When I Am Little Again and The Child's Right to Respect

When I Am Little Again and The Child's Right to Respect
by Janusz Korczak

When I Am Little Again and  The Child's Right to Respect
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Author: Janusz Korczak
Illustrator: Gizela Gawronski
Translator: E. P. Kulawiec
Foreword: Valerie Philips Parsegian
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-01-27
ISBN: 0819183075
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: University Press Of America

Book Reviews of When I Am Little Again and The Child's Right to Respect

Book Review: Back into paradise?
Summary: 5 Stars

Well, not really. Though we sometimes wish to return to childhood and have all its privileges, we forget about the difficulties children have to confront in their day-to-day life. And they are as stressing to children as our problems are to us.

Korczak is a man who understood and loved children till his death (for more information about his life, read my review on Ghetto Diary). In this book he alerts adults to children's lack of power when confronting the world. How to deal with day-to-day fears, novelties, anxieties, and oppressing teachers?

The book reminds me of a famous quote by Pablo Picasso: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." It is our responsibility to let children grow up in a healthy creative environment, and this can be done only by respecting and understanding children's feelings. This is what this book teaches us.

Summary of When I Am Little Again and The Child's Right to Respect

These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together. Two prominent themes in his writing are the exploration of the place of children in an adult world and the examination of the treatment and regard children are accorded in that world. In his second book, Korczak spells out his 'Magna Charta Libertatis' in defense of the child's right to respect, right to be him or herself, and, most importantly, right to respect for the strenuous effort expended in the process of 'growing up.'

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