Tick tack tick tack tick tack tick tack….

Where does the time go? In today's society, we constantly hear things like "I can not make it" and "unfortunately I can not follow, I’m in a hurry." And how often have we heard anyone say that it wanted the days had more hours. I am one of those who feel that the days were sometimes too few hours. I feel that the time just flies away, I can not do what I thought and the clock is ticking on. Tick tack tick tack.

It is not often we have time for spontaneous visits, trips or other things that not are written down in our well stocked calendars. If something unexpected suddenly turn up fails the entire planning, and there is considerable risk that it will be a "bad day" because we have not had time for everything we intended to do.

One might well wonder what makes that we have no time for various spontaneous things. A contributing factor is that we work more and more. Most people are in their jobs long into the afternoon. Once they are home they are tired and hungry. After some food and a short rest, it is soon evening and for those with family, this is the only time to socialize with them. The days just roll on.

I am sure that all have ever wished that the day would include a few more hours, or for that matter, that we would not need to sleep as much. Imagine how much more you could do if you did not need sleep! If the days had more hours or if someone invented a pill that made it possible to skip sleep I better catch up with my little son, my dog and my house. I had been able to work more hours and I had also passed by this English course gallant. Not to forget that it always would be clean and smelling freshly baked buns in the kitchen.

But unfortunately we can not do something about this time phenomenon. And the consequence of that we do not have hours to be sufficient are diseases such as gastric catarrh, and migraine. And we all recognize the expression "going into the wall".

I wonder by the way if it is not so that an hour today is less than what they were 100 years ago. Perhaps it is someone who reduces the hours of 1 second or 1 minute each year. Sure, it feels so! You can only remember how your early summer holidays felt like an eternity.

So to summarize, so we live in a society of stress. We can not find time to all we want to do and the consequence of this is in the worst case that people get sick. Can we do something about it? Of course we can! Rush down, take it easy. Just do things you want to do and most importantly, spend much time with those you love. You are going to be happy of that!

Big brother is watching you

I have thought some on the issue of "Big brother is watching you" and weighed pros and cons against each other. I'm still not entirely sure where I stand, for or against. Is it right that one can be intercepted and controlled filmed wherever you go and what you do? Of course it is right-we have nothing to hide. Or? But on the other hand I think it should be well able to do what you want without being registered and suspected of crimes as a terrorist or thief.

So, what is good to be guarded all the time? The obvious answer is that it detects crime and terrorism at an earlier stage, and large events like 9 / 11 can be prevented. Some people also feel safer with the knowledge that things are recorded and if something happens there is hopefully answers on a tape or similar. And most people are of the honest variety, and have therefore nothing to hide, so therefore it is ok to be filmed and recorded everywhere.

But still, I can only think that it feels wrong to be guarded at all times. It makes you feel suspicious even if you have not done any crime. It makes me lose faith in the whole world sometimes. Are we humans really so bad that we have to be monitored around the clock so that we will not be able to carry out any crime. What will happen to democracy and respect for one's own man? And the poor people who never do anything wrong but still be treated and guarded as if they were terrorists.

As I mentioned above I can not off-hand to decide whether I am for or against. But the world's safety most be more important than our own human ego. Or?

Let the children be children

Children in first class are only 6 years old and they are way too young to handle a grade. They do not know what is in a grade and the only right thing to do is to let it be that way.

When our children starts first grade they are small children with a very little knowledge about “the hard life” out there. We start early with tests and analyse them carefully to see how well the children are doing. Is that not enough? Is it really necessary to be a grade on the tests also? No, let the children be children. Let them play and have fun for the first years in school. Let them not be worry for grades when they just are small children. Grades can come later.

Young children always compare their test results with each other. Some of them are always getting good results and some of them are always getting bad results. Why should we strengthen this behaviour and let them compare their grade. It is bad enough that they compare results. Think of the children who are not that good, and always feel ashamed when telling how the last test went. It must feel even worse to tell the classmates that you got a bad grade.

But of course we must have some kind of control of the children in school. We can not just let them past trough school like that. We must write something about them. Not a grade but a written appreciation of some kind. And that should be shared with the parents, for when the children are in their early school years parents have a huge responsibility towards school and education.

When the schoolchildren are about 12 years old and have started the junior high it is time for grades. Now they need something to fight for, otherwise they will not see any point going to school.

So, no grades until the children have grown up and can handle them. Let the children be children for as long as possible. There is plenty of time to get grades and so on later.

What happens to our world!?

That climate change would all agree on. For many years we have known that the polar ice melts and that it gradually becoming warmer on Earth. We also know what it will lead to eventually, and we know very much why this has happened. But the big question is why we have let this happen? Although most have been aware of the great dangers of climate change, we have chosen to ignore.

The biggest reason we let it continue is that everyone thinks that it does not help if you do something by your self. We are thinking, what it helps if I do not use hairspray when all others do? And what would it helps if I sort of plastic when nobody else do it? But it does actually benefit the little that is done, although there is significant effort required in the end. We must start somewhere! And then it is best to start with yourself. What can I do to the environment will become better?

Another major reason why we actually only been watch when the environment collapses and did not do something is because we think that the worst still will not affect me. Our generation will not remain on earth when the floods destroying the world and the heat will be terrible. We only think about ourself and do not think of the people who comes after us, our children, grandchildren and so on. But it is selfish of us to think so. In the first, we do not know what will happen when we die. Maybe we will get back to Earth? And who do not want their children and grandchildren well?

It is not too late to change our life to help save our planet. Think of our grandshildren. Mayby they want to see the polarbear in real life...?

My TV life

TV and TV programs have had different significance for me through the years. When I was about 10 years old and was home alone in the afternoon I watch TV every day and knew exactly which programs was the time and how long they lasted. My absolute favourite in that time were the Cartwright brothers, a light cowboy series with the handsome Michael Landon in one of the characters.

Later, I, as "all" others, followed the popular TV series Rederiet and Tre kronor with great interest. At the school, the day after the program gone, it was just yesterday's show that was the great conversation. I think we all had a little crush on Klimax. And who can not remember the explosion at the very last episode of Tre kronor? Back then, there were not many TV channels and TV programs to choose from. It made most people watching the same series. These series were you waiting for with bated breath in the weeks, since they were constructed with an exciting final so you just had to see the next program. I do not know exactly what made me followed these series, but everyone was watching them and they contained love, humour and excitement- which a good series should contain. And of course the important exciting final.

Now, I do not watch TV as often as I did before. Maybe it is because I now have a small son and a house to take care of. But of course I look on TV! And then I like to watch Efterlyst, with the characteristic Leif GW Persson. I also like to look at 2 ½ men, and other similar comedies, They are easy to watch because they are fun and you don’t have to think that much when you see it, wich is perfect when you have a little son to focus on. You just have to think of how to laugh.

I was born in 1985 in a small community called Skåpafors. There are not many people living here, perhaps a few hundred. Everyone knows everyone and has always done it. I would describe my childhood as very secure. On our street lived apart from me and my sister, who is 2 years younger, also several other children the same age. We were always together and our parents were always together to. In the summer we were often down at the lake. We learned all swim at an early age and we were out-fishing, paddled a canoe or just played with something outside. In the winter, we were also often on the lake. Where we fished, skiing, built and played in the snow. Everything we did together. Of course, we were inside at some time also. But I can not remember that it was very often, and not as children are today. Sitting in front of the computer or TV. Cohesion among the children in Skåpafors was fine and we did what I wrote above, the most together. We played in the same football team and went in the same small school, or even in the same class. For some, this may feel like boring or irrelevant. But I must say that for me it has helped me later in life grow up to become a secure and stable individual.

I now have a son who is about 6 months and I wish, like all the other mothers and fathers, to give him the best childhood you can think of. I want him to experience what I and his dad had to do when we were little. I want him to have a chance to run around in the woods and build kojor with his friends. I want him to go ski in the winter and swim in the lake in the summer. I want him to run and fall and graze rather than that he may have a “musarm” by too much computer gambling. But above all, I want him to grow up and become a proud and secure citizens.
For that he must be the necessary commitment and interest of us parents and adults. In the first, we must show ourselves as good role models by doing the things we want the kids to do. Showing commitment so will also the children do eventually.

By today’s “stressamhälle” where parents don’t have time for anything, is not good to grow up. The adults are so busy that they do not have time with their own children in many cases. They are then feeling guilty and buy something nice to the child that they can deal with until the parents get time with them. I believe that children were better to employ themselves before “the computer time”. But now, it seems, from what I have seen, more difficult for the children to do anything themselves. They must have someone who tells them what to do. In most cases, the adults don’t have the time and instead put on a movie or a video game so the children can amuse themselves there for a while.

No, my son will have the best childhood ever! I will do whatever I can to avoid stress traps and allow him to employ himself in great extent. He will benefit from this in the future. I also hope that he will like to be out and explore the world the "hard way", through the scratches and the bruises. It is also how you learn best, I think. But of course with a loving mix of a lot hugs and words from home.