The article proposes to think the subject of the care from the alterity notion, affirming an ethic of health care that requires exposure to the other. It starts bringing elements from the history of childhood to reveal their images in the passage of time, not a conceptual fixation. Highlights the moment of an image of depreciation of the child and the exclusion of infancy, projecting this image for the depreciation and the rejection of the contact with the alterity. In substitution to the representation of the child, a come-to-be of the adult or promise of the future, the article appeals to the concept of Guattari and Deleuze of becoming-child to propose a care that does not remit to the demands of the future, but to the experimentations in which the child-in-us exerts its powers, composing itself with the different ambients with which coexist. Two Brazilian movies, Central do Brasil and Abril Despedaçado, through its images and child characters, embody this proposal.
becoming-child; infancy; alterity; care; health education