Everything I need to know in life I learned in Kindergarten. It doesn't matter what age we are, we can always be reminded of a few simple facts of life.

1. ALL I REALLY
NEED TO KNOW I
LEARNED IN
KINDERGARTEN

2. Share everything.

3. Play fair.

4. Don't hit people.

5. Put things back
where you found
them.

6. Clean up
your own
mess.

7. Don't take
things that
aren't yours.

8. Say you're
sorry when
you hurt
somebody.

9. Wash your
hands
before you
eat.

10. Flush.

11. Warm
cookies
and cold
milk are
good for
you.

12. Live a balanced life - learn
some and think some and
draw and paint and sing and
dance and play and work
every day some.

13. Take a nap
every afternoon.

14. When you go
out in the
world, watch
out for
traffic, hold
hands and
stick
together.

15. 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.

16. Goldfish and hamsters and
white mice and even the
little seed in the Styrofoam
cup - they all die. So do we.

17. And then remember
the Dick-and-Jane
books and the first
word you learned -
the biggest word of
all - LOOK.