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How to be a Norwegian parent: let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail
It’s 1.30pm. Nila and Arion arrive home after finishing school for the day. They let themselves in, make some food, then sit down to do homework, or practise piano, or do the housework they’ve been asked to do. Their parents won’t be home for a few hours …