Man.

I love the internet.

I can find things like this.

It’s pretty cool to find things like this out there on the “web”.

Our kids love to play outside.

We have animals….lots of nature….places to play in the woods.

It’s a good place to play….and learn.

But….if you have the internet, you can sit with a tablet and watch YouTube videos all day if your parents will let you. (We don’t let them do that all day….)

That’s not a good thing.

If the TV will turn on and it’s raining or I’m tired or I can figure out some other reason to do it, I’m going to turn it on and watch instead of doing.

That’s bad.

I should be outside more with these guys….start a new habit.

Here’s the description from the YouTube video:

This wee film demonstrates why Nordic kids are the happiest and healthiest in the developed world. They get to be children (they dont start school till 6 or 7), they get to play outside even in minus 10 (with the right kit provided), their parents can afford kindergarten (its a max of £200 per month) and they have the right to be there from age 1 (so their parents aren’t desperate for them to go to school early). As a result Nordic kids excel at all the skills learned at the very start of life — communication, teamwork, problem-solving. If kids have great, attentive parents fine. If they don’t, it’s still fine in the Nordic nations – it’s not fine here. And an uneven start in life creates destructive inequality all the way through school and beyond. Thanks to the 4H Kindergarten in Bodo, Wenche Roening the Childcare Co-ordinator there and Mona Rohne of the Norwegian Consulate in Edinburgh.

I don’t know if Norway is all that great.

Maybe it is.

I’ll claim it….I’m Norwegian….but I’ve never been to Norway so I couldn’t say for sure.

Here’s another “Norway video”.

How about that…Norwegian kids have got it good.

Naughty little squirts….naughty little Norwegian kids.

Shooting a bird?

Naughty.