Raising Children With Roots, Rights & Responsibilities

Raising Children With Roots, Rights &

Responsibilities:

Celebrating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Written by Lori DuPont, Joanne Foley, and Annette Gagliardi

Founders of the Circle for the Child Project

Edited and designed by Julie Penshorn, Co-Director, Growing Communities for Peace

Published by University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center

and the Stanley Foundation

Copyright ? 1999 Human Rights Resource Center, University of Minnesota

The Human Rights Education Series is published by the Human Rights Resource Center at the University of Minnesota and the Stanley Foundation. The series provides resources for the ever-growing body of educators and activists working to build a culture of human rights in the United States and throughout the world.

Raising Children with Roots, Rights, & Responsibilities: Celebrating the Convention on the Rights of the Child may be reproduced without permission for educational use only. No reproductions may be sold for profit. Excerpted or adapted material from this publication must include full citation of the source. To reproduce for any other purposes, a written request must be submitted to the Human Rights Resource Center.

The Human Rights Education Series is edited by Nancy Flowers. Edited and designed by Julie Penshorn, Co-Director of Growing Communities for Peace. Illustrations by eleven-year-old Margaret Anne Gagliardi. Cover design donated by Nancy Hope.

ISBN 0-9675334-1-3

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A contribution to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004

Dedication

This book is lovingly dedicated to our children: Jesse, Jacob, Rachel, Erica, Marian, Maggie, and Maria

and to the children of the world. It is also dedicated to the memory of June Carlson.

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to acknowledge and thank the following people for their efforts in the idea, planning, production, and/or advising of this curriculum: ? The Stanley Foundation, especially Joan Winship and Jill Goldesberry for their vision, support

and partnership; ? Kristi Rudelius-Palmer for the initiation and continued support of this project; ? Growing Communities for Peace, especially Julie Penshorn, for numerous hours of help with

circle times and parent education sessions; ? Susan Moravec for editing help, suggestions and continued support; ? Nancy Flowers, Jennifer Saari, and Elizabeth Spackman for editing assistance; ? Nancy Hope for logo and cover design; ? Debra Goodlaxen for helping field test this curriculum; ? Our husbands, Steve DuPont, Alan Foley, and Timothy Gagliardi; ? Partners in Human Rights Education; ? Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights; ? University of Minnesota Human Rights Center; ? United Nation's Association of Minnesota.

Circle for the Child Project

This curriculum grew out of the Circle For The Child Project which was started by the authors in 1995 as a grass roots effort to promote the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child through education and political action. This Minnesota-based project joins a worldwide effort seeking to ensure human rights for all.

We thank all those who have been involved with this effort, including Walter Enloe, Barbara Frey, Ravi Nambiar, Don Fraser, Mary Eileen Sorenson, Mary Dooley Burns, Angele Passe, Eileen Schrecengost Lund, Caryl Wogensen, Johanna Allayne Ronnei, Melissa Weldon, Gwen Willems and many others. It is our hope that this curriculum will be a catalyst for people coming together in support of children's rights.

About the Authors

Lori DuPont: B.A. in Family Life Education and Family Social Service and a licensed Parent Educator. Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) parent educator from 1987 to 1997. Currently Lori is Family and Consumer Science teacher at Minneapolis Work Opportunity Center, an alternative senior high school.

"Being committed to our youth has always been a part of who I am, both personally and professionally. Never have I seen a single written piece so comprehensively and vividly illustrate what all youth of our world need, until the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. In solidarity, I am compelled to share this convention with others so that together we can make a difference for our youth."

Annette Gagliardi, B.A. in Child Care Occupations, M.Ed. in Adult Education and Early Childhood Education, licensed as an Early Childhood teacher and a Parent Educator. Annette has taught Minneapolis Early Childhood Family Education since 1986.

"I think we all must work together in order to make our world a better place for all children. The Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly defines my beliefs about how children should be treated worldwide. I want others to know about it and learn from it."

The authors, left to right, Joanne Foley, Annette Gagliardi, and

Lori DuPont

Joanne Foley, B.A. in Psychology and a licensed Parent Educator. Joanne is a Parent/Infant Specialist and has been a Minneapolis Early Childhood Family Education teacher since 1984.

"I became interested in the rights of children through the Partners in Human Rights Education program. Teaching parents about children's rights and responsibilities fits so well with what we teach in parenting, it just seemed natural for me to get more involved with it and develop a focus on it. It dovetails with my personal spiritual values, too."

"In life, many things influence and move us to change, grow, and create. Sometimes forces beyond what we can tangibly see push us onward to places never imagined. Onward we flow into our journey -- looking

beyond what we see to find what always has been." Lori DuPont

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