Erik Ohlsson: the children Will draw an outline of dad's tattoos and headphones?

Strike me down in a coffee shop on Renstiernas gata in the part of the Södermalm district as gemenligen known as SoFo. At grannbordet two men are sitting in the upper thirties medförandes a baby stroller of the kind that the price is comparable to that of an okay used car.

the Circumstances have done that I no longer have so much contact with children. I will myself to think about small children still draw with pens and crayons, or if läsplattorna taken over completely.

now If they draw, what are the motives in this case?

was very fond of drawing. The daughter was impressively accurate with all the details. The son, more boldly expressionist. When they drew mom, dad, the kids got dad – I – always very dark hair which surprised me. In my eyes I rather dark blonde. Either I have a warped self-image or so, took the young artists of the artistic freedoms.

The small children who sleep at the cafe, can you believe that in a few years, draw from their fathers? Are all tattoos on the drawings then? And the klossiga white headphones hanging around their scrawny necks? And the cell phones which have such a devastating appeal to the young fathers allow themselves to förhäxas of the screen's rectangle, rather than to talk with each other?

omit such details in their drawings? They will probably find that our dads precious volvo tattoos are cool. The headphones with.

Sips in me the last of the Cafe Americanon, rise and go. In the door, I become overtaken by one of her father, who with a gentle smile give him the scarf I left on the back of the chair.

Erik Ohlsson is a correspondent for the Middle east, a region where the parental leave, fathers are as common as penguins.