Children have rights, and adults aren’t always right.
Adultism is when adults decide how daily life and society should be, and children have to conform to those rules.
In our workshop, we’ll spend a day working together creatively to figure out how we can make our coexistence more equitable.
To do this, the young people will work in one group and the adults in another.
The young people will reflect on:
What bothers me about living with adults?
Where do I feel treated unfairly?
Not heard, not seen, not taken seriously?
What do I want from adults?
How should they behave toward children and young people—in their interactions with one another, but also with the power they have to shape society.
Meanwhile, the adults explore:
Did I experience adultism in my own childhood?
What did I wish for from adults back then?
In what ways am I also adultistic today as an adult?
What can I offer young people when it comes to being less adultistic myself and standing with them against adultism?
In the next step, children and adults present to each other what they have discovered and prepared, and together they make plans to make their shared daily lives less adultist.
We try to come up with ways to make the workshop day stick in our memories for as long as possible, and of course, there’s pizza too.
