RAISING A MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Everyone either is or was someone’s child. Obviously. But as injustice, violence, and conflicts flare up in our world, we often forget that the perpetrators were once children who didn’t get the love, education, and security they needed in life. We sometimes forget about or turn a blind eye to children who are victims of whatever their parents, communities, or authorities have wrought.
As we think about our children, whether they are our own or they were born to someone else, somewhere else, we consider a world in which children’s bodies, minds and hearts are truly nurtured, celebrated, encouraged, and protected.
“A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.” -- Frank A. Clark.
Racism, war, inequality, discrimination, abuse, all go away if children are raised with care, respect, and love.
Check out more ideas about raising children to create a more beautiful world from these thought leaders, below.
“Children dance before they know there is anything that isn’t music.”
-- William Stafford
“Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.”
-- H. Jackson Brown
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”
-- Stacia Tauscher
“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.”
-- Jess Lair
“The word ‘education’ comes from the Latin ‘educere’ = e- (out of) + -ducere (to draw). Education is not just about putting information in. We have forgotten that it, in fact, begins in the child’s heart.”
-- Vince Gowmon
“A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”
-- Pablo Casals
“Every day, in a 100 small ways, our children ask, ‘Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter?’ Their behavior often reflects our response.”
-- L.R. Knost
“I really love being human. But some days I really wish I could be fairy.”
-- Greta, age 4
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
-- Maya Angelou
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
-- Picasso
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- Image: by Samuel Ramkalawan. “Children Hair Glow Silhouette.”
- Image: by Tobin Jones. “Lido beach.” Mogadishu, Somalia. Courtesy of AMISOM.
- Image: by Ding Yuin Shan. “I love Mario Kart.”
- Image: by hugrakka. “Hrókurinn.”
- Image: by Tom Waterhouse. “When I Grow Up, I Want To Be A Ballerina. No, An Astronomer. No, A Ballerina.”
- Image: by saw II. “Child.”
- Image: by justkids. “Bubble world.”
- Image: by Garry Knight. “Play Among Fountains.”
- Image: by Sarah Horrigan. “Fairies at the bottom of the garden.”
- Image: by Ali Eminov. “Embera Indian children at play, Panama.”
- Image: by Mathias Wennergren. “Milla 365 Finger painting.”
- Image: by Jenny Downing. “Meadowsweet.”
- Image: by Richard Ricciardi. “Childhood.”
- Image: by Krissy Venosdale. “The Magic of Spring.”
- Image: by Miika Silfverberg. “Hot day.”
