I would like to share some lines which I think are very meaningful in our frivolous and chaotic and arrognat world. These lines come from a book I am reading.
"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 sandpile at Sunday 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 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 into 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 your 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 about tree o`clock every 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 into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."
I think it is a good idea to think about this credo in order to know where we are and know where we will take our lives. Do not miss the track. Thanks.
For those who want to buy the book:
AL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARDENT BY ROBERT FULGHUM
I think this note is very interesting, because if we apply what we have learned from the childhood like the rules of good behavior, our country would not be suffering the problems that now a days dominate to Mexico like the corruption mainly.
I guess would be very good to discover in where people lose the path or the rules, I mean how long they forget the good way, learning by the school or the family.
In my personal point of view, this kind of people, mainly politicians doesn´t have a firm education because they always want to keep the power and to be powerful.
But, this note is a question for me as well, Am I doing that my parents and teachers taugth me? and I can answer that in some occasions not.
When we are children & we are also discovering the world we respect it, then we thing that we are better & can control everithing.
We change our mind & made things more complicated, we forget that our moost treasure posetion is the poeple we love, people who love us & the every day details.
We don´t notice it until we lose something, but then it´s so late.
When i was reading I remain "El Principito". I suppose that doesn´t exist a direct conecction, but it is a georgeous book, isn´t it?
It remains me to Chejov either.
I don´t know if your book is a tale, but Chejov would write tales and "el Principito" is a tale too.
Chejov said that all the things that happen in your town are a reflection of the world. In someway it is backing to the basics.
And "el principito" backs to the basics because is a story for children and explain many thing in a simple way.
The idea here is that children and tales are the basics. And all the things have (perhaps) the same origin. So all the things we want it could be done.
Am I degressed?
Hi George,
I was thinking through about it and now I supposed that most of the people have lost good manners and that's rrealy sad because if we kept this, our world would be much diferent.
Starting by ourselves, we can make the difference between live in a uncomfortable world or live at ease.
Definitely you have the reason because we forget to apply the facts we learnt in kindergarden, facts which at simple sight can be silly but at the same time they can be very useful in some situations.
Eventualy, it's your image and is your business if you bare this in mind or not. Only you have the power to be different and try to change this sort of awful behaviour in the current world.
I READ THIS lines before and I agree whit you I consider that return to the basic is the best way to live.
I REMEMBERED ONE SETENCE THAT MY BEST FRIEND SAID " we could find always the true in the simplicity, not in the multiplicity and confusion of the things".
We think that we are investing our life but in most of the times we complicate the life all the time. The life is easy but but we always ignore the best things, for example: children.
Their life is happy because is not complicate, they just enjoy and share, they never look for complicated things.
I think the chlidren's life is the way thata the adults forgot, but they are lookinf for all the time.
It´s really interesting what you´re saying. I think first of all humans need to be level-headed and start respecting everyone (people, animals, nature, God, etc..) in order to improve ourselves. In our childhood we start knowing our enviorenment how does it behave and how do we have to behave inside it like following the rules society has impose but I disagree with that I think the best way to be happy is enjoying yourself and enjoying everything around you there´s when you start communicating in a better way and respecting everyone´s space.
Thanks for this inspiring space. Anita
HI,I THINK THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE ACT ACCORDING WHIT THEIR EDUCATION, THE EDUCATION THAT OBIOUSLY LEARNT FROM THE KINDERGARDEN TO THE HIGHSCHOOL, WHY IN THIS PERIOD? BECAUSE I THINK THAT IN THIS PERIOD WE LEARNT THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT THE LIFE, AND MOST OF US LIVE THE LIFE IN ORDER TO SOME KIND OF RULES THAT WE LEARNT, IN MY CASE I LEARNT TO RESPECT ALL THE PEOPLE INDEPENDENTLY OF THE RACE, RELIGION SEXUAL PREFERENCES AND IDEOLOGIST, TO LISTEN THE PEOPLE OPINION AND AFTER GIVE MY THINKS, TRY NOT TO HURT WHIT MY ACTS TO SOMEBODY ELSE (DESPITE SOMETIMES IT IS TOO DIFICULT),TO BE HONEST WHIT EVERYBODY (ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES THE TRUE IS HARD),TO DO MY BEST TO BE SUCCESFUL IN MY LIFE, IN MY CASE TO BE SUCCESFUL FOR MY FAMILY AND FOR MYSELF. AND PUT ATTENTION TO SOMETHINGS VERY IMPORTANT LIKE FEELINGS AND WISHES, NOT ONLY IN THE SUPERFICIAL THINGS. SE YOU LATER FOLKS.
George, i think as you and as the book you are reading. if all people were like children all world will be better. without problems, but if were problems them will be solved by a "chiras-pelas". that the reazon why we, "adults", have to keep the children inosense inside all the kinds among us and try, the most times we can, to act like them. so, my advice is: if you have a children near, dont be angry with him, dont see him like a little fool, just be like him and you will feel easy and happy as him.
When I was reading this article I began to remember other things that I learned when I was in kindergarden like:
Be responsible of the things I do.
Be polite with elder people.
Respect rules.
Try to do things by myself, and if I can't ask for help.
Try to help my partners.
And more..........
Some books and specialist say that the most important years for a child are the first 4 years, because in this period they learn the basic feelings, rules and behavior and then they develop them. If in this years you see or learn bad things you'll do it all your life. If we keep this good values the world might be better.
Hi George,
When we are children we start to explore the world. It's in this years when we develop the basics behaviours and knowledge,and I think that we shouldn't forget it.
Because it's true, when you are children you are inocent, you enjoy each moment of your chilhood.
But the problem is when your mind changes, because you start to complicate your life.
Now, you are not inocent because you only want to achive your personal interests.
You don't worry about the others, and you don't worry about the effects that the strategies that you use could cause in the people around you.
Don't complicate your life, and don't forget the basics behaviours and knowledge.
Hi everybody,
I would compare this topic and title with an electronic cd compiled and mixed by Danny Tenaglia: "Back to basics", so, when you decide to do this, first you have to search in the bottom of your own roots, what was you? what did you do? and How did you feel?
It`s a very difficult but interesting search and the results are very gratificant and usefull.
Like Danny`s cd, you`ll remember how you get to your actual position and all the principles that you followed in order to succes, but most important than this is how can modify your present, compare it with your past idea of yourself and evaluate if you are in the point that you really want.
Remember, you only need a few "Basic" things to enjoy your life like a child, we are here to enjoy the life and don´t complicate yourself with the new men life-style. The antique Egypt civilization didn´t have electronics advances, but they had more advances in life knowledge, they could foretell the future of the human race,
how could they do that?.
So, think whe need back to Basics?
Thanks and remember your child`s dreams and follow them.
Hi George.
I was reading your article and I remeber some parts of my life, I really enjoyed my childhood
and then I smiled, I agree with you is as a frien told me:
"The life is easy, don't complicate it", if we do the right things the situation will be change.
But in my opinion this is a man world nota kid world, so maybe sounds nice all that we learned in our childhood but please think we are adults the situation could be easy if you could solve all the problems with a cookie, but it is different, maybe consider the previous points but you need to think that we don't need to be a child to solve the problems or all the right things because in this facts consist the maturity, please remember all the things that we do in the childhood but do the things as an adult.
Than you
HI¡¡¡
FOR ME WAS A LITTLE DEPRESING READ THOSE LINES, THAT MAKES ME REMEMBER MY CHILHOOD AND I REALISE SOMETHING STRANGE; WHEN YOU GROW UP USUALLY LOST YOUR BASICS ILLUSION AND THE INOCENCE TAHT YOU USED TO HAVE.
NOWADAYS WE ARE MORE WORRIED ABOUT INSIGNIFICANT THINGS THAN THE REALLY IMPORTANTS...
Hi everybody!!!
When I read the text I think abaut that all the people is diferent because for you is importan something and for my is importan other one. You are free for choose all that you want.
I only said that you can do every thing that you want and enjoy it but remember respect the other opinions and peoples and
ENJOY EVERY SECOND THAT YOU LIFE AS YOU WANT!!!!!
Yes, Back to the basics¡¡¡¡
I know that every day you grow up,even if you don`t get tallest or older, but the main point it is you need to back to simple things like enjoy everything and every moment in our lifes.
For me it`s difficult do it, because nowadays this world have difficult testes and that drives me crazy.
But I`m young yet, and I`am learning each day to swim into devil`s waves.
I had heard about that book on the radio. If we behaved as children, we woldn´t have so many problems in the world.
This basics are very interesting the difficulty now is how are you going to extrapolate it in your adult life? I think this is the most difficult thing, because other people don't know this rules and they live as an adults, without respect of the things of other people, without fix the mess they did, without a lot of things that children have. If we can extrapolate this things in our adults life, it would be great.
Since a long long time ago we know what the good and bads things are, we`ve known wars, corruption, deaths, murders, etc. We´ve lived all those things and I think It´s time to be above of that, we need to be children again, in order to be above.
All those things I mentioned are for weak people (murders, corruption wars) we need to be upper & in order to achive it we need to be children again, " back to the basics " then the basics will be the points to be above and learn more new things.
"When I lived everything that I was supposed to live, I understood that I only learned what I knew when I was a child, and now, I only want to be one again, be an old one child".
In my opinion, when you are a child, is important to learn a lot of things in order to know how we have to behave, but when you are growing you realize that not all is pink colour.
But, it doesn't matter, because when you are a child, you only want to play, watch TV, videogames, etcetera. And you don't have any problems.
Back to the basics is great for me, because I enjoyed a lot this stage of my life and I learned all kind of customs and traditions in my family.
What I think is that the way we are is because of that we learnt, if we learnt good habits, we will have them all our life.
But if we learnt the bad ones we are going to show in our adukt life and this could cause us some problems.
It is important that children have a good education in their first years in order to make people able to do things well.
HI!
Searching some papers in my library, I found a book that my mother bought to my when I was a child, it was the first book I read. The book was "The little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery, and it´s dedicated to Leon Welts when he was a child, I mean, it´s a book for children but also for all of us who still feel the child we were.
It talks about what is the meaning of childhood and that we never have to forget that we were a child, even if most of us don´t remember it, specilly nowadays when we are supposed to be an adult.
I hope you can read it.
Well... It's suposse that we don't have to forget our childhood, but sometimes we do.
Be like a child is one of the greatest thing that we can do.
If we behave like a child everything would be easier and better.
Regards,
Olga
I think if we follow this lines the world could be different. When we are adults we see life like a mounster, like a big bag of problems. We can´t see the marvellous of life we just see the worst face of life.
When I were a child I used to play with my mom and brothers but now I only see them at night and of course we didn´t play anymore.
I think that we don´t enjoy life because we only think in our problems, so it is time to change our life. It is time to see the marvellous of life.
I think this reading made me remind what I learnt in kinder. It also made me think about what we are living know. Although it talks about nowadays world in a metaphoric manner I think is true. I mean, not all people will be eating cookies at the same time or getting a nap in the afternoon but all of us could be more concious about our acts. We all should remember all what we learnt in our first years of life in order to be better and to build also a better world.
I remembered that, when I was a chiled every body say what you must to do for be a very good person in the life.
in the procces that you grew up, you lost very importan things that you lerned when you were a chiled.
We can change that if we are honest, responsable and whit well maners.
Hello again!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen (jijiji):
We are finishing with our planet!
I mean, all of our bad and stupid actions are destroying the rivers, forests, jungles, our flora and fauna, BUT the worst is that we are losing confidence and fraternity individualy and between nations.
We need to get conscience of what we are doing and live in peace with the others, respecting their rights and being responsibles.
How many respect and tolerance cost?
That we can live in a better place.
Bye Bye, and remember: Don't pollute your planet.
HELLO EVERYBODY
Good, good, good, if we can change this world is a good idea to start teaching good values at childrens and boys, because in their hands is the future of the world.
CONGRATULATIONS
HI GEORGE AND EVERYBODY
THIS COMMENT IS JUST THE TRUE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHEN GROW UP LOST ALL THE COSTUMS
AND LEARN BAD COSTUMS FOR THIS REASON THE WORLD IS BAD BECAUSE ALL PEOPLE FORGOT THE GOOD COSTUMS
THIS ARTICLE MUST BE READ FOR ALL THE WORLD FOR LEARN AND REBEMBER THE GOOD COSTUMS
Sometimes We forget things that our parents or teachers taught us, and is important to remember things like say thanks or I'm sorry, because We are humans and we need to be with other persons.
I only can say that we need to back to the basics and enjoy our life but with good manners.
Hi¡
Well, with this article I can remember that in my childhood I learned the most important things - in my house, with my parents and with my friends - and is a pleasure for my to say that I have a friend until I went to the pimary school and it´s important to mention that when you have a good life when you´re little in the future you can be a good persone- included aspects like the work, school, in your family etc-
level 10 G.115A
Back to the basics It's a good article because nowadays many people forget things that they learned when they were kids or even we forget it why maybe because the world has changed and we have grown up.
Sometimes I would like to back to my basics when I had not a lot of responsabilities and enjoy my life well Now I enjoy my life but I have to do more things,sometimes I don´t have time to go somewhere or I have a lot of homework but I try to don´t forget the things that I did when I was in kindergarden like play, relax etc. Actually I think that I haven´t forgotten my basics maybe I have changed but the things that I learned when I was I child still in my mind.
The article is very interesting for me, because if you remember I'm mother and I would like that my baby never lost his childhood, however, I think that the society is very cruel and it teach you that you have cruel if not you have many problems.
I like to retorn to my childhood and correct somethings, but I think that Rodrigo is my oportunity of this.
Hi George
I remember when i was in kindergarten, to saw in the walls phases like: "don't run","don't scream",don't push your partner".
see you :)
The best way to have a good life is as simple as your article says, we should follow these steps and everything would be much better for us and for everybody.
BACK TO THE BASICS?
THE LIFE CONSISTS FOR A WORLD IDEAS, NEVER WE CAN DO TO STRUCTURE OR TO OUTLINE THE LIFE, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE LIKE TO MINIMIZE IT.
I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THIS THOUGHT:
The hope is like one I daydream, the one who loses it has stopped dreaming, for loves the life through that you live and it lives through the life that you love
HELLO!
I THINK THAT LIFE ´IT´S HARD BECAUSE OF US, WE MAKE A CHAOTIC SITUATION FOR EVERYTHING, FOLLOWING THIS SIMPLE RULES WE CAN BE HAPPIER AS WE WERE WHEN WE WAS YOUNGER AND NOTHING BOTHER US :)
I think that we have to be more friendly with people like when we were kids, some people foret about be nice and be a good person, kids always are looking for something to do , and some things new to discover, I read this in a book :" I f you want to know how your past life was you have to contemplate your actual situation, if you want to know how is going to be your future lifes , you have to contemplate your actual acctions."
Unfortunately life is not pink.
I used to belive that I was able to change the word if I tried hard, but time passed by and I discovered I was not able to change it at all, but I could do something if I started trying to be a better person. You mentioned a list of things wich could help us, but you missed two important things:
Say "Please" and "Tank you"
If we try all together, maybe in the future we can have hot milk and cookies at four o'clock around the world.
Many things we learnt in the school, with the pass of time you can see this things are unless. And for all your life have taught you because we are in constant evolution with the different generations. We want to choose the better things to survive in the life.
For example: When you are a child, people teach you for not saying bad words, not smoking, no to drinking when you are growing up. All of this things you should decide if you take them or not. I don’t know why them always show this things like the worst that you can do.
There are only just part of our social life and if you don’t know them, lost part of the things you must to live and to learn
Always we have managed the things as they are, without any tabu or something hide.
in my opinion, the best way to change the world is try to think in people around us. we always think that we are a very very importand and nobody else, and when we are do something that think is importand don´t care if hurt the people, the environment, the aminals.
we have to change our mind, enjoy all around us, and don´t lost the curiosity to learn.
We have listened those goods advices from our grandparents,parents,teachers; however almost never reflecting about this and therefore we do not taking the right way many times.
The religions gives to us many goods advices also with the purpose to be happy in this life.
Really always I have liked these type of reflecciones,
In truth I think that is no better opportunity than to live the life intensely until I complete moment.
making a paradox to which I create like life, it would be like a glass, to which it full drop to drop until it becomes a full water glass, and definitively that is the only that we in the end had left, because it is definitively very dificil or until impossible to remove that drop again, and in the exact amount in quite it enter,
For that reason I consider that the best thing of all is to maintain that full glass until the top, so that the death does not surprise to us.
In the personnel I like much reflections and retrospection of the life.
I send you an affectionate greeting.
all the best things come from chilhood,... all the momeries from that age are beautiful,you didn´t worry about anything and I think we should continue thinking like that:):):), we only have to do something that we really enjoys in order to enyoj the whole life, and also try to live every day in good way, sharing time with others, calling some friend, spend time with family, even only walking on the street,but mainly be concious of this world.
In my personal opinion, this kind of articles help us to come back to the past in order to rescue all that simple things that you learnt from you parents (I mean your first and most important teachers)those things like be polite, sweet and nice with people, and which made you smile and feel good.
In the school you can learn a lot of useful things, how to write, how to read, and how to be a professional person, but in your house you learn the most important, tha basics, the values, how to be a good person and as a result be a happy person, capable to share with others your hapiness.
The life are full of rule, that in some cases sounds really illogically. Everu rule was made by previous bad situations. For example, The people create to him the measurements as centimeter, meter, milimeter, pounds, etc., because one started lying when you had your sowings. Causing this way, to impose a rule across the universal measurement
So, many of the rules are created across the lie, the falsity, piracy. The rule was created to have a control on the human being .. that's why my conclusion that the rules are a product of the human false being.
I think that is true that in kindergarden we learn some rules to have a good relation with our classmates and sometimes we would have to remember it because there are some people whom have a very bad behavior; on their jobs, the street or public places, sometimes they don't feel good and has a bad behavior with the people and due to this people would have to check and remember their kindergarten class.
In every country are rules because wihtout rules this world woldn´t work right, we have an education that our parents gave us and we have to respected and followed.In all the way of our lives we are going to find rules and a lot of obstacles that will try to stop us for do it.
HELLO!
WELL, I consider that it is good for thinking about the roots taught by the same humanity, but not always I believe that they are the best ones and less for all, I mind it should be one for each person, for me, define by good and best thing work, but always I have believe in the education that I had.
I like a pair of line that comes from the book, but I like to know to one word that could not catch the real mening, that means the one of "Styrofoam cup".
Greetings
well i think that the people must be nice, because all the people have mistakes and when we have some mistake we have to analize the problem and if we don´t find the answer you yave to return tothe bases.
Hi teacher:
This article really likes me. I agree with these lines because if we had paid attention in that probably we could be better by all our life.
By other way, I want to add an other tip that is very important (well, I think that is important to be better and successful):
Say "thank you" when someone make or do something for you, and then try to do something wonderful for him or her.
I learned it during this week, and now I can understand that this is like a key to open the people's heart and come into it.
Thank you and have a nice weekend