The Rights of Children

Children have the right to have friends; otherwise they do not grow up too well.

Children have the right to live in peace.

To live in peace means to be well, to live together, to live with things that interest us, to have friends, to think about flying, to dream.

If a child does not know, she has the right to make mistakes.  It works because after she sees the problem and the mistakes she made, then she knows.

 (Borrowed from a poster created from the words of a five year old from the Diana School in Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1990:  The Hundred Languages of Children, p. 161)