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ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
(a guide for Global Leadership) by Robert Fulghum.

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.
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.

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 or your work or 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 at about 3 o'clock in the 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 out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. http://www.robertfulghum.com

Quotes for Parents

Having a child is like having
"your heart go walking around outside your body".
Elizabeth Stone.

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford.
Then I want to move in with them."
Phyllis Diller

"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age".
William Feather

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family ... in another city."
George Burns

And in case you're rushed off your feet this weekend, feeling that when you've finally got this one last task completed you'll be able to start enjoying yourself, you might want to read this excellent quote first:

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way.
Something to be got through first, some unfinished business,
Time still to be served, a debt to be paid.
Then life would begin.
At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way.
So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no-one"
Fr. Alfred D'Souza