Take Action
Those who want to join the Child Honouring movement often ask
"What can I do?"
There's much to do - and infinite ways to help!
Child Honouring is a children-first way to sustainability.
As a COMPASSION REVOLUTION, it calls for RESPECT
from the start of life
as the best way to develop humane and sustainable
Peacemaking Cultures
- to create a world fit for children.
Respect is the key "partnership value" for creating the "Earth community"
that our global survival requires.
In our relations with children, respect speaks volumes.
In thoughts, words, and deeds, let us model the peace we seek in the world.
As an evolutionary step for
our species, Child Honouring connects the dots
between the way we regard and treat children and the society this creates.
To thrive, we need family-friendly economies and Earth-friendly policies.
In accord with the UN's Convention
on Rights of the Child ,
the Child Honouring
action agenda to systemically Turn This
World Around,
highlights 3
compassionate actions that benefit person,
culture and planet.
There are many things we all can do for a child-honouring world.
These 3 actions test your commitment to respecting the very young.
- 1. Paper Change
- Change from using conventional paper to 'chlorine-free' paper,
made of pulp bleached without chlorine. - The benign paper choice is 100%PCW recycled PCF: this means it contains
100% Post-Consumer recycled material that is bleached chlorine free.
Benefits-
climate change friendly: saves forests, uses 95% less water,
saves energy and costs by preventing hazardous chemical pollution. - Help turn our offices, schools and homes into chlorine-free paper zones!
Let's detox the air, water and soil AND remove one source of dioxins in breast milk. - Find the 100% PCW recycled PCF chlorine-free paper source nearest to you.
- 2. Nonviolence
- Nonviolence is a key child honouring principle.
Hitting children, in any form, is harmful, hurtful, and unacceptable.
Embrace the physicians' oath FIRST, DO NO HARM as your daily mantra.
Ask your faith leader to call for an end to corporal punishment.
Ask the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu to engage religious leaders
on this key developmental issue. - 3. Corporate Respect
- Ban marketing to kids. It's wrong to exploit innocence for money.
Children are not for sale - they need to connect with nature,
not with corporate logos. Act for a commercial-free childhood! - Visit Commercial Alert and Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood