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This article presents excerpts from interviews conducted in 2007–2009 with children aged 5-10 living in a village in the Barciany Municipality, Warmińsko-Mazurskie Province. In the interviews, the children responded to questions regarding the conditions of their daily lives, ways of spending time, and sadness and joy accompanying them on a daily basis. The quoted statements have been grouped together so that they present the children’s perception of important problems of the Polish countryside.