Remedial Lessons

I am not an expert on political commentary but I do have some experience in dealing with human beings who can't get along. My head is about to pop off from all the arguing. Every time I turn on the TV or radio I hear one side blaming the other for the financial woes we are all going to pay for one way or the other. If I wanted to be tormented I would just open the door to the family room and listen to the kids bicker about who is taking up too much space on the couch. If I could tolerate contentiousness, bad pizza and boring meetings I'd run for office myself.

I think there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the isle and it's ironic that the clowns that got us to this place are the same ones claiming they can fix it. I would have liked to seen both houses hunkered down working 24/7 to work out something that makes sense, even if it meant napping on cots on the floor of "the house".  Is it really impossible to pass something as important as this without adding money for special interests? And they wonder why citizens are angry? Really?

As always, I recommend applying a practical approach to any problem. Maybe all of us could benefit from reviewing these simple rules  to live by:

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

(a guide for Global Leadership)

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 sand pile at 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 in 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 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 at about 3 o'clock in the 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 in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.  See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ 

OK. I know that's rather simplistic considering the magnitude and complexities of our financial problems but a lot of the folks I've seen on TV this week have demonstrated they could use a mandatory remedial inservice on how to conduct themselves in public.

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