"All I Ever Needed To Know"
Author Robert Faughum

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Faughum contains this priceless advice.

Most of what I really need to know about life, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the tip of the graduate school mountain, but here in the sandbox at nursery 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 and think, draw and paint, sing and dance, play and work a little everyday.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you get out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up, and nobody really knows why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish, hamsters, white mice, and even the little seed in the plastic cup ? they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane, and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden rule, love and basic sanitation; ecology, politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if all of us ? the whole world ? had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon, and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation, and other nations, always to put things back where we found them, and cleaned up our own messes.

And it's still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it's best to hold hands and stick together.