWhatever you get make sure to write a well thought out thank you note and wrap the gift with plenty of care.\n\nThe gift isn't actually as important as the thought behind it.
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Your daughter is not ready. Writing comes at a very specific point of development, and your daughter is completely unique from your son. This is nothing to do with the will to do it. It's to do with fine motor skills, comprehension, abstract and symbolic thinking, etc. Just continue to expose her...play games like restaurant where she gets to write the orders using squiggles. This is 'pre-writing' and is a step towards understanding print concepts. \n\nMost children start making actual letters around 4+. It doesn't matter how many other children make them at 3 or whatever. This is 100% a readiness issue.
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Hey, heres your pen, sorry i forgot to give it to. The just start talking to her. Pens are a great icebreaker!
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penpalword.com is a great site. I met my Korea PenPal on that site. Very simple and easy to use.
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Here.\nhttp://www.penpalworld.com/
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try ebay...or classifieds in japan.
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Have your teacher go on the Peace Corps website.  They can connect you with a Peace Corps Volunteer who is teaching overseas.  Your class can adopt his/her class and write back and forth to each other.  It's a fun way to learn from each other.\n\nYou can also contact pen pal organizations and just start writing to pen pals yourself.\n\nHave fun!  It's a great way to meet and learn about new people!
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Check out your local Asian community or Mosque am sure they will be able to put you in touch with someone.  We had one in my daughters primary school, it was brilliant.
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My niece is also in germany, i will check with her to se if I can give you are email address and at least you two can chat.  Blessings
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either you try out those sites where ppl are to meet and keep in touch with pen friends from all around the world... for an example, i uses friendster site at www.friendster.com... and guess what.... i get to keep in touch again with my long lost friend as i came across that they are in my another friend's list... it's so easy and it's also free... anyway, best of luck to you then...
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Don't resort to the internet for your daughter's activities. It's great that she's an avid reader - keep checking out library books for her. Check out or buy good videos, as well. You could get her some basic art supplies and she can sketch and paint. She can learn to bake bread, and cook meals, using cookbooks. She can learn to knit or do needlepoint. Get her involved with learning an instrument - piano is ideal, but a flute or violin would be great, too. If you have the financial means, hire a language tutor to teach her a different language - Spanish or Chinese would be useful choices for her future. You sound like a good parent!
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Talking about these maybe ?\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pens_and_stationery
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try www.military.com or contact your local recruiters office.  But really, do you want a pen pal, or are you a uniform chaser?  As a military wife, i'm wary of girls who just want to write to a soldier to "bring them comfort".
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First, a pen pal should usually be someone you've met or have something in common with.  Second, a twelve year old is too young for  most of the people on here, except for maybe my sister.  Third, learn to spell.  Fourth, don't curse at people on-line, it detracts from the appeal, and twelve-year-olds shouldn't curse anyways.  Fifth, if you keep asking questions like this, you're going to start getting weird messages from creepy Internet stalkers, so I'd advise that you be careful.