"All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned In Kindergarten"

Matthew's program included an excerpt from Robert Fulghum's book, "All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten."  I am going to include it below, it's one of my favorites.

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.  (My note, yeah right!)
*When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
*Be aware of wonder.
*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 work 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 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 all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about one o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.  Or if all governments had 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.

Love it!  Love you Matthew!