Small kids - small problems...

Rule: The teenage years in retrospect are terrible
Exception: When you remember that special feeling of being so special!

I just received my third teenager and life did not change as much as I expected. It is clearly a big difference between girls and boys. Girls, from my experience, are unable to tidy up (with some exceptions) and leave dirty and clean clothes mixed on the floor. As well as candy wrappers. Empty cups. books, books, books.

Sometimes I cannot help myself but I "help" her to tidy up. And it has happened that she has come to senses and re-decorated her cabin, and also, during the process, been tidying up. Those days my washing basket is unexpectedly full...

Being perfectly honest

Rule: It is always best to be honest - it pays
Exception: When honesty is not what it seems like

I was watching a television show with my daughter and an American psychologist entered in order to tell about his 100%-honesty-declaration. Among the things he siad (now with his 5th wife in the audience) was that couples should start by telling their beloved about all their sexual encounters. But of course, also admitting to usage of drugs, not liking something etcetera.

The Swedes present looked with him with something of horror in their eyes. They all said that they were quite honest themselves but you cannot really say everything you think about.

And I realised that things you sometimes think, are not always true. If you are annoyed you think some things that later make you wonder about your sanity! And during a quarrell, or a boring conversation...

What is truth? Pilates old question hangs in the air.