Ignorence, is the word for it! We are all ignorent more or less. Somehow we does´nt think it will happen to us. It is to big of a problem to handle. You think that your actions against globel warming is a tiny percent of a bigger problem and it does´nt matter in the long run, what you provide with; It is still to little. I think people feel helpless in this situation. It is to big, to complicated for us to handle, so we stck our head into the sand and pretend nothings wrong.

The second aspect is money. Money talks, as they say. The greed for money overshadows the need for humanity to other people. Everyone talk about the undeveloped countries and how dirty everything is and the mountains of garbaged they have. But does the western world wants the undeveloped countries to progress?? I don´t think so. The amount of money we have helped those countries with and nothing happens. We steal their natural resources and use the cheap laboure, leave the garbage and care less for the people in the country. The undeveloped countries contributes less then any other countries in the world to the gobal warming. So do we really want them to develope? Well..... What would it do to the world if 1 billion people get their own car? It is a cynical world we live in.

The third aspect is: Are we willing to live a simpler life? How would the society look like if we didn´t consumed as much? The world economy is built on a tradition of spending. We live and grow up in a world that is based on consuming more and more. We have a economy crises that reflects what happens when people cannot spend money anymore.

There are many aspects to why we don´t want to see. We have to find a way to live and valuate our daily life differently. We also have to reconsidered the value of spending.

My TV addiction.
Belive it or not, but I am addicted to a soap opera. I have followed it since it started in Swedish televison. None of my friends like it and thinkI´m totally mad, but I can´t stop watching. My world almost stop, every day at 17.30. No food to the children and no answerings of phones. So never call me at 17.30!! I know everything about this family, from the first wedding to the last divorce. The characters are the same but the actors have changed over the past 15 years. (which is very disturbing by the way) The actors are terrible. I can understand why I never have seen them in another movie or series. They really sucks, but somehow I JUST HAVE TO WATCH IT!!! If I would be in a gameshow this would be my topic: GLAMOUR and everything about the Forresters family.

My first TV memory was when man walked on the moon. I was only three years old and my grandmother told me: - Now, something remarkable going to happen Ing-Marie. Something that is going to change the world. Something you always going to remember
Then I saw how Amstrong were standning there with his flag. On the moon. And my grandmother was right, I have never forgotten it.

Ing-Marie H

Children and the world

I think that the most important thing for children are to experience love and respect from people around them. If they do, I think they will grow up like loving and respectfull individuals who can accept and tolerate differences around them.

The main goal for us parents should be to raise our children with care, love and respect. So the children can grow as individuals, beliving themselves and become independent human beings. I want my son to grow as a person and be a loving and caring man as he grows up. I want him to be able to see all the possibilities around him. I also think that I have a responsibility to guide my son in a world where everything is moving faster and faster, were people more and more are thinking of themselves. My task is to learn him to recognize that not all of us has a good life. There are people in the world less fortunate, and we need to show solidarity to them.

Otherwise, I think that the children of today are remarkable individuals. They adapt in a society that is moving very fast and that is changing from one day to another. It´s us that need to slow things down for the children. Do we really need everything? Do we need to go on holidays abroad every year? We are the one who sets the standards. Then we accuse our children to be spoiled, when we are the one to blame.

I think that we should all take a step back and look how we live our lives. Children need time, love , respect and care. It is how we adults distribute our time that are important for how children feel today.
Some thoughts from me.
Ing-Marie Höjer

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