"We're thirsty. Also, the sun is still shining."
Henriette Jonassen was having trouble putting her twin boys to bed due to the long summer days in Norway, so she tried putting them in different rooms, which one of her friends had suggested. Jonassen had her doubts, so she decided to film the experiment in order to show her friend the results.
Turns out, the boys agreed that it was a terrible idea. So much so, that they shared their thoughts on the matter every several seconds.
I don't know how much trouble she was having with the boys in the same room, but unless they were starting fires and tattooing each other, it's hard to imagine it being any worse.
When she posted the time-lapse video to her Facebook wall, people started sharing it, and it quickly went viral, getting over 600,000 views in a week. Most people found it funny. Others decided to be hurtful dicks, calling Jonassen a terrible mother and suggesting she try hitting her kids. A point she addressed on her blog:
"I live in Norway, and if we hit our kids we lose them. Thank god for that! I live in a peaceful country with low crime, and I love it here. Many of the people commenting on my youtube video said that they are spanking/hitting their children. They also said that they were spanked in their childhood, and that it didn’t affect them. Well, is that really true? It make them hurt their own children, because they grew up that way themselves. It’s wrong. But go ahead, treat your children however you want, that’s not my concern.
Jonassen says the boys are now back to "sleeping" in the same room, and both usually wind up in her bed at some point in the night. She says she's fine with that, which is good, because it looks like she doesn't have much of a choice.
(by Jonathan Corbett)