I have not had time to close the discussion on the positive things grow where I grew up with me. There is not much to add but I did not say anything about the part, perhaps most important of all - freedom. I've always felt and have always been very free. It was not in the habit of parents bring their children here and there in the car, but who wanted to go somewhere went biking in the summer or this winter.
I do not remember me ever felt limited as a child. Already five years I was out playing all day, I was small expenditure in the supermarket near his home and went to the kiosk to buy sweets alone on Saturday. Of course there was a limit, an area that was mine and not to leave, the park of the building where I lived, the forest behind the house and the trail of abandoned military planes. Basta. I could only go further in the company of brothers and some friends / a larger. But the area was big enough for the beautiful game: cycling, kurragömma (hide), other sports such as football, skiing, skating etc.. There was enough space to always have something new to discover, for a little adventure in the woods, to build that little house hidden in a tree. I went out in the morning and came home only to eat. After eight o'clock at night I could not go out.
That area was my logically extended over the years, and also the time to return to the nest. =) But since I was 10-12 years in practice I could go anywhere I wanted. To go for a swim in the summer there were about 10 km and they almost always did on bike, partly because our parents were working normally. Just a swim it was time to go it alone.
Sometimes we were biking for hours and hours just for fun. A bit 'of water and some sandwiches in the backpack and go! Back in the evening.
I was part of a group of six girls were doing gymnastics competitions and summer trips we were always together. Every year since I was 12 we went to a stuga us. 20 km cycling. We were there a week to swim and do laps in the woods, sauna and chatting until morning. No one who helped us with nothing, no phone, no phone. Once or twice they were parents to check that everything was ok, but the rest of the time we were free to do what we wanted and also responsible stuga and for ourselves. I do not remember there was never any question that we could not solve by themselves. There were small things like the time we had to ride a bike and return to the nearest village (that is six miles) to buy the candy because we had forgotten the other at home before leaving. That was just the nearest town in the area where I took these photos !
For even greater, from about 15 years, I was really all I wanted. Sometimes I came home at seven in the morning and left home at five o'clock in the morning to go fishing or who knows what ...
I must add one thing. I was a very quiet child. I was not drinking as did the large number of classmates, I did not much trouble, maybe some history with boys sometimes, but I (we) really be trusted. I know my knew this and that this is the reason why they gave me all this freedom, but they are also convinced that is the freedom that I had made me and I will become liable to be trusted.
I am grateful to have had this opportunity and I regret that my own children, for example, may not be as free as I was, not because they are not to be trusted, but because people around them is not to be trusted ... = (
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