Shine With Grace: All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

Published August 6th, 2007 in Gratitude, Happiness, Success, Life, Thoughts.

I heard this notion of “what I really need to know I learned in kindergarten” from a Japaness TV drama. Brillant, I thought. Then, I found out that it was indeed a best-selling book written by Robert Fulghum in 1989.

Remeber what you learned when you were three? Don’t all we need to know we learned in kindergarten?

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 in 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.

Life 101.

Sometimes we don’t really need things that are too complicated. Life is already pretty sweet if we do the most basic - those things we learned when we were three. If we all play fair, clean up our own mess and say sorry when hurt somebody, the world is already a much better place.

Today, pick one of the lessons above and practice for a day - and find bliss in the most ordinary life.

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3 Responses to “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”

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1 Tom O'leary Aug 7th, 2007 at 11:11 am

Hi Shine

“Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody is a classic”. My two year old daughter is just learning that one now. She is doing OK at it, but I am 33 and I’m still struggling with it myself. Maybe instead of growing up we should concentrate on growing down.

Thanks

Tom O’Leary
2 Titus-Armand Aug 8th, 2007 at 11:42 am

Oh my God, that picture is so sweet!

I agree to what Tom said. We focus too much on growing up and we miss the essentials… we’re growing up the wrong way. Growing down is in fact the real growing up that we need to do.
3 shine Aug 8th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

“Growing down” - this is the first time I heard of it and I’m loving it! And, we can actually learn so much from children. I always wish I could gain back the sharpness and fearlessness which were lost along the way.

This just comes to my mind - if I can add one to the list, I would add Be Honest: to others and to yourself.