Children are Miracles

03/22/2012

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

To introduce his article, "Creating a Children's Village," in the March/April 2012 issue of Exchange, Paul Roberts (one of the organizers of the International Working Forum of the Global Collaborative OnDesign for Children), selected this statement by Anita Rui Olds:

Children are miracles
Believing that every child is a miracle can transform the way we design for children’s care.
When we invite a miracle into our lives we prepare ourselves and the environment around us.
We may set out flowers or special offerings.
We may cleanse ourselves, the space, or our thoughts of everything but the love inside us.
We make it our job to create, with reverence and gratitude, a space that is worthy of a miracle!
Action follows thought.
We can choose to change.
We can choose to design spaces for miracles, not minimums.

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