A beautiful fragrance has spread to the village of blue dreams. The population of the village increased. Schools became workplaces. Unemployed people were given jobs and all children were enrolled in school. Even the adults, who could no longer read and write, went to school on Saturdays and Sundays, and they learned a lot at school. But one day a bad smell spread through the village and it was now called "Old Town". Hostile men came to the village and the people were scattered. The young people's jobs were taken away from them. There was no food, no drink. The village became a terrible place....

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.....Zehra was very happy to see the flowers. Zehra smelled the flowers. As she smelled them, spots appeared on her face. She and her mother went to the hospital and stayed there for a week. Her mother went to the canteen and when she came back Zehra was gone. There was only a letter on her bed. The letter said, "I am Mahmut Bey, the father of Abu Bakr Siddiq." Zehra's father and Mahmut Bey were enemies, there was a blood feud between the two families................ .......Zehra thought, "Will I always live in fear? Zehra started to think how to reconcile them. She invited them for dinner and talked and ended the bad blood between them. Very good, the problem was solved very nicely. They were going places together, they were playing very nice games, they were going to each other's houses.... 

These stories are from the story corner where children can write freely and create and decide the fiction themselves. When we decided to create this corner, we were aware that it would not always be a rosy story. Fictions would not be independent from the stimuli around the children. And unfortunately, an incident similar to the one the children told us through stories happened recently in Bağlar when a child was shot because of a feud between two families. Again recently, Dicle, who was working overtime among heavy machinery, lost his life while working as a laborer. Children are born into conditions prepared by adults that are full of violations of their rights, including violations of the right to life, child labor, inequality of opportunity in education, violations of the right to education in their mother tongue. Children are forced to experience the consequences of wars, poverty, political attitudes, racism and conflicts of adults, which they are not responsible for, in the most severe form; their right to life is violated, they are forced to do child labor, they are discriminated against. Both inadequate policies and inadequate understanding of children by adults have once again shown us how easily even a child's most basic right to life can be destroyed. The fact that children appear as subjects in their own stories, rather than being invisible or ignored in violence, war and poverty, and that their solutions are both a call to adults to correct inadequate policies towards children's rights and a call to adults shows how much children are aware of the conditions they live in and the violations of rights they are exposed to. On the occasion of the International Children's Rights Day, as the Child Studies Association, we say once again that children are children, not workers, mothers, fathers, farmers or enemies... Children write about their problems and tell their solutions! Let's talk about children... Let kites fly more in children's stories.