Concept in Definition ABC

It is called childhood to the period of a person's life that ends at approximately 7 years of age, when they are about to enter the next so-called puberty.

Childhood is considered the key moment in the life of any human being since it is there where the emotional and intellectual supports of the person are formed, these being the ones that the future success or failure of the individual as an adult will depend. Think of when someone says "such a thing marked me as a boy"... Well, this is what I mean and it is something that in very few cases we can see in others stages of life such as adulthood, for example, in which the person is usually much more hardened and with more back to cope with some situations limits.

Early stimulation, didactic games and the child's closeness to pedagogical tools allow them to prepare for their start in school life, starting at the age of three or four. These activities can be carried out by the parents, or by pedagogy specialists who They can advise the parents, or delegate to these professionals the educational beginning of the little ones.

And it is because of this situation of weakness that children present, who due to their innocence do not have enough weapons to defend yourself from for example the abuse of an adult that there is always a primary interest and emphasis on protecting and fighting for rights of the child. Such is the work that many organizations non-governmental organizations, such as UNICEF, which has the support of the United Nations in its work and is for this reason, perhaps, the best known in this field.

In addition, even from this supranational body (since it is made up of different nations), the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which has ten articles, and in each of them different rights are ensured in relation to treatment, the education, health, housing, primary care, identity, among others. Like UNICEF, many other NGOs work through their networks of volunteers to focus their work on different issues related to childhood, in some of the aspects delineated by the Rights. In other words, these NGOs fight and make room for the importance of children's rights.

In many countries, moreover, there are more specific laws than the UN Declaration, which also state what other rights are inherent to children, and therefore, they should enjoy them. From these perspectives, children are subjects of rights, and for this reason not only must society ensure the rights of children but also give them a voice to express themselves in relation to them, their needs and its participation in society.

But of course, from UNICEF, no matter how good his work is, neither does man live, so the work that in this aspect of the child's parents, as well as the immediate family environment, uncles, grandparents and teachers when the child is of age school.

In recent years, the debate over the correspondence of the education fee by parents has been at the center of controversy. On many occasions, the entire education is delegated to teachers, when they are actually facilitators for children to know and apprehend the real world. However, parents are also facilitators of this same and even in much more profound and essential aspects such as values, traditions and the attitudes of the child.

A separate paragraph deserves the means of communication, since unlike what happened with the children of yesteryear, today the very close relationship that the child establishes with the television for example, sometimes they even spend more time in the company of it than with parents who may be working all day. That is why it is also necessary that in addition to the father being able to establish certain limits such as schedules to be exposed to it, the environment takes conscience of this formative role that he also exercises in many of the world's children.