Children

Now I have to admit something quite personal. My first month in Dublin rewrote my original plans regarding the number of children I would like to have in the future... I might be considered as a too field-dependent person, but growing up in a society where it becomes more and more unusual to have three children in a family, I have been convinced so far that I would also put up with only two (or maybe only one) children in my life... However, since I am here, I have a strange feeling that I might have been wrong, because I would definitely need at least (!) three children to be satisfied as regards the number of my babies...

The reason for this might be found in the fact that here, in Dublin (or let's generalise, in Ireland) it is just natural to have at least three children in a family... Therefore, the streets are always full of baby trolleys, small and rushing baby feet, pacifiers, clumsy gestures and innocent smiles, advertising that the more children you have the happier you can be...