In sitting here tonight, perusing through the forum - new threads, reply posts, etc - I have discovered a disturbing trend. Why is it that nearly every thread that has been started lately, regardless of how good the original intention was, has been met with at least one snarky, rude, uncalled for reply? What has happened within the tk community over the past few months to bring about such a miserable trend? I, for one, don't know the answer. Blame it on current events in the world, perhaps, but I always thought most of us came here to ESCAPE reality. To renew ourselves with a breath of fresh air free from stress, politics, family issues, financial struggles, etc. I could be mistaken, but I honestly believe that is still the case with many of us.
In light of the recent bad attitudes, mug slinging, and smashing of intellectual stubborn minds, I thought we could all use a refresher on those basic rules of livelihood and humanity that we learned so long ago.....in Kindergarten. Please read through the credo below, and reflect upon these simple yet staple rules. Maybe you'll learn a few things you have since long forgotten.
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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 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 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 three 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 after 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.
Written by Robert Fulghum
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I think we should instate a new rule to expand on our Golden Rule here at the forum. One to add to those list of things you learned in kindergarten: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Think about how much happier and pleasant of a place this forum would be if everyone just subscribed to those basic rules found here in this thread.
Mimi
In light of the recent bad attitudes, mug slinging, and smashing of intellectual stubborn minds, I thought we could all use a refresher on those basic rules of livelihood and humanity that we learned so long ago.....in Kindergarten. Please read through the credo below, and reflect upon these simple yet staple rules. Maybe you'll learn a few things you have since long forgotten.
~~~
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 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 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 three 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 after 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.
Written by Robert Fulghum
~~~
I think we should instate a new rule to expand on our Golden Rule here at the forum. One to add to those list of things you learned in kindergarten: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Think about how much happier and pleasant of a place this forum would be if everyone just subscribed to those basic rules found here in this thread.
Mimi
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