You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Forget not the sheer joy of being a kid, remember how to play and laugh over nothing at all. For childhood fades all to soon, and for some it barely makes an appearance. Millions of children around the world are forced to work, enslaved, beaten and abused, cry themselves to sleep at night from hunger, and yet childhood remains something we all take for granted.
The right to play is the right of a child most taken for granted, and we must work to see that all children around the world, are able to play freely. Encourage children to use their imaginations and play, to run and jump, to build castles in the sand and forts in the backyard. Life is an adventure, and for a child the journey should be memorable.
