Start Of A Lifetime
3 years ago, I started a journey around the globe. A journey without an aeroplane, through desert, jungle and cities. On busses, trains and containerships.
A journey with the goal, to find my true calling, as I would tell my parents.
A journey to find my lifegoal by finding lifegoals of cultures all around the world. How could I determine who I wanted to be if I didn't even know all my possibilities? So 13 counties, 3 continents and 3 years later I didn't decide to study marine biology, as I thought back in Germany. I didn't train to become the carpenter my dad wanted me to be. I didn't learn how to save our planet like my mother wanted me to.
No, I decided to write a book about potty-training babies. I am 22 years young, without children of my own and living in my car. And this is the story of how I decided to help parents all around the world and why.
My name is Julia Weiss. I grew up in Hamburg, not far from the “Reeperbahn”, a redlight district known worldwide for parties and prostitution. 18-year old me decided to skip the parties my friends were into and moved into a little village on the northern sea, to count birds. I planned my journey around the globe without aeroplanes. So I left Germany with a train in the early morning of 2018 and haven't been back since. It was snowing as I crossed Poland, Russia and Mongolia the coming months but china was greeting me with the early spring sun. I coloured my hair pink and left to bike through Vietnam and Cambodia. Laos was beautiful, just like Thailand and Malaysia. But I still felt like a tourist, getting lost in a foreign land instead of finding myself within. All of that changed when I stayed with a family in Singapore, taking care of their newborn baby-girl.
After feeling lost for 20 years, I started to understand the universal language of family, of love, of parenthood. I could understand what this little person was telling me without words, I was developing, evolving and started to babysit from there, through Australia and to New Zealand. Now, don't get me wrong. I didn't decide that motherhood would be my life goal, my destination. I loved how every parent had their own way of dealing with everyday problems and the magic that lets parents overcome even the biggest roadblocks is mindblowing for me. For example, a mum in Australia, Port Headland had a special sound and used a bit of warm water on the feet of her child to potty-train it since birth. And it worked! Babies are just raw diamonds, full of potential.
So I decided to keep travelling and find every parenting method, secret and advice I could. I will welcome my child with open arms one day when it is time. But until then, follow me around the globe and learn from parents far and wide. Have you ever wondered how a Cambodian mother establish an independent sleep schedule? No? That's because our mental borders don't cross over to unknown land. Let me tell you about methods you wouldn't even consider.
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