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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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.

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Raffi's blog on his visit with Pete Seeger

My Pete Seeger Spring: A visit to say thanks

by Raffi Cavoukian

On a fine spring day with trees in soft green bloom I left Manhattan
for Pete Seeger’s place... Read more

Raffi & Seeger

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On Hockey Days - released on iTunes!

Raffi's new all ages song "On Hockey Days" is now on iTunes in Canada
and the US.

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"Great song with a catchy message!"~ Hockey Canada

(Canada)

(US)

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ON HOCKEY DAYS Raffi video now on YouTube

Fun & fair play in a toe-tapping song!!

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Raffi at TEDxVictoria - Respecting Earth & Child: Connecting the dots

Raffi's "must see" TEDx talk connects Earth and Child dots with wit and grace, bridging psychology, spirit, and ecology in a moving way. Many themes here for educators, parents, and yes, beluga grads! (Study guide to come). Oh, and he sings, too!

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My Drawing Our World Project - Launches video

Watch our video which portrays the Centre for Child Honouring program called "My Drawing Our World" - A children's art program and exhibit.

This educational program invites children ages 7 – 14 to artfully express the vision and principles of Child Honouring. This is done through art-making workshops and participation with supervision and parental consent.

Displaying the children’s art in a variety of settings will show people the Child Honouring vision through the innocence, delight and honesty of children’s art.

To learn more about this program and to view the children's art work from the schools who completed this project, please visit:
http://www.childhonouring.org/mydrawingourworld.html

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