The Giant Child. Children's story about the Rights of the child

With this story, parents and children can reflect on the Rights of children. According to the Declaration of the Rights of Children , 'the child must be protected against all forms of abandonment, cruelty and exploitation. The child should not be allowed to work before the appropriate minimum age ..

With this story, parents and children can reflect on the Rights of children. According to the Declaration of the Rights of Children, 'the child must be protected against all forms of abandonment, cruelty and exploitation. The child should not be allowed to work before the appropriate minimum age ... '. Guiainfantil.com offers you the story 'The giant child'.

The story. The giant child

One day a very large child arrived in a town that seemed a little special to him. All the people were very small. The boy was very hungry and he was fed.

As the boy did not find his parents in that town, he thanked for the food and was going to leave to keep looking, when he was told that what he had eaten cost a lot of money and that he would have to pay for it. But the money the boy had was not worth paying in that town.

They told him he would have to work to pay for their food. The boy replied that he did not know how to work because he was a child. They replied that he was too big to be a child and that he could work better than anyone because he was a giant.

So the child who was very obedient, went to work. As he worked a lot he became very hungry and had to eat again. And since he was very tired he had to stay there to sleep. And the next day he had to work again to pay for food and lodging.

Every day I worked more, every day I was hungrier and every day I had to pay more for food and bed. And every day I was more tired because I was a child.

The townspeople were delighted. As that giant did all the work, they had less to do each day. Instead, the children were very worried: the giant was getting thinner and sadder every day. They all brought him their snacks and the leftovers from their homes; but still the giant was still hungry. And although they told wonderful stories he did not miss the sadness.

So they decided that, so that their friend could rest, they would do the work. But since they were children, that hard work exhausted them and, since they were always working, they could not play, go to the movies or study. The parents saw that their children were tired and weak.

One day the parents discovered what was happening and decided that the giant had to be punished for letting the children do the work but when they saw the giant child's parents arrive, who were traveling the world in search of their son, they understood that they were wrong. The giant was really a boy!

That child went with his parents and the elders of that town had to return to their tasks as before. They would never force a child to work, even if it was a giant child.

Text by: Jose Luis García Sánchez and M.A. Pacheco

(This story is part of the series The Rights of the Child, stories dedicated to illustrating the principles of the decalogue of the Rights of the child proclaimed by the UN.)