Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/worthy-of-our-children/5018924/
In these uneasy, uncertain times it’s especially hard to lose some of our forward thinking, outspoken champions for children. Three of my professional heroes are now gone, Anita Olds, Tom Hunter, and Jim Greenman. I know we will lose others and the work will go on, but with each passing I want to integrate the essence of their contribution into our early childhood rubric. For some years now I have been citing Anita’s “children are miracles” and Jim’s “places for childhood” as central to my thinking. Because Tom’s words were often put to music and we played, planned, and did presentations together along with Deb Curtis, his voice stays in my ear as ongoing stimulus for my work.One of Tom’s quiet, yet persistent calls to action is his song, “Worthy of Our Children.” It is one of those easy zipper songs where new phrases are offered as new verses:
May the work we do
Make the world we live in
A little more worthy of our children.
May the_____ ______ _______
Make the world we live in
A little more worthy of our children.
It occurs to me (Tom often used this phrase to offer a gem of a thought) that this simple ...