![]() ![]() It’s not the same as looking for candidates to cast for television game shows. We choose those that are going to to run a first errand anyway, regardless of whether they will get filmed or not. How do you find the children? Who selects the errand that they’re assigned? To this day, we just focus on recording those first errand moments and 1 out of every 6 to 10 gets aired. With that, we started conducting simulations and learned that for every 10 errands we shoot, about one will be television material. What if we a child when they’re sent on their very first errand, without them being aware of what we’re doing? Perhaps we might find something in the footage that’s worthy of television. It all started with a thought - there has always been this widely accepted practice in Japan of asking a child to run an errand. ![]() How did the idea for Old Enough! come about? But, despite decades of filming Old Enough!, the show doesn’t always go off without a hitch (or a few tears). The show has also brought up discourse around cultural differences in parenting, as Japanese culture largely encourages nurturing children’s sense of responsibility at a young age. Since the show hit Netflix globally on March 31, conversations have taken over social media as many international viewers have discovered the show for the first time. Since 1991, Nippon TV’s reality series Old Enough!, which follows Japanese children ages 2 to 5 as they run their first-ever errands alone, has captured the joy and turmoil of the kids (not to mention their parents) ready to take their first steps toward independence. “I want to go!” Determined, she eventually goes back to finish what she started - and pulls it off. “I’ll go, Mommy!” she screams, snot dripping from her nose. When her mother offers to get ice cream for the two of them, Miro starts crying even harder. When she arrives back home, she bursts into tears. Miro wanders around, unable to find the store. But on the way home, she gets distracted and walks straight past the watch shop. She sprints down a street of her bustling town, barely stopping to chat with the shopkeepers who cheer her on, and drops the apron off with her grateful father. Two-year-old Miro has two missions: Deliver an apron to her father, a soba chef, and pick up her mother’s watch at the jeweler. ![]()
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