Child Honouring Actions

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

More You Can Do

  • Spread the word: tell your friends and colleagues about Child Honouring.
  • Embrace Raffi's Covenant for Honouring Children - share it with everyone.
  • Cool It: Reduce greenhouse gases by choosing local products.
  • Create a TV-free zone in your home, for newborns and infants.
  • Support clean renewables: hemp & hydrogen, organic foods and clothing.
  • Vote for a living wage, environmental protection, and family-friendly policies.
  • Think of ways to honour children where you live, work and play.
  • Download and email mp3s of Raffi's peace songs Turn This World Around,
    Salaam Shalom, and Cool It (the Global Cooling Song) to all your networks...
    tell the world about Raffi, the global troubadour!
  • Refer to Child Honouring wherever possible: in conversation, essays,
    letters to the editor, emails to elected officials & to businesses.
  • On your NGO or personal website, show a link to raffinews.com
    and/or post the Covenant & Principles downloadable pdf in a visible place.
  • Conscious buying: wherever possible, purchase organic foods & fibres,
    green cleaning products, and benign paper for your printing needs.
    Think of the cost difference as a triple-bottom-line investment in a child-friendly world.
  • With your Child Honouring lens: visualize the enormous benefits to all of society in respecting the personhood of every girl & boy right from the start.
  • Join the compassionate wave that ends corporal punishment once and for all.
  • Gifts that give in many ways: the Child Honouring anthology (printed chlorine-free),
    Resisto Dancing cd and Raffi Renaissance dvd (chlorine free eco-packs)
    make Earth-friendly gifts.