Top 3 Things you want your child to learn?

I am a mom of three and a clerk at an elementary school so this is a perfect question for me. How I wish some of those school parents had your poems. Giggle.

1. How to use good table manners like little ladies and gents.(sea food and see food are not the same)

2. How to have a conversation with the opposite sex( mostly for boys)(farts and burps are only funny once in a while)

3. How each day is a gift we can give another and that gift should be kindness and caring for one another.(ie not put downs or making fun of others)

4. Learn to wait your turn, no pushing shoving or trampling each other. (Our friends are not all named MAT)

5. Respect of adults. Yes, we still like to hear M'am and Sir

6. Underwear is called underwear for a reason(it goes under WHERE???)

7. The golden rule...need I say more?

8. Old people have lots of great stories(my grandpa''s teacher was Wyatt Earp's cousin, for real!)

9. Giving feels great! (Find that Angel Tree every month)

10. Chores are Yours! and progressive(learn them now cause mommy won't clean your room when your forty.)( I tell my kids, they chores change each year so that by the time they are 16 they can feed, cloth, clean and budget themselves right into adulthood.)

Hope that gives you a bit o' word fodder. What a great idea you have. Be sure to share them with us. And thanks for your service to the little people of the planet just in case no one else has thanked ya!

Smiles Across the Miles

While those things are important..I feel that there are many more important issues children should learn at an early age.

Accept people that are different then you is a big one in my book.

1.) Respect and have manners

2.) Honesty

3.) Self Confidence

4.)To be her own person

Of course other things such as not to talk out of line, or when others are speaking, be clean etc. Overall have good morals and beliefs.

1 - Manners - The top one

2 - Be Kind to others, treat others on how you would like to be treated!

3 - Take pride in everything they do

4 - Never go away with strangers

5 - Always tell the truth

6 - Hygiene

1. You can't always get what you want.

2. Bad things can happen to good people.

3. No one is "a loser" if they did their best.

Self-confidence

Self-reliance

Hygiene & manners

Hygiene & health

Self-efficiency

Independence

Respect, responsibility, and honesty are definitely at the top of my list!

Never talk to strangers

Brush your teeth

Never answer the door..

I stress those things to my daughter

Colors,Numbers,Letters in the ABC's,Shapes,Manors,Responsibly,Respect your elders!