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Coffee Break: Teach your children well

Kids race to grab snow from a picnic table during a 2012 snowball fight in Winona.
Kids race to grab snow from a picnic table during a 2012 snowball fight in Winona.AP Photo/Winona Daily News, Joe Ahlquist

by Jill Riley and Anna Weggel

November 20, 2020

November 20 is World Children's Day (also known as Universal Children's Day), celebrated each year to promote international togetherness and awareness among children worldwide, and improve children's welfare.

November 20 is notable for a few reasons -- 1. It is the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 2. it is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention children and kids?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Teach Your Children
Billy Bragg - Help Save The Youth Of America
Metric - Youth Without Youth
The Replacements - Kids Don't Follow
Arcade Fire - City With No Children
Harry Chapin - Cat's In The Cradle