Different Cops and Robbers

I was discussing the childhood game of cops and robbers with my Korean and Japanese students today. They pointed out that they didn't pretend to use guns during the game. Their game involved chasing and catching the bad guy. I explained that cops and robbers for Canadian kids usually involved both sides carrying toy guns or something representing toy guns and the kids shooting each other to death.
Later in the same class we were discussing meal time scenarios from our childhood. I explained that I would probably be on Ridalin if I was a child today and that my single mother sometimes had a difficult time keeping my brother and I in line long enough to enjoy a meal together. One of my female Japanese students discussed how in her family her father and her older sister would eat dinner apart from her and her mom. The mother would prepare all meals and the older sister and father would always get the better food that had been prepared and eat apart from the mom and the younger daughter. I thanked the student for that interesting story from her childhood and quickly moved on to another discussion topic. It took me about 15 minutes to process how sick all the angles in her family scenario were.