The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (see Cantwell 1995) offers an additional framework against which we can define and assess our professional obligations towards children. The significance of the convention is that it placed children's rights, for the first time, on a legally binding international level and that it granted children the same range of rights enjoyed by adults. Ratification of the convention places states under a legal and moral obligation to offer the administrative legislative, judicial and other means to advance the cause of implementing the rights outlined in the convention. As Australia is a signatory to the convention, these obligations extend to early childhood professionals in terms of our and practice. As such, it is important that we become conversant with the document and examine ways in which we can acknowledge the key articles of the Convention in our practice.