...it's that sometimes you need help from others to get yourself out of your own sh*t.
-Sab
If having a one year old has taught me one thing about life...
by sabastious 18 Replies latest social humour
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palmtree67
All I Really Need To Know
I Learned In Kindergartenby Robert Fulghum
- an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in KindergartenAll 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
sandpile at Sunday 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 into 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 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
three 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 thing 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. -
sabastious
That was really cool, palmtree, thanks for that.
-Sab
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NomadSoul
You will also learn that they use you to get what they want! lol
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sabastious
You will also learn that they use you to get what they want! lol
It'll be give and take. I'll be using him to get what I want, like when the lawn needs mowin'
-Sab
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NomadSoul
Out of topic, this just came to my mind.
That reminds me about a show I saw the other day. "The science of dogs". They did an experiment with wolves raised when they were babies versus domesticated dogs.
They did a problem solving test. There was a treat inside a cage and the wolves would try to get it but never asked for help. When it was the domesticated dogs's turn, when he finally gave up he would stop and looked to his master for help.
Toddlers do the same thing. I thought that was pretty interesting.
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tec
Very nice, Palm! True also.
Sab, for some reason I always think of your boy being around two or three... even though I've seen his picture and know he's a baby still. Strange.
Tammy
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sabastious
Sab, for some reason I always think of your boy being around two or three... even though I've seen his picture and know he's a baby still. Strange.
This is him a few weeks ago. He turned 1 march 16th 2011. He also loves his books!
-Sab
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nolongerwaiting
Those PJ's are soooo cute!!
NLW's wife
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sabastious
Those PJ's are soooo cute!!
Yes, they pave the way for many squishies.
-Sab
