JULY 5th 1:30 ~~~~ FIRST SUNDAYS

RSVP for JULY 5th, 1:30pm! 

RSVP to be a child/youth/family presenter 

          and/or to be an attending audience.

Ethical community has been standing up for fairness in solidarity with world wide demonstrations in a time of global pandemic:  

through Black Lives Matter and Rainbow Pride. 

     NOW       

    For "YEE's First Sundays" (at 1:30pm on July 5) 

    children, youth and families are invited to:

   create and/or witness ETHICAL EXPRESSIONS 

****    Note: TO BE INCLUDED in the formal ROSTER OF PRESENTERS,  it would be helpful to RSVP by FRIDAY.   ***** 

Our Compassionate Pen Project invites children, youth, families 

to write/draw ETHICAL EXPRESSIONS as:

a speech, pledge, poem, story, picture or song 

expressing your ideas and hopes for AMERICA in this time of protest and pandemic. 

If you create a visual item, you may send a picture in advance for inclusion in our slide show.

      Here are some prompts to get your creative juices flowing:                 

      * This event is on the weekend often celebrated as America's Birthday, so you may find it helpful to make a "birthday wish for America" -- telling us what you wish for America's future and how you think your wish can be realized.  

      * You may even tell people about a DEED your family participates in to help realize these ethical hopes.  

      * You may use a prompt like this:

          BLACK LIVES MATTER to me because.... 

          RAINBOW PRIDE is beautiful because...

      * or You may use the title of the event:

         AMERICA THE ETHICAL.....with LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL.

       

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~you may share the invitation below with others...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Young Ethical Explorers (YEE) 

FIRST SUNDAYS AT 1:30 pm

"America the Ethical...

with Liberty and Justice for ALL”

An inspirational educational forum of childrens and families' ETHICAL presentations. All ages are welcome to attend.

Register in advance for this meeting on zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsde-uqjstGtFOn6QwEQElwc5v-aRgnH5B 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

RSVP to YoungEthicalExplorers@gmail.com 

so you will be "recognized" in the zoom waiting room.

YEE, our Ethics for Children humanist Sunday School program, serves to empower youngsters in their ethical development, create life-long friendships, and stand up with care and courage for a better world. Through kindness and deed, they “bring out the best in one another, and thereby in themselves” — NYSEC founder, Felix Adler. Topics are explored through discussion, storytelling, dramatization, music, art, games, and field trips. Newcomers and visitors are always welcome!

To learn more about YEE, visit 

https://youngethicalexplorers.blogspot.com/

Home-Marches for Black Lives Matter!

#HOMEmarchesforBLM #blacklivesmatterTOchildren 

GRAND HOME-MARCHING FOR JUSTICE and FAIRNESS




Children, families, home-based activists!

Gather all your action figures, all your dolls of every color, all your stuffed animals…

Join the Young Ethical Explorers in creating Home-Marches for the black lives matter movement! With index cards or small pieces of paper, make doll sized signs with your hopes for a just and humane future!

Write “black lives matter” and “peace and justice” "may black lives thrive" and let the dolls carry the message! Bring them all together with many signs and take a picture of your in-house child-sized protests!

Share your pictures on social media! This is a way to get children involved in the essential learning about fairness and justice, while still protecting their identities. Let them be part of the movement!

Share pictures of your HOME-MARCHES with us at the email above and we will post them to show our caring collective power!  

Corona AIDS Awareness WALK

Dear Ethical Community,

Visit:  https://ny.aidswalk.net/EthicalCulture/
to sponsor Young Ethical Explorers for the AIDS WALK NYC 2020!

For many years, the Young Ethical Explorers, with sponsorship by Ethical Culture community members,  have walked the AIDS walk in Central Park with thousands of diverse walkers.

This year, we are doing it differently... and again, we are welcoming your sponsorship!

Young Ethical Explorers are making CORONA AWARENESS CROWNS and RED RIBBONS FOR WELLNESS AWARENESS.... and each student is organizing their own families to "take an awareness walk with homemade crowns and ribbons.

CORONA is a beautiful word that means
C R O W N !

Empower yourself in the face of CORONA-VIRUS with
CORONA-SAFETY PRACTICES.
Children can make CREATIVE TOOLS
TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES IN THESE PRACTICES.

CORONA-AWARENESS is CORONA-POWER! 


Through creative projects children build their placebo-power.  

Children's imaginations have the ability to support
difficult things through playful power.

Playful-Placebo-Projects like this build awareness...
Awareness cultivates their pro-active compliance with the 
wellness practices necessary in challenging times like this: 
from social-distancing to hand-washing, to mask-wearing.   

SAFTEY PRACTICES are the key for HEALTH in these Corona-times! 




Make a CORONA AWARENESS-CROWN 
...with a COVID-19 CARE-RIBBON

These corona-crowns will HUG YOUR SMART BRAIN while you  PARADE 
with "social-distancing practices" around your home or your neighborhood!

We are creating our own personal crowns!
These "CORONAS" (crowns) will hug your smart brain!


The Corona VIRUS
is named after a
crown
because of its
spikey shape.





To make the crown:
       1. Fold the paper in half lengthwise.
       2. If you want to write the word CORONA on it --
           or CORONA AWARENESS -- you can.
       3. Decorate it in special ways!

ADD A CORONA AWARENESS RIBBON TO YOUR CROWN.
An official color has not been declared,
but A WHITE RIBBON has been used by some communities.

You can make it yourself with a WHITE strip of paper. It's simple!

You can create caring messages, designs or pictures on it, if you want.

Various Awareness Ribbons are used for showing CARE for people who are affected by illnesses, and for those doctors and nurses taking care of them.  This "tradition". started in the early 1980's with the RED RIBBON for AIDS AWARENESS, and each year, millions of people use it to raise money in the June AIDS WALK NYC.

Covid19 is the illness created by CORONA VIRUS and many people are indeed suffering with this. To hold a symbol of our care for them, and for the safety of those caring for them,  you can wear a corona-awareness ribbon!

Meet the Pangolin

Pangolins have been removed from their natural habitats by PEOPLE and USED in many ways. But now, they are nearly extinct, and lead very fragile lives. 

People have sold pangolins to other people for food and medicine, and put them in situations that endanger them. People have put pangolins into crowded markets with animals it was never meant to be near. There, it seems, is where it met bats.

The bats have lived for so very long with corona and they have pretty much kept it to themselves, and been immune to them.  But the pangolin got corona from the bats... and somehow that made it easier for people to get it from pangolins.  Now, people can get corona from each other.  That is why we are all masking and social distancing.

But it all comes from something we might all be able to relate to a little bit.... 

the very common human feeling that we should be able to have whatever we want. 

We must change. 

We must honor nature's boundaries. 

There are great consequences to the way people grab from nature whatever we want. 

Meet one pangolin and its helper

Cutie-pies!

A journey through their forests to understand their lives.

All about Pangolins

How vulnerable are Pangolins in corona times?

Corona Times: Making Hand Washing FUN!

 



Make washing hands fun. Put up fun signs to remind you to do it, so you don't have to always be told. Be the hand washing leader in your family!

Find new ways to play!

Know you can reach out for virtual play dates.

Design your own Mask!  Draw a picture on it!
https://www.parents.com/health/how-to-make-coronavirus-protective-face-masks-with-your-kids/

Make an Amabie Yokai to show others for Placebo Power.

Monarch Migration!

The Monarch Migration as seen by a Hummingbird Robot! 

Placebo Power through a Yokai.

EXPLORE the "placebo power" of a Covid19 Yokai,
AMABIE....
















Click here to see a million Amabie pictures and make your own!

Send a Picture of one you make and we'll post it in the Ethical Amabie Exhibit coming soon!
YoungEthicalExplorers@gmail.com



Watch here:
A slide show about Amabie!