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D -e-f-g . . . Today I learnt to climb a tree. H-I-J-K ... I need a band-aid right away! j-m-n-o ... To the zoo today 1 want to go! P-Q-R-S . . . Spilled my milk and made a mess, t-u-v . . . Let me stay up to watch TV! W-X-Y and Z . . . Give me, give me, give me! Dr.-Grat-had-a-cat-who-once-ate-a-rat . . Look, Ma! I made it up! Dr.-Grat-had-a-Fat-cat-who-once-ate-a-rat-with-a-bat-on-a-mat-that-was-fat . . .Look Ma! 1 made it up! All by myself, Ma, I made it up! Two plus two is channel four, and four plus four equals more. Huh, Ma, doesn’t it? It’s NBC isn’t it, huh? E ver suddenly I was thrust into a square little brown wooden thing they told me was a desk. A big lady in front of the room handed out paper and said. “Draw a circle. F or six whole years I had learned plenty. I could draw green grass and big mountains, chimneys and houses and flowers a-bloom in May. And sky- scrapers and horses and oceans . . . “Draw a circle.” I sat at this square little thing, they told me was my desk, with a blank sheet of grainy-white rectangular construction paper right in front of me. 1 had my own box of 64 Crayola crayons and lots of ideas stored in my head and “Draw a circle I drew a circle, I did. and the circle looked empty. I made it into a small red sun. and drew hills, a house and a hundred flowers and . . . (The big lady walked over to my desk, and seeing my colorful creation of a house on a hill, blooming flowers and a happy sky. she broke my red crayon in half.) “Draw a circle!”
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A -b-c-d ... an apple red. a bright green tree. E-F-G ... the colors are so pretty, h-i-j-k . . . I let no one show my mind the way. K-M-N . . . let ' s begin again! a-b-c-d ... I’m filled with creativity. E-F-G ... I do what- ever pleases me. h-i-j-k ... I only care ' bout this sunny day! B eing a kid. Electric trains and Bugs Bunny. Tiny Tears and Dra- cula. Crayola Crayons and finger paints. Skipping rope to rhym- ing tunes, punch ball and movies on Saturday afternoon. There was “Andy’s Gang” and “Dennis the Menace”: Victory at Sea” and “Dr. Seuss”: “Salty Brian’s Shack” and the “Three Stooges”; “Leave it to Beaver” and the “Little Rascals”: “American Bandstand” and Ozzie and Harriet”. And of course, we joined our parents every Sunday night for the “Ed Sullivan Show.” C hildren. We were free-thinking creators of nonsense rhymes and construction-paper drawings, scotch tape ring trains and silly songs. Our minds were fertile beds that incessantly sprouted with curiosity and imagination. Our lives were unpatterned, unscheduled (disregarding our three meals a day. our favorite TV shows and bedtime). We were secure within our families, secure within the prospects of an optimistic life ahead, secure within our happy selves. What we knew of the world came with kindergarten and first grade: a dynamic exposure to the Cold War. Canaveral and Eisenhower. They were good, free times, influenced by our parents, our friendships, our television sets. We inherited the true American way through Ozzie and Harriet” learned of parental respect through “Leave It To Beaver”, realized that the good guys always win from Raw- hide . and experienced our first smacking of culture on “Ed Sullivan . Everything always has a happy ending, or so we thought, from the hundreds of serials we watched. Happiness was having your own hula hoop and racing cars, or so we believed, from the thousands of tempting commercials we watched. “Ma! I want that toy!” We gained an insight on materialism at a very early age.
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