Book Review - All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum



Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things


This simple and uncomplicated book looks at life from the child’s point of view. Life’s really simple and we adults view it as quite mixed up in our heads, says the author. Easy to read, but difficult to digest, this little book is a different read altogether.

All I really needed 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 Sunday School. 

 The author lists the following things I learned in Kindergarten and they are enough to lead life:

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 nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and
stick together.
Be aware of wonder.

LOOK.

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