"All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten"

I guess one of the drawbacks of have technology is being able to keep up with all the world and national news. I'm just amazed at all the bickering, fussing and fitting that is going on. I read a book years ago on the subject of "All I Really Need to Know I learned In Kindergarten" or you could say Sunday School but I didn't grow up in church but my parents did and taught me a lot of what I'm going to list. So here it goes...



1. Share everything
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. Clean up you own mess.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. 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.
15. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--LOOK.
This is from the author...
"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 of our 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 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 our into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."
I have had this book now for better than 15 years. I can't help to think about it when I see how the world is getting so complicated. When all they have to do is look back to what they learned as a child. (Well most anyway.)