Lessons from Kindergarten We Still Need To Learn

In kindergarten, five and six year old children learn the basics of civility. They may learn simple skills such as the alphabet and numbers, but the priority throughout the kindergarten year is to teach young children how to treat one another with kindness and how to behave in various uncomfortable situations. When I was in kindergarten, I learned how to share, how to act when I didn’t get my way, and how to converse with people politely (even when I wasn’t particularly pleased with them).

As I watch the news headlines, it seems as if many of us need to go back to kindergarten. It seems as if we are competing with one another to determine who can say the most nasty and shocking thing.