A mother that moved to Sweden and who takes her child to the local kindergarten shared her first impressions, “The matter of sleep is solved in different ways. In one kindergarten, the kids that want to sleep, can sleep on mattresses, and those who don’t want to sleep, don’t have to. In other kindergartens, the smallest children are dressed up and taken outside in big strollers on the porch and they slept there, even in winter. I guess this is good for their health. In fact, the Swedes have their own version of what is right and what is wrong.”

Children that are one year old can already go to kindergarten and there are no requirements for them at all: they don’t need to be able to speak, or use the potty, because at this age, many children are just learning to walk. The kindergarten teachers are mostly female, but sometimes there are men who work there. These men are totally okay with changing diapers, feeding, and changing babies’ clothes.