Title: How to Raise - Children's Day
how to nurture - Children's Day
Text/ Proverbs 3:1-35, Ephesians 6:4
1. Introduction
May. May includes Children's Day, Mother's Day, Teacher's Day and Coming of Age Day. In this sense, May can be said to be the month of the family. Today is the 80th Children's Day, and it's Flower Sunday. The sparkling sun, blue flowers, flowers and flowers blooming on every branch, the clear sounds of birds singing, and May filled with the blue forest really resembles a child. Children's Day is held in the month of May.
However, there is a sad history behind our society's special Children's Day, which is unimaginable for today's children, who are treated like princes or princesses, regardless of the East or West.
2. Why did Children's Day happen?
At the beginning of the 19th and 20th centuries, when modern capitalism was settled after the Industrial Revolution, Europe and the United States were rapidly transforming into industrial societies, and many children were exposed to unsanitary and poor conditions in ironworks, dyeing factories, textile factories, and on the streets 10-12 a day. I suffered from overtime hard work. And children were not treated as human beings, and were the targets of adults' relentless violence, anger, and stress relief.
It was similar in our case. Children ran errands for makgeolli, cigarette errands, were often beaten, stripped of their clothes, and subjected to crimes, and lived without being treated as human beings.
3. From the beginning of the Children's Day movement to the Korean Children's Charter
In Korea, under the guidance of Sopa Bang Jeong-hwan, the Children's Day movement began in 1923 centered on the Chondogyo Boys' Department. In 1925, 300,000 children from all over the country gathered in Seoul to hold a commemorative party. In 1946, the Korean government established May 5 as Children's Day, and in 1957, on the 35th Children's Day, the Republic of Korea Children's Charter was promulgated.
Korea Children's Charter
1) Children should be respected as human beings and raised properly as members of society.
2) Children should be born strong and educated with true affection at home and in society.
3) Children should be provided with facilities and environments where they can play and study to their heart's content.
4) Children should not study or work as a burden on their body and mind.
5) Children must be rescued first in case of danger.
6) Children should not be subjected to abuse under any circumstances.
7) Hungry children should be fed. Sick children are to be treated, and children who are physically and mentally deficient are to be helped. Bad children should go to church, and orphans and wandering children should be rescued.
8) Children should be led to love nature and art, to explore science, and to respect morality.
9) Children should be raised so that they can contribute to human freedom, peace, and cultural development as good citizens
4. How will you raise them?
Our children today and 80 years ago when Bang Jeong-hwan started the Children's Day movement in 1923, the children's appearances are very different. Although there are still many beaten and starved children, those who lived in those days may feel that the purpose of the Children's Charter, promulgated in 1957, is almost being realized today. Because then, if only one day on May 5th out of 365 days a year was Children's Day, today, every day 365 days a year is Children's Day. So, it seems that even the dance theory on Children's Day is on the rise.
In the meantime, the basic structure of society has changed revolutionary. The economy, family, housing, values, lifestyle, science, and the basic social system itself have changed incomparably more than 80 years ago. Today, our society has completely changed from a society centered on grandfathers and grandmothers to a society centered on children. We are rapidly changing from an agricultural society to an industrial society and now to an information society. To be honest, the number one priority in most of our families today is children. No right?
If so, how are we going to raise our children in this time of upheaval? It is my opinion that no matter how turbulent times may be, the principle of parenting cannot be shaken. It is to nurture people who fear God and know how to love people. May is the month of soaring joy. Hallelujah!.
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