Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

It was a July afternoon in 2011 when a car bomb exploded just a few blocks from Robert Ullmann's office. Because it was the summer, only two employees from Kanvas, his nonprofit that manages 64 child care programs around Norway, were at their desks on the third floor of a narrow, nondescript building in central Oslo. Although the floor-to-ceiling glass windows shattered when the bomb exploded at 3:25 p.m., both members of his team were unhurt.

When I arrived at Ullmann's office a few months ago to interview him about Kanvas, he led me to one of the windows that looks out over Møllergata Street...