The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids runs 5.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michi Barall (about 3.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 5.3 hours, it is shorter than 77% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Michi Barall
Michi Barall narrates 21 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 125 hours in all.
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- Athena the Brain
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
721 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids is an audiobook by Lisa Katayama: a 5.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Michi Barall, released April 21, 2026, on the Social Science and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michi Barall
- Released
- April 21, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781668654842
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids as an audiobook?
The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids runs 5.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.6 hours.
Is The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids?
The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids is narrated by Michi Barall.