Understanding Our Rights

Hello Everyone,  

Circling back a bit to some topics of a couple of weeks ago... 

I wrote posts about understanding who we are as individuals, finding our "nations,"  and recognizing our need for connection - the need to see and be seen.  These posts came to mind when I read this Declaration of Kids' Rights posted by Nickelodeon TV last night...



  
I think I connected the three posts with the declaration because as I read it, I imagined that one would really need to have a good sense of self and a belief that they are connected to others - their "nations" - in order to feel prepared to fully embrace these human rights.  Too often, people don't believe or understand their own self-worth, and therefore are unable to stand up for their basic human rights.  So I came back to this idea that one needs to feel confident, educated, and connected to speak out and demand their rights when they are infringed upon.  

I really liked this simple declaration of kids human rights because I believe that if we can teach children about their own rights, and instill in them the idea that the others around them deserve those very same rights regardless of skin color, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or self-identification, we will be working towards creating a community that doesn't allow violence against others, prejudice, or racially motivate acts so occur. 

It sounds like Utopia - an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.  Utopia, I suppose it is sort of an ideal, and I am not sure it would ever be 100% achievable, but I'd like to think that adults and kids can work towards it together.   After all, our constitution does talking about achieving a more perfect union...have a think on it.  

and...

Be well,

Mrs. Hempey
 

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