Mama Haha no Kokoro-e - Ch. 2

[MangaDex]

 

[Haezer]

Inb4 she build a company named Lego

 

[aleth]

This manga brings me healing.

 

[Saon]

Nice, another one! Thank you for translations!

 

[Hcoregamer]

I love this manga, it’s surprisingly good.

 

[Sakidornis]

And thus this chain of events led to the creation of the most dangerous---most diabolical trapping weapon that the otherworlders have ever seen... The Lego blocks

 

[DlolFace]

I was wondering why does the girl has the same face style as "This Manga" and yeah... Same artist, tho different author

 

[pandatime]

she went from worrying about can i rly manage a store into
Ofc i can for this smile
real quicklol

 

[Pokeroots]

What happened to chapter 1?

 

[TheBigMonk]

What happened to chapter 1?

It might've been removed because of the first page; it was the SL group's page combined with the manga's first page making one really tall image. If that was the issue(it might've been since this chapter doesn't have that problem), they'll need to re-upload it.

 

[Kimochi-kun]

she went from worrying about can i rly manage a store into
Ofc i can for this smile
real quicklol

I heard that parents gets ridiculously potent body-enhancement and mana amplification buff cast upon them when they are doing things for those they consider their child.

 

[blackLuna]

Anyone else bothered by the whole nonsense of there being almost no children's stuff?

If you've ever had to so much as look after a child, for any object the child might use, the first thing which comes to mind, along with size, is safety.

I can easily excuse it with the tableware (chopsticks were/are most commonly made of wood and don't exactly change much for a child's version, whereas Western cutlery can change a great deal). And East Asians often equate dishes to china/ceramic (in the Western world, wood and light metal, such as tin or copper, were more common; heck, stale bread was often used as a dish by itself — thus the exceedingly late appearance of a term for food served on/in bread, "sandwich" circa 1762). So that one seems to be a cultural disconnect (easy for the uninitiated to miss).

As for toys, they were most often made of what ever was lying around, but were also deliberately made of better material for children of the upper classes. And, as most things of the pre-industrial world, they were made to order, so to speak.

The toy blocks she "invents" are first documented when mentioned with respect to education in 1594 and again by John Locke ("Thoughts Concerning Education," 1693). As for books, books as a whole were historically very, very expensive, but the first known children's book came out in 1658, not that long after printed books became commonplace (basically, the book becomes relatively common, and then, boom, the first children's book comes out).

Stuffed animals are an interesting one — known references go back to at least 1835, but stuffed toys as a whole, such as rag dolls, go back to at least the Roman period (textiles, especially stuffed textiles, rarely survive very long outside of extremely dry locations — deserts, basically — so they almost certainly predate that by a whole lot). Not only would toys frequently be passed from child to child until worn completely ragged, discarding or burning items of the sick likely to hold things predates germ-theory by centuries at least (more like millennia; they didn't know what was causing illness, but they did spot some correlations, maybe thought malevolent spirits inside the items were the culprit, that sort of thing). Just to complicate matters, dolls are also frequently ritual objects, so whether they're labelled "ritual object" or "toy" is often more a function of the setting of discovery than anything else.

On the flip side, jigsaw puzzles were only invented around 1760 — they were initially used to teach geography (you can easily guess what they depicted). Mechanical puzzles, however, date to at least the 3rd century BC — so puzzle toys themselves are ancient, but what is today regarded as their most basic form is only early modern.

 

[Fushiginiku]

Anyone else bothered by the whole nonsense of there being almost no children's stuff?

If you've ever had to so much as look after a child, for any object the child might use, the first thing which comes to mind, along with size, is safety.

I can easily excuse it with the tableware (chopsticks were/are most commonly made of wood and don't exactly change much for a child's version, whereas Western cutlery can change a great deal). And East Asians often equate dishes to china/ceramic (in the Western world, wood and light metal, such as tin or copper, were more common; heck, stale bread was often used as a dish by itself — thus the exceedingly late appearance of a term for food served on/in bread, "sandwich" circa 1762). So that one seems to be a cultural disconnect (easy for the uninitiated to miss).

As for toys, they were most often made of what ever was lying around, but were also deliberately made of better material for children of the upper classes. And, as most things of the pre-industrial world, they were made to order, so to speak.

The toy blocks she "invents" are first documented when mentioned with respect to education in 1594 and again by John Locke ("Thoughts Concerning Education," 1693). As for books, books as a whole were historically very, very expensive, but the first known children's book came out in 1658, not that long after printed books became commonplace (basically, the book becomes relatively common, and then, boom, the first children's books come out).

Stuffed animals are an interesting one — known references go back to at least 1835, but stuffed toys as a whole, such as rag dolls, go back to at least the Roman period (textiles, especially stuffed textiles, rarely survive very long outside of extremely dry locations — deserts, basically — so they almost certainly predate that by a whole lot). Not only would toys frequently be passed from child to child until worn completely ragged, discarding or burning items of the sick likely to hold things predates germ-theory by centuries at least (more like millennia; they didn't know what was causing illness, but they did spot some correlations, maybe thought malevolent spirits inside the items were the culprit, that sort of thing). Just to complicate matters, dolls are also frequently ritual objects, so whether they're labelled "ritual object" or "toy" is often more a function of the setting of discovery than anything else.

On the flip side, jigsaw puzzles were only invented around 1760 — they were initially used to teach geography (you can easily guess what they depicted). Mechanical puzzles, however, date to at least the 3rd century BC — so puzzle toys themselves are ancient, but what is today regarded as their most basic form is only early modern.

I was eye-rolling hard at that. The earliest examples of suspected children's toys come from neolithic excavations. There's also childhood toys among the grave goods found in King Tut's tomb, such as a spinning top and a toy duck.

 

[Fushiginiku]

I was wondering why does the girl has the same face style as "This Manga" and yeah... Same artist, tho different author

Not just her. The ML (presumably) is a dark-haired version of Prince Julius.

 

[cjellis1227]

This is fucking adorable. I love doting parent mangas.

 

[riflow]

I adore how much she loves her kiddo and how thrilled he is to have her.

It hurts my heart that his dad left his kid be in such a situation for so long though

 

[yun1que]

Anyone else bothered by the whole nonsense of there being almost no children's stuff?

If you've ever had to so much as look after a child, for any object the child might use, the first thing which comes to mind, along with size, is safety.

I can easily excuse it with the tableware (chopsticks were/are most commonly made of wood and don't exactly change much for a child's version, whereas Western cutlery can change a great deal). And East Asians often equate dishes to china/ceramic (in the Western world, wood and light metal, such as tin or copper, were more common; heck, stale bread was often used as a dish by itself — thus the exceedingly late appearance of a term for food served on/in bread, "sandwich" circa 1762). So that one seems to be a cultural disconnect (easy for the uninitiated to miss).

As for toys, they were most often made of what ever was lying around, but were also deliberately made of better material for children of the upper classes. And, as most things of the pre-industrial world, they were made to order, so to speak.

The toy blocks she "invents" are first documented when mentioned with respect to education in 1594 and again by John Locke ("Thoughts Concerning Education," 1693). As for books, books as a whole were historically very, very expensive, but the first known children's book came out in 1658, not that long after printed books became commonplace (basically, the book becomes relatively common, and then, boom, the first children's books come out).

Stuffed animals are an interesting one — known references go back to at least 1835, but stuffed toys as a whole, such as rag dolls, go back to at least the Roman period (textiles, especially stuffed textiles, rarely survive very long outside of extremely dry locations — deserts, basically — so they almost certainly predate that by a whole lot). Not only would toys frequently be passed from child to child until worn completely ragged, discarding or burning items of the sick likely to hold things predates germ-theory by centuries at least (more like millennia; they didn't know what was causing illness, but they did spot some correlations, maybe thought malevolent spirits inside the items were the culprit, that sort of thing). Just to complicate matters, dolls are also frequently ritual objects, so whether they're labelled "ritual object" or "toy" is often more a function of the setting of discovery than anything else.

On the flip side, jigsaw puzzles were only invented around 1760 — they were initially used to teach geography (you can easily guess what they depicted). Mechanical puzzles, however, date to at least the 3rd century BC — so puzzle toys themselves are ancient, but what is today regarded as their most basic form is only early modern.

I like this fun fact. Cheers

 

[Kaarme]

Anyone else bothered by the whole nonsense of there being almost no children's stuff?

It's the bread and butter of isekai to have the MC introduce "new" stuff into the new world. More often than not it's stuff the world should already have. I don't know if it's because the web/light novel authors have lacking education and do no research or simply because they couldn't care less and the Japanese audience doesn't care either. Of course there are some exceptions, like always, and in the end it's only a portion of isekai where inventions play any role.

 

[blackLuna]

I was eye-rolling hard at that. The earliest examples of suspected children's toys come from neolithic excavations. There's also childhood toys among the grave goods found in King Tut's tomb, such as a spinning top and a toy duck.

Actually, the big problem with toys in archæology is differentiating them from "ritual objects" — archæologists normally assume the latter outside of settlements and children's graves (how else are they to differentiate when the objects themselves are identical?). This tendency is most prominent with dolls, but is also notable with other figurines. There also were and are objects used for games by both children and adults, such as polygonal tops (often used for gambling) and board games. In a similar vein, toys such as wooden blocks were historically and pre-historically made from scrap material.

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It's the bread and butter of isekai to have the MC introduce "new" stuff into the new world. More often than not it's stuff the world should already have.

I think it's more the author and public at large not giving a damn about the past. Or common sense.

Most toys were basically scrap material made safe (so the kid/s can play with them without giving the adults a heart-attack). Moreover, the setting appears to be equivalent to the late 18th or early 19th century. So the absurdity of the supposed absence is very glaring; fortunately, the story itself doesn't seem to focus too much on introducing modern stuff — the enjoyment is salvaged!

Spoiler: Brief rant about "isekai invention" — feel free to skip

"Invention" is handled even worse when the isekai'ed individual "introduces" things which the author assumes to be from East Asia only — the worst examples, both horribly common, are rice and abaci. (East Asian rice was the first of four independent domestications of rices; the Romans knew and cultivated the next two, while the fourth is from North America. As for abaci, East Asia was the last Afro-Eurasian civilization to invent/adopt it (which is unclear), although they did perfect its form by reducing friction in the device.) Another example is the glass pen, which many authors deem superior to quill or nib-type pens (having used all of these — as well as reed pens, styli, and brushes — I have to say that the glass pen is over-rated… and that the authors clearly have never used traditional writing implements, except maybe some very minor brushwork).

The few good examples I know are stories where the technology is obviously far more advanced or needs to be recast for the setting's technology/resources, like Madougushi Dahliya wa Utsumukanai, or where the invention is something like double-entry accounting — not exactly an obvious thing to do, despite its simplicity.

Unfortunately, there's also a lot of "East Asian ideas/customs are inherently superior" (rather than simply preferred, which is a far better and more respectable way to handle it — and there are plenty of stories which go this route, Dahliya included); food aside (to which I say, de gustibus non disputandum est), family registers are by far the most common offender — and a source for a slew of issues for modern East Asia. (Writing systems are another one… Hint: any syllabically-based system will be far less flexible and lack applicability for other languages, especially more distant languages.)

Why can't they show this pride towards things like canal technology, lacquer, silk, porcelain, and other things which they either invented or perfected — East Asian inventions aren't limited to paper. Most East Asian authors of light fiction barely mention any of these accomplishments!