ALL I NEED TO KNOW…

… I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN.
Originally by by Robert Fulgham (remixed into a Kenyan Version)

I read this book some years back and it really touched my senses because of it’s simplicity in knowledge. Indeed all things I need to know I learned in nursery. I was going to post the original version until my workmate remixed it into the Kenyan version & I found myself on the floor laughing at how true it is and why Kenyans are the way they are.

1. Share everything
2. Play fair - Life isn’t fair and survival is for the fittest!
3. Don’t hit people - Hit them if they hit you!
4. Put things back where you found them - Not necessarily!
5. Clean up your own mess - Why when someone else can do it? or better yet… if you don’t you’ll be beaten!
6. Don’t take things that aren’t yours - Who says they aren’t yours?
7. Say sorry when you hurt somebody - Totally Odiero
8. Wash your hands before you eat - If water is available
9. Flush - True that!
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you - Totally Odiero, porridge & Chai ya saa kumi was more like it
11. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some - True that!
12. Take a nap every afternoon - And you’ll surely remain poor. Wake up early! Work hard!
13. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together - Totally Odeiro
14. 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 - Who says?
15. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die - Hamster ndio nini?
16. 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 - Peter & Jane.