/parenting-in-norway/ All Things Norway, In English Sun, 08 Sep 2024 13:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 /parenting-in-norway/#comment-995531 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:19:54 +0000 /?p=66985#comment-995531 Frihet under ansvar. Works well when parents are good examples, or the culture includes a high degree of responsibility. Watching celebrated personalities, media and politicians should give parents and everyone much concern.

]]> /parenting-in-norway/#comment-995391 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 01:47:28 +0000 /?p=66985#comment-995391 My grand parents came from Norway. They all landed in Chicago about 1920. At age 78 I took a month long tour of Norway.
One of the things I remember most was that just about everyone could speak English. At one point I found myself near to about 4 boys about 12 years old. They were just jumping up on a wall about 3 feet tall with no effort.
I said hello to them and they at once started to speak to me in English. They were so polite. We talked about the wall jumping and I complemented on there speaking. They said they took a English class in school but they had really learned it from playing computer video games. It seems most video games are in English so they really learned it so they could play the games.

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