I would like to share something from Robert Fulghum's thoughts in his book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back when you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt sombody.
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 out for the 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 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.
These are simple rules. So simple yet so useful. When life gets so complicated, let us go back to our childhood and learn all over again these basic things.
Can we say we are better now in following these simple rules than we were in kindergarten?
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I often wonder what they teach in kindergarten today compared to what we were taught as children.
Happy BYB Sunday
These words are so precious...mahalo for reminding me of these again and Happy BYB Sunday!
Maybe we should pull our kids out of school after Kindergarten? What a wonderful world it might be. It could not be any worse with all the education we have.
Fulghum was a genius for the kindergartner metaphor. He reminds us to be as children and to be kind and expect kindness. A courteous heart is everything!
Thanks for this, and happy Blog Your Blessings Sunday!
Those are some great tips that can only do us good if we follow them all our lives
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