When kindergarten teacher Sophie Kyhn-Rasmussen heads home from work, her dress is often a couple of centimeters longer than it was when she arrived in the morning.

For more than twenty years, she has welcomed a new group of students every summer, all eager and slightly nervous to start school. Over the years, she has noticed a change. In her view, children have become less prepared for what awaits them, and consequently, they pull more on her clothes.