The UN recognizes the Rights of the Boy and Girl, which can be summarized as the child has the right to be a child. In our environment, our children and all children develop and grow in a harmonious way, to become happy and healthy people, but this is not the case everywhere.
Rights major that allow the child a happy and happy childhood are: Right to life and health, to play and fun, to have an opinion, to have a family, to protection against work and child abuse, to a name and a nationality, to enjoy and know culture, food and nutrition, to live in harmony and to education
Games to recognize children's rights
A very simple game that you can do is ask your son or daughter to make a drawing on a memory nice or not. Then you show him the list of the rights of the child and questions to which right it is related that drawing. In the event that you have done it in a group, because there are several children, then each one explains the drawing and the right of the other, and the author confirms it. This is a very simple way for you to relate your own life to something that may be abstract to you.
If they don't want to draw a picture, you can ask them to cut out different images from the news, or magazines and ask them to do the same. It is good that you have the entire list of rights so that they can consult it.
Play to be someone else it's a good way to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Here we need the boys and girls to exchange their things, clothes, accessories and talk as if they were the other. It is very interesting that if there is a boy or girl with a diverse ability, blind, or in a wheelchair, for example, someone adopts that characteristic. After spending a while like this, each one explains the difficulties and advantages they have had by being someone else. With teenagers this game can also be done by giving them a card detailing the ways of life of other teenagers in other parts of the planet.
Stories to talk about children's rights
In 2014, a book The Rights of the Child written by different authors, 10 in total, and illustrated by Emilio Urberuaga. The reason for it was the 25 years celebration of the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is a beautiful book that you can share with your children from 5 years old and that will accompany them until adolescents. It is one of those books that is worth reviewing.
Get out! It is another of the stories that we recommend. The appropriate age is from 8 years and is a chronicle, in the first person, of a boy and his dog Alan. This child will visit cities, countries and continents in search of a new home.
Malala's magic pencil tells the true story of Malala Yousafzai, Kerascoët, who was a Nobel Peace Prize winner and who at the age of 11 was already an activist for the education of girls in Pakistan. This book is recommended from 5 years old. His book showed how a child, a teacher, a book and a pencil can change the world.
Every right with its violation
In this game it's about working in reverse and it is necessary to do it with a large group of children. On 10 cards is put, in each of them the right it represents and each child On a card write what would be the violation of that right. For example, the forced marriage of girls violates the right to freedom of choice.
Then another child writes the solution on the same card on the other side. In our example it would be the repeal of the laws that allow it. Thus, first we will see all the violations that are made of rights and then the solutions that children propose. You will be surprised by their common sense.