{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhold-my-baby.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fep-17-VVOTa57k","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Ep 17: Japan Travel Chaos, Car Dealership Hacks & Parenting Fails Abroad","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/b3f405d2-e127-41e0-b9de-0d1d7a101e12/c2cd8964-fb9e-4c4d-88d4-891a97af5fdf/hold-20my-20baby.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Welcome back to **Hold My Baby**, the parenting podcast where we love our kids… but also expect them to survive international travel without losing their minds (or ours).\n\nIn this episode, Erik and Kira take parenting global — literally — with a chaotic **family trip to Japan**, where Eric realizes he is no longer the confident dad… he is now a confused tourist holding Google Translate like it’s a survival tool.\n\nWe get into:\n\n* Traveling internationally with kids and realizing you know NOTHING\n* Japanese snacks that look cute but might be… questionable\n* HOLD MY BABY: Why are napkins in Japan the size of a postage stamp?\n* Tesla vs gas cars (and why parents just want convenience)\n* Getting detained internationally \n* And of course… parenting through all of it without losing your mind\n\nIf you’ve ever traveled with kids and thought *“we are never doing this again”… but then immediately booked another trip*, this episode is for you."}