A week ago we talked about the natural rights of children that the Italian pedagogue Gianfranco Zavalloni claimed for the little ones. Is about ten rights that remind us of the basic needs of children and that we can illustrate with drawings.
And it is that these rights that are summarized in the premise of letting children be children have several dissemination projects, from translation to all languages to illustration through these beautiful drawings that offer the same message in a different code.
The illustrations are a design by Vittorio Belli, and with their particular naive and colorful style, I think they would come in handy in many of the cabbage classrooms and in our homes to remind us what is the best way for children to enjoy their childhood in a natural way.
- Right to leisure To live moments not programmed by adults.
- Right to get dirty. To play with sand, earth, grass, leaves, water, branches and stones.
- Right to smells. To perceive the smell and to recognize the perfumes of nature.
- Right to dialogue To listen and to take the floor, to dialogue.
- Right to use hands. To nail nails, to saw, to glue, to model clay, to tie ropes, to light a fire.
- Right to a good start. To eat healthy food from birth, to drink clean water and to breathe fresh air.
- Right to the street. To play freely in the squares, to walk in the street.
- Right to the wild. To build a shelter in which to play in the forest, to have reeds in which to hide, trees to climb.
- Right to silence To hear the wind that blows, the song of the birds, the twitter of the water.
- Right to nuances. To see the sun rise and set, to see the moon and the stars at night.
I hope you liked this tour of the natural rights of enlightened children, and I propose an exercise of "naturism" and family enjoyment of these premises that, also to us, will make us return to childhood.
