All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
December 25th 2008 23:23
The following is from a poster my parents have hanging in the guest's bathroom. It is an extract from a book by Robert Fulghum. The book is the same title as this post.
It truly is inspiring.....
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 high school mountain, but there in the sandpile of Sunday school. These are 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 into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down, the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Gold fish 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 - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is 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 your 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 about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankies for a little 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 into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
It truly is inspiring.....
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 high school mountain, but there in the sandpile of Sunday school. These are 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 into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down, the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Gold fish 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 - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is 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 your 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 about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankies for a little 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 into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
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Comment by Janet Collins
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May your 2009 be a special year for you - I hope it brings you all you want.
Janet
Comment by The Rusty Can
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I enjoyed reading this post - thanks, Jason
Have a good one!
Rusty.
Comment by Wilson Pon
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When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
The differemt is, I'm now holding my girl friend's hand lol
Comment by Jason King
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Rusty - mmmmmm also to cookies and milk but after this xmas I will not eat them until after 3months of living on dry lettuce leaves. I think I have a turkey growing out of my body. Conjoined Turkey Dilexia??
Wilson - same thing for me - it is drummed into us from an early age - we think it's because parents don't want to clean up after us or are sick of us being kids but really it's life's lessons. Beautiful and lucky for you and your girlfriend you get to go into the world together holding hands. This year will be my goal and resolution to find a partner I can share everything with!