Quick Facts:
- Children’s Day is recognized on various days in many places around the world, to honor children globally.
- In India, Children’s Day is celebrated on 14 November, the birthday of the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, who was fondly called Chacha Nehru (Uncle Nehru) by the kids, emphasized the importance of giving love and affection to children, whom he saw as the bright future of India.
- He was born on 14th of November in the year 1889 to the renowned lawyer, Mr. Motilal Nehru and Swaroop Rani in the Allahabad.
- He got his later education from the England and after returning to India he actively participated in struggle for independence of India.
- He was also a great poet; some of his famous writings are ‘Glimpses of World History’, Discovery of India’ etc.
- He was really fond of children as well as roses that’s he said that children are like the buds of the garden.
- He said that children are the country’s actual strength as they would make developed society in future.
- Nehru was very particular about the progress of the Indian youth. He wanted to create responsible citizens out of young boys and girls.
- Under his regime he established several educational institutions including All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology, and Indian Institutes of Management.
- He included and highlighted the point in his five years plan that every child in India would get free and compulsory primary education.
- Children’s day is celebrated with great enthusiasm in India, many programs including cultural and fun activities are organized all over the India by Government and nongovernment organizations, schools, NGOs and private bodies
- "Adults are just outdated children" – Dr. Suess, American writer
- "All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up" – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
- "Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory of our children." – Charles R. Swindoll , author, educator and preacher.
- "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." -- Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa.
- "It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth." – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher
- "Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American author
- "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace." – Thomas Paine, English and American political activist
- "Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics.
- "A definition not found in the Dictionary. 'Not leaving': An act of trust and love, often deciphered by children." – Markus Zusak, Australian writer
- "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." – Albert Einstein
