Thursday, 08 January 2009
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All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:- Share everything.
- Play fair.
- Don't hit people.
- Put things back where you found them.
- Clean up your own mess.
- Don't take things that aren't yours.
- Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
- Wash your hands before you eat.
- Flush.
- Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
- Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
- Take a nap every afternoon.
- When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
- Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
- And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
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Comments (10)
Wow! This was really well written m'dear! What a talent you have
I learned all that before Kindergarten. I wish they let us take naps in college...and have warm milk and cookies.
This IS well-written. Except the title should be "All I really need to know I WAS TAUGHT in kindergarten." 'cause, if I recall correctly, you haven't quite mastered that no-hitting thing quite yet. It was great seeing you again. You see...uh,,,next wedding?
@Undaunted4ever - ROTFL! You're right, I do need to work on that.
You know, you're totally right.
As usual. Ha.
How's Lauren and Kate?
haha. I was gonna say the same thing as Marcus!
...and everyone else.
Very creative! Good job! Two thumbs up!!!
Hello Ms. Christine,
You made your site so simple yet elegant. I see that it is normal for everything to die. That’s the kind of world that we live in now, a world where sickness and death are a part of life. Fortunately, it isn’t going to stay this way much longer!
I want to help people to really get to know Jehovah God, especially in these troubled times. Here is an important message for us from Him that is in the Bible: "...I am about to shake up everything, to turn everything upside down and start over from top to bottom - overthrow governments, destroy foreign powers, dismantle the world of weapons and armaments, throw armies into confusion, so that they end up killing one another." (Haggai 2:21,22) (MSG)
I duno about anyone else but uh...
I STILL haven't learned to flush
@Sawdawg1 -
ROTFL