All around the world, Children’s Day is a reminder of our commitments to keep children safe and create the best possible conditions for them to grow, develop and flourish. An important but often neglected factor in our efforts to do so is the idea of respect.
All around the world, Children’s Day is a reminder of our commitments to keep children safe and create the best possible conditions for them to grow, develop and flourish.
However, child development studies show that young children are actively making sense of the world around them by observing, learning from activities and interacting with others. The early years, in particular, are critical foundational years for their physical and mental health, emotional security, identity formation and competencies development.
For instance, a two-year-old who can’t sit still for fifteen minutes is not trying to be defiant on purpose. His ability to focus is not yet developed, and his impulse control is poor. Similarly, there are things we do to humiliate children under the pretext of “discipline” — such as the recent case of the mother who made her child kneel in a food court for an hour as punishment, or when we punish children by forcing them to stand facing a wall or sit inside a hula hoop.
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