The early childhood years can give them a solid foundation that includes: the relationships made, their attitudes toward school, a beginning to academic success, a belief in self, the person they can become and about the contribution they can make to others and society . These children have an important job as our future leaders. My updated “All I Learned for the 21st Century I Learned in Kindergarten” poem is based on personal experience from being a teacher working directly with 4, 5, and 6 year old children since 1990. Children experience immobility, poverty, lack of parental support, hunger, low self-esteem, poor relationships, lack of prior knowledge and preparation for kindergarten, loneliness, boredom, sometimes homelessness, just to name a few. The children come homes where generally speaking: if they have both parents in the home, both work out side the home. As described in the San Francisco Chronicle, Fulghum’s stories about ordinary life ‘remind us that within simplicity lies the sublime.” ( ) Fulghum web site.Īs a kindergarten teacher, this simplicity of the world has changed with the dawning of the 21st Century. Fulghum writes with wit and wisdom about small lives with big meanings. This collection of essays was the second longest #1 bestseller in 23 years. The essays reflect the truth in everyday form-in the shoe repairman who leaves cookies in the shoes he can’t fix, in the homely Indian who becomes beautiful when he dances, in the small deaf boy who wants to rake Fulghum’s leaves. Robert Fulghum’s poem: “The original edition of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten became an instant classic, dominating the New York Times Bestseller List for all of 1989 and much of 1990.
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