NORWEGIAN PARENTS

Norwegians are usually very tolerant when it comes to "accidents" that happen in the kindergarten. Be it injuries, wet or dirty kids and other things. They don't want their children to be limited by weather, by too many restrictive precautions and so on. Norwegians themselves allow their kids to do things I was never allowed to do when I was little... or at least my parents told me off when I tried... "Don't jump in the puddle! Why are you crawling in the mud? You'll be dirty! (To be fair to my mum and dad, we didn't have the fantastic gummy overalls kids have here)... Don't climb there, you'll fall down!"

SO WHAT?! ... These parents also know that being allowed to do more things is followed by some "risks". And I like this approach.

I was working at toddlers'. We stayed outside. It wasn't too cold, so our babies were dressed in normal cotton trousers and some jacket, waiting to be picked by their parents. There is one boy, who tends to escape from our view quite often. I knew he was playing somewhere at the shed and since I could see him, I didn't pay special attention to him. His mom came. I took her to show her where XX was. When we came there, he was all wet, sitting in the biggest puddle, happily playing with the water. I apologized it was my fault. She was amazing. "No worries," she said "I know him. He loves water and he had fun. The clothes can be changed.". I wonder how it would be in Czech... maybe the same, maybe different... What do you think?