Your baby accidentally grabbed a shoe from a shop, you need to return it... what do you say?

In the supermarket, your toddler drops cut fruit all over the floor then starts melting down when you try to stop him eating it, and you still have to pay for the fruit...

If you're a parent in Japan and don't speak much Japanese, such situations can leave you flustered. Luckily this phrasebook will help. It includes:

The Parent's Phrase Book covers what normal textbooks and phrasebooks don't. Open it to learn how to explain that your kid fell off the swing and bumped into another child, or you've lost your house keys, or that the toys were already broken when you arrived... Honest!

Abigail Fulbrook is a mother of two fruit-dropping children and lives in Chiba with her Japanese husband. When she's not returning stolen shoes, she's an expert English teacher and author of English books for learners.