Sunday, February 15, 2009

A Child-Friendly World


I recently started a program in my community called, Child-Friendly Valley in which I visit local businesses and share how they can become more child-friendly in various ways. As a mother of four, there are many times in which I notice that bathrooms, for example, do not accommodate children. I also educate about greeting and treating children respectfully like adults in local businesses. It is one of my passions to promote and educate about the rights and respect that children deserve and what better way than to promote this in my own community?

This is one reason why we fell in love with Disney World after the first time we visited. It is like a magical world where kids are respected and honored and every where you go, there is child-sized toilets, sinks, silverware, tables and chairs. We love this about Disney and I don't know any other place on earth filled with such reverence for children.

Here is a picture of a child's sink in the bathroom at Boma, in the Animal Kingdom Lodge, which is just one of thousands of locations where kids were people too.

4 comments:

Shady Lady said...

Dayna, we were in DW about a week before you and noticed the same things. It was wonderful to have our daughter so respected with everything from bathrooms to the way people spoke to her. We are lucky that many places we visit has accomodations for children and interact with children as they do with adults. It's not everywhere, but at least weekly at our local grocery store as well as other places. I agree, we definitely need to see more of it.

Natalie said...

I feel the same way. I want a bathroom that is for the girls in our home. When we went to the mall and even our Life and Science museum here in Durham for the first time I was so excited to find child size sinks and toilets. We need more...

free thinker said...

aww. you are so sweet!

Jessica said...

The Dover Children's Museum (and IKEA!) has small potties too. Love it!
Growing up, my mother wanted to install a children's potty in the downstairs bathroom. My father overruled the idea. He didn't want to re-install a regular sized toilet 8 years later. Too bad!