ECEC Value 2: Valuing children as inherently worthy of respcy, dignity, agency, and autonomy without conditions or rewards.
ECEC Value 2: Valuing children as inherently worthy of respect, dignity, agency, and autonomy without conditions or rewards.
🫡When did we decide that respect was something a four-year-old had to demonstrate before we extended it to them? That autonomy was a privilege for children who complied first?
📊This is not a radical idea. It is a foundational one. And it is one our systems routinely violate through behavior charts, compliance culture, and environments designed for control rather than belonging.
💯I believe children deserve respect, dignity, agency, and autonomy without conditions or rewards. Not as an ideal. As a daily practice.
🙋🏿♀️When did children have to earn dignity?
🚸Children are not worthy of dignity because they sat still, followed directions, or met a benchmark. They are worthy because they are human. Full stop.
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