All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten  You Didnt    Share everything  Play fair  Dont hit people  Put things back where you found them  Clean up your own mess  Dont take things that arent yours  Say youre 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 DickandJane books and the first word you learned  the biggest word of all  LOOK  GROW UP