Today's theme is 'stamps with a message'...the title may be confusing regarding that, but after going through my collections, i somehow thought that this may fit in today's subject, so lets see what the message is all about
For the Centenary of the Argentinian Society of Pediatrics, there was a National drawing competition "the Rights of Children" and on the 4 stamps + envelope you can see drawings done from children aged 6 to 12.
Apart from all this package being so lovely and colourful, the messages they bear are very nice as well, and all talk about the rights of boys and girls like 'no violence to children' 'the right of all children is to have fun' and as well as that children have the right to be loved and to be able to freely play...the envelope says that 'playing equals to being happy'...and i think that this last thing is something that many children do not experience nowadays, being prisoners of the modern technology, spending their time in front of the TV, computers, XBoxes, Nintendos and such...that seems to be their way of having fun and playing together...not going out in the nature, running, playing sports and games....when i was a child, we didnt have computers and our social life was not on Facebook, but it was in the backyards or in the streets in front of our houses, and we always found ways of how to entertain ourselves, with all sorts of games we could invent....esp. during the summer holidays, spending our days outside, and once the sun would set down, all of a sudden you could hear hundreds of mothers', fathers' and grandparents' voices from all around calling their children to come home coz it is dark already...the children enjoying being outside rarely responded to this at first instance, so all this calling out would usually go on and on for quite some time...and when we would come back home, we would be tired of playing, but our hearts and lungs would be full and we would be really happy, going to sleep and thinking what are we going to play the next day...I think that many children nowadays are deprived from these feelings, which is really a pity, coz you are a child only once...well, you know the story of the modern world :)
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A lovely post, Ana. I agree with your comments entirely. However my computer/facebook mad grandson is also a junior surfing champion (and not on the internet)
ReplyDeleteheh i was checking to see if anyone has posted this - now i have to see if i have anything else to offer..! xD
ReplyDeleteGreat post Ana, the cover and stamp illustrations are lovely. Your post made me think of the children living in war zones or refugee camps who are missing their childhoods.
ReplyDeleteBob! Congrats about your grandson! It is always a pleasure to hear about young people being engaged in physical or brainstorming activities!
ReplyDeleteAgi...whoops...sorry =/ So I guess we got the same cover from the same person for the same RR on the forum :D
Lisa - My thoughts exactly! I just didnt want to keep on writing about all of it here, coz this subject is infinite and there are so many cases in the outside world where children are deprived from something as precious as their childhood!
It seems like the only way most children play outside is on competitive sports teams.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really great theme for stamps. I'm slightly surprised they didn't include education/literacy but that doesn't go too well with fun. :)
ReplyDeleteso many children have their time micro managed by activities that they never have the chance to daydream or just get creative. which is sad.
ReplyDeleteExcellent post Ana! I especially love the bright vibrant colors of the stamps you chose!
ReplyDeleteThe kids drawings on the stamps are pretty nice. Very colourful and happy.
ReplyDeleteThe first stamp with the child crying has me almost crying too. these are good messages. thank you for participating!
ReplyDeleteIt was a good idea to get the children to draw the message, they really get the message across is such a vibrant way. I feel sad that children today are not let loose to roam and play. But then perhaps we always think in whichever decade we were children was the perfect one.
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