Editor:
I had the opportunity to teach kindergarten to many in our community and know your families. What a beautiful part of my life!
Thank you, you will always be in my heart. I ask myself, you and others in our home town to please consider how we would like to be treated and then treat others likewise. I would share this reading with my class and would like to share it with you.
All I ever needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten
By Robert Fughum
“Most of what 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 and box at the 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 are 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 some and pain and sing and dance and play and work everyday. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in 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 plants go up and nobody really knows why. We are like that. And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK!
“Everything you need to know is there somewhere: The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and equality and sane living.
“Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true: It is best to hold hands and stick together.”
This is a good reminder of how the people of Sweet Home can show love and kindness to others.
Debbie Duncan
Sweet Home