The path of the Bassa Reggiana on services for early childhood has distant roots, but it is made up of women and men who have sensed the need to put girls and boys at the center with their rights. People who have grasped the importance of looking after and protecting, but in the growing awareness - given by experience as well as by the theoretical observations that have multiplied not only in Europe since the nineteenth century - of the need to actively participate in strengthening the culture of childhood.