Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/fostering-nonviolence-respectful-care-and-its-importance-in-raising-young-children/5024668/
All children deserve a kind, joyous and peaceful upbringing, one in which they can thrive emotionally and developmentally with confidence and authenticity. As the African-American social reformer, orator, and statesman Frederick Douglass once said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” And so it is our task to offer children a caring and loving childhood in a nurturing environment, because when children are provided with attentive and reverent care, they are able to establish trust in the world, a gift they will carry with them throughout adulthood and in dealing with the world at large.
Pikler Perspective: Respectful Relationships are a Place for us all to Begin
by Elsa Chahin (Mexico, USA) with Anna Tardos (Hungary)
A baby or young child should never be treated with anything other than absolute reverence. It is paramount to know that aggression is abuse, and all aggression is damaging and traumatic. Indeed, no human being should ever be the subject of mistreatment or force. As there are different levels of aggression, we speak here about mini-aggression, when the adult does not realize he is being violent. It is this subtler violence that can often be ignored and disregarded if one is not ...