Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you the Class of 2020!
It’s a great day for a graduation!
So what if it is only kindergarten. It is a big, fat hairy deal here under the Big Top. Our amazing little man who once was no bigger than my hand is completing kindergarten today.
So what if he is the smallest one in the class. He is absolutely amazing and the most awesome kid in the class!
I’m not the only one who thinks so either.
Congratulations to Daniel and the rest of the Class of 2020. You are guys are now ready for life and the big, bad world!
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Most of what I really nned 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 of nursery school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit anyone. 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 some 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 seeds 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.
Copyright. All Rights Reserved by Robert Fulgham 1987
8 responses so far ↓
Renee // May 29, 2008 at 3:02 pm |
Congraduations! lol
Chris // May 29, 2008 at 3:38 pm |
2020? 2020? That makes me…..OLD
zombie mom // May 29, 2008 at 10:18 pm |
ahhhh… congrats… so darn cute and how completely terrific. You must be so insanely proud.
megjdda // May 30, 2008 at 6:20 am |
A huge milestone in all of your lives! Congratulations Daniel….you are an amazing dude.
Becky // May 30, 2008 at 8:16 am |
Aww! So cute! I don’t think they do this at Tyler’s school. At least, no hint of it yet. They don’t “graduate” until mid-June here.
Kim // May 30, 2008 at 1:48 pm |
Congratulations, Daniel. Kindergarten graduation IS a big deal here in our house too.
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