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Raffi Cavoukian and Sharna Olfman (Eds.). CHILD HONORING: HOW TO TURN THIS WORLD AROUND. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006.278 pp. Price: US $29.95.
Reviewed by: CHRISTINE A. WALSH*
Raffi, well known children's troubadour, has developed his child-first approach into a simple philosophy that centers our obligation to children as a way to improve the "state of the world and the health of children" (p. xxi). In creating 'A Covenant for Honoring Children' he asserts that our duty to the future generations of children is analogous to the vision articulated in the United States Declaration of Independence. This stance is championed in the collected anthology, Child Honoring: How to turn this world around, which he co-edits with Sharna Olfman, child psychologist and author of, Childhood Lost: How American Culture is Failing Our Children.
This compilation of 19 stories are an engaging, thought-provoking examination of the ways in which the creation of a world appropriate...