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About Me

Location:
Mexico, Tepoztlan
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
child & adolescent specilist, Citizenship and Participation
I am:
Activist, Change Agent, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Life mentor, Philanthropist, Promoter, Social entrepreneur
Languages:
Spanish, English
My website links:
www.lajugarreta.org.mx
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  • A comment on Conversation: Should we ask kids to help us solving the real world problems? And if yes, how?

    May 4 2011: Of course, yes! The thing is that the real world problems affect to children too and because of that they have the right to express their ideas about them. Is not only a matter of their capacity to solve them, but about their right to participate. Do you know the Convention on the Children's Rights?

    Real world problems could be global warming, but also to have a safe environment to play in the neighborhood, for example. Word problems, local problems, family problems, etc. and children are aware of all that. They also are willing to help and live better. It's not true that by thinking and working on those problems children give away their childhood. It's amazing how they put so much joy in all the matters that interested them. They can clearly separate play from work. Both activities are very important for them.

    The key is to let them participate in their own ways and not to expect that their partcipation should be like ours, acting as small adults, doing the things as we adults do. Also is very important to let them decide if they want to help or not.

    I know this by experience because I've work with them on social participation projects for years. If you want to know more about this work in Mexico, you can go to: www.lajugarreta.org.mx

    Thanks for this interesting debate!!

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