To You, our children, who hold within you our most cherished hopes, we the members of the Midcentury White House Conference on- Children and Youth, relying on your full response, make this pledge:
"From your earliest infancy, we give you our love, so that you may grow with trust in yourself and in others.
We will recognize your worth as a person, and we will help you to strengthen your sense of belonging.
We will respect your right to be yourself and, at the same time, help you to understand the rights of others, so that you may experience cooperative living.
We will help you to develop initiative and imagination, so that you may have the opportunity freely to create.
We will encourage your curiosity and your pride in workmanship, so that you may have the satisfaction that comes from achievement.
We will provide the conditions for wholesome play that will.....
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