Time is linked to one of the most basic questions of philosophy, and several philosophers in the course of history have discussed questions concerning time. The present paper tries to elucidate time as a phenomenon, and especially in relation to the child. To provide a historical background, the paper begins with a short retrospective survey of what certain philosophers have thought and written on the subject of time. Does time exist in itself? Or does time exist only through people's experience of it? We can pause to reflect on the thesis that time, considered from one perspective, exists through people's being-in-the-world and through their experience of the same. Within different organisations, for example the pre school, time must be regarded as being under strict chronological control, and time controls a large part of the everyday life of the pre school. This time-control influences, of course, the experience of time, and the subject experience of time can be called "subjective time", or rather - lived time.