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.