Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

