Across all cultures,

we find an essential

humanity that is

most visible

in early childhood,

a playful,

intelligent,

and creative

way of being.

Early experience
     lasts a lifetime.
  It shapes our self
      and how we see others

…it also shapes
our sense of
what’s possible.

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the world’s attention
on the importance
of children’s early years.

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Covenant for Honouring Children

Child Friendly Version of the Covenant

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

Child Friendly Version of the CRC

Canadian Council of Provincial Child & Youth Advocates

Parenting Resources

Child Honouring Videos

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Imagine a new idea as vital as democracy. Now imagine helping it spread quickly throughout the world! Child Honouring is one such idea, an idea whose time has come. We invite you to be a part of the global movement that views honouring children as the best way to create sustainable, peacemaking societies.
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Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, Graca Machel are among the growing chorus of luminaries calling for a world fit for children.

The Centre for Child Honouring - on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada - is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing Child Honouring as a universal ethic, an organizing principle for societal transformation.

Child Honouring is a unique social change revolution, one with the child at its heart. It is a positive vision that stresses “the primacy of early years” as key to activating the powerful potential of our species.

Supporting the Earth Charter and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, A Covenant for Honouring Children is a poetic declaration of our duty respect children, “to honour their caring ideals as the heart of being human”.

The Child Honouring principles offer a guide for living as conscious beings. They constitute the basis for a multi-faith consensus on societal renewal.

At this critical point in human history, we invite you to join the Centre’s work to co-create a vast change in the human paradigm.