Sand Castles and Sharks’ Teeth

Keeping alive these three flowers of childhood can lead to a fuller life

In moments of stress, slow down and view the world through the eyes of a child to rediscover a sense of joy and wonder. Fei Meng

Published in 1986, and still popular today, Robert Fulghum’s bestseller “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” highlights the life lessons learned in early childhood. Play fair, don’t hit people, and hold hands and stick together were just a few of the axioms making Fulghum’s list.

“Take any one of these items,” he wrote, “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.”