Responsibility at a distance: parents’ accounts of their children’s unaccompanied travelling

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1 2 3 4	Lena	And then I think we:: sort of (.) without remembering it specifically but I (.) would think that we at least were a bit like u:h paid attention to (.) whether he (0.7) expressed something (1.0) questions or something like that
5	Ida	Mm
6 7 8	Lena Ida	Uncertainty around anything (0.5) because n:: i:t (.) I can imagine that it was like if we (.) would try to talk about it then (.) ‘oh’ ((shakes head, gestures)) he doesn’t wonder about anything or No
9 10	Lena	((looks at Martin)) Because I can’t remember that he’s [asked questions about anything
11	Martin	[No he doesn’t ask any questions no
12	Lena	Like tha:t ((shakes head))
13	Ida	No
14	Lena	Uh: because I (.) we have jo =
15	Martin	=Don’t problematise it [or anything like that
16	Lena	[No
17	Ida	No
18 19	Lena	Because I think about like if he suddenly has to go to the toilet on the plane and so on something like that we haven’t gone through
20	Ida	No
21	Lena	But then I reckon that then he’ll go jo to the toilet
22	Martin	Yes
23	Ida	Yes (0.5) mm
24	Lena	And if he’s wondering about anything then he’ll ask jo someone
25	Ida	Yes he he
26	Martin	Mm he he mm
27	Lena	Ehe so that we haven’t sort of gone through
28	Martin	[Mm
29	Ida	[No
30	Lena:	Because he is the type that he is

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1 2	Agnes	Yeah and then it sort of starts with (.) actually before (0.5) packing the backpack (.) because the backpack is hand luggage
3	Ida	Mm
4 5 6	Agnes	U::h ‘what do you have in it’? That you say sort of ‘here it is’ because it’s also something about (2.0) let’s say one of them has an accident on the plane of one kind or another (.) spills all the soda or Mm
7 8	Agnes	‘Where are the extra clothes? What extra clothes do you have?’ And then say ‘here I put a bag of extra clothes’ (.) ‘it’s right here, it has this in it’
9	Ida	Mm
10	Agnes	‘If something happens you just pick from that’
11	Ida	[Mm
12	Lars	[Mm
13	Agnes	‘Here you have’ show sort of what it is exactly that the backpack has in it
14	Ida	Mm
15	Lars	Mm
16	Agnes	And ‘what is it’ kind of (.) and this (0.5) Elise has jo had her phone with her
17	Ida	Mm
18 19	Agnes	‘Okay then you have to remember to put it in flight mode’ so you go through the (.) the routines that will happen inside the actual plane when we’re not (.) in that hour
20	Lars	Mm
21	Ida	Yes
22	Agnes	There’s none of her legal guardians he he
23	Lars	Yes mm
24	Agnes	Mm
25 26	Lars Agnes	And then we have to hide all the biggest teddy bears and then they can pick which one to bring he he Yes and then it’s a matter of which teddy bear but maybe not ((laughs))
27	Ida	Mm
28 29	Agnes	And so I think that it’s very rare that there’s much that actually gets picked up from that backpack but it’s sort of that preparation (.) they know sort of (.) physically themselves u::h take part in really packing and planning

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1 2	Olav	But it is a bit like that with changes as well though that you’re dependent on getting someone (0.5) who (.) when they’re changing in Haugen for instance
3	Elinor	Mm
4	Ida	Mm
5	Olav	It’s not that easy to change in Haugen
6	Ida	[No
7	Olav	[I have jo taken part in that
8	Ida	Mm [mm
9	Olav	[I know that you have to walk under this thing and there it’s like
10	Ida	Yes
11 12	Olav	And there’s are a lot of people because the Haugen train (.) there’s often a lot of commuters and so on and it’s exactly then that they arrive
13	Ida	Yes
14	Olav	[So yeah
15	Elinor	[There’s plenty of time though
16	Olav	Yes
17	Elinor	On a normal schedule there’s
18	Olav	[Yes
19 20	Elinor Ida	[a lot of time (.) so you have u:m and then there’s (.) but the thing is that there is always someone who helps them Yes
21	Elinor	That’s – we found that out from the first moment
22	Ida	Yes
23	Elinor	A:nd you connected someone (.) a few times [as well when you put the children on
24 25	Olav	[Yes (.) sure you can talk to them right so if you’re going to deliver them then you have to find someone
26	Ida	Yes
27	Olav	((gesturing)) ‘Are you’, ‘are you going’ (.) right
28	Ida	Yes
29	Olav	And then you sort of get a contact

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