The Lesson

An interesting thing will happen when you type "Lessons from Children" onto an Internet search engine. There are only Piano, Spanish, Art, Manners and Yoga Lessons for Children! Then way down on the page,  you will find the "Children's Wisdom". Click the link and you will find examples of the uncanny, unerring, unnerving wisdom that Children have, which they strip down to its bare, simple but often uncomfortable truth..

• Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you.

• Its better for girls to be single, but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them.

• Its hard to unlearn a bad word.

• Ask 'why' until you understand.

• It's easier to see the mistakes on someone else's paper.

• A pencil without an eraser may as well be a pen.

• Sometimes the best one in the play has the fewest lines.

• Some nights it not worth fighting over who gets the top bunk.

• Don't expect your friends to be as exited about your '100' as you are.

• Don't say, '"The last one is a rotten egg", unless you are absolutely sure there is someone behind you.

• If you don't like the birthday girl, don't go the the party.

• Crawling still gets you there.

• You can't start over just because you're losing the game.

• When you are dressed up like a princess, its easier to act like one.

• If a tree had apples last year, don't expect pears this year.

• You can't be everyone's best friend.

• If you want someone to listen to you, whisper it.

• Sometimes you have to take the test before you are finished studying.

• Ask where things come from.

• If you throw a ball at someone, they'll probably throw it back.

• Don't nod on the phone.