Replies to '01/08 Cyber Bullies'

In response to the show I watched today, I think that every adult should have to read the book."ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum  

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 sand pile at 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 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 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 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 at about 3 o'clock in the 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 their own mess.  

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.  

I just cant believe how anyone would intentionally hurt another person.  There SHOULD be laws on the books for this!  I back up the amendment for freedom of speech, but NOT when it interferes with anothers persute of happiness.  Im not all that PC, in fact I think that were getting out of hand in some instances with it, however in the situation with that council member posting that joke" on her professional website; I agree that she was wrong.  What you do on your own time and on your own dime is your business, but youre supposed to be a professional, held to higher standards than others.  One of my favorite sayings (I repeat this over and over to my 4 children) Just because you can doesnt mean that you should.   Sure, you can say ugly things to people, but you shouldnt.  We can clone people for spare parts (it can be done) but that doesnt mean that we should.  Where has common sense gone???  Sometimes I wish that someone would just slap these people upside the head to knock some sense into them.  There are too many people with WAY TOO much time on their handsget a productive hobby, get a job, get a life.