Introduction. As the inspiring author of the Order of the Smile, Janusz Korczak, wrote, “there are no children – there are people, but with a different scale of concepts, a different amount of experience, different drives, and a different game of feeling. Remember we don’t know them”. Preventing and counteracting the violation of children’s rights is one of the challenges faced by modern educators. This phenomenon does not lose its relevance. On the contrary – it intensifies, constantly revealing new aspects of it. This is indicated by the results of research, including works by Bruno Hołyst (1991, 2000, 2011), Bronisław Urban (2000), Janusz Surzykiewicz (2000, 2004), Grażyna Miłkowska-Olejniczak (1999), and Marek Michalak (2020), confirming the need to educate the society in the field of children’s rights awareness. Objective. The text aims to promote the topic of social issues and demonstrate the need for dialogue on the idea of the “Order of the Smile”, embedded in the theoretical pedagogy of Janusz Korczak. Materials and methods. The article reviews the subject literature which takes into account the pedagogical importance of the issue of children’s rights. As part of the work on the text, the analytical-synthetic method was used, which allowed presentation of the context of the functioning of the “Order of the Smile” in the social space. Results. Important contemporary issues, taking into account a number of pedagogical, educational, and social aspects, may be an inspiration for researchers, especially in the field of social pedagogy, psychology, sociology, as well as other fields and scientific disciplines.