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Tanith
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08-25-2006
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 11:34 am
I'm a kindergarten teacher and thought I would post. I think the BB house has the cookies and napping down pat! Maybe they need to work on some others.} Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten 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 sandbox at 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'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 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 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 plastic cup -- they all die. So do we. And then remember the book about Dick and Jane 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 sane living. Think 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 if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. 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. ~ Robert Fulghum ~
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Milosmom
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06-10-2006
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 11:39 am
That's sweet.
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Spunky
Member
10-08-2001
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 11:42 am
Then these folks have never been in kindergarten.
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Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 12:47 pm
kindergarten kids are more fun to watch. these people seem to have arrested development. Only Jameka seems like an adult to me. The rest are big kids.
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Rosem4243
Member
06-27-2005
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 1:22 pm
I just love that, Tanith! I've been in a bad mood all day, and that just brought a smile to my face. I'm going to copy and save it. Thanks for brightening my day, and I only WISH that the BB house was like kindergarten. Maybe the HG could learn something from it.
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Rslover
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11-19-2002
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 3:21 pm
Oh, I remember that great little book. They should give out those books on arrival, instead of letting them bring the Bible in. Those words are so apropos but these guys must have been kicked out of pre-school. If only they followed half of those rules. Well, they do nap, lol.
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Rslover
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11-19-2002
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 3:22 pm
Oh, I remember reading that great little book. They should allow them all to bring that book instead of the Bible. Those words are so apropos but these guys must have been kicked out of pre-school. If only they follow half of those rules. Well, they do nap, lol.
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Northwestblonde
Member
09-01-2005
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 3:32 pm
What a wonderful post Tanith! Sometimes it's the most simple things that give life meaning.
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Carrie92
Member
09-15-2003
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 4:44 pm
You know, this would be a great theme for next year. If you don't follow the Kindergarten rules, the Principal (BB) punishes you! Cookies and milk instead of slop! Wonder how fast they would get sick of that?
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Amac
Member
09-07-2001
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 6:00 pm
The trouble is, kindergarteners have more maturity than the Big Brother houseguests. This show is more like Animal House than kindergarten.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 6:44 pm
Well they seem to have that cookies, milk, and nap around three part down pretty good. Geri from an earlier season seems to have made the "wash your hands" rule memorable to future HG. The rest of the lessons seem to be abhored by the BB contestants.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 7:07 pm
Dick would have been Smoking in the farthest corner of the yard with ONE lawnchair present. bad behaviour is never tolerated in kindergarten let alone rewarded by allowing that child to be in the Center of Attention position.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 8:17 pm
This show is more like Animal House than kindergarten. So true! ROFL
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