Feeling passionate I guess...

Excerpt from the book Child Honoring: How to Turn this World Around.

“In the multinational child, the multinational corporation has met its match: the universal child, essential human of every culture. The spirit of humanity.

Your Honor:
My people come from no single country, they are in all of them;
they come from a space and time called childhood,
the place of our common origins; they have no vote,
no way to sway their fate except with the play of their eyes,
their curiosity, their songs, their dance, and their drawings;
for centuries these people have struggled for recognition, to take their
rightful place in communities, as part of the evolving intelligence of our species.
These small and impressionable members of our human family,

Your Honor, they look up to you and the parental society
and believe you love them more than anything;
they expect you to rule in their favor;
as apprenticing adults, they are acutely sensitive to example,
they need consistency and fairness,
they are easily confounded by double standards,
hurt and demoralized by grown-up cynicism.
Do you remember how it felt to be their age, Your Honor?
The children are counting on you.

In a genuinely human court, the child would prevail.”

by Raffi Cavoukian
(Yes... THAT Raffi!)

If you want to read the book, check it out on his website

Here


direct link: http://www.raffinews.com/files/child_honouring/child_honouring.pdf