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I ran across this poem on someone's siggy line on AOL, and thought it was so
pretty, you may have heard it before... - Nancy B in WV


Listen to the musten'ts child,
listen to the don'ts,
listen to the shouldn'ts,
the impossibles,
the won'ts,
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me,
anything can happen child,
anything can be.
SS





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In a message dated 10/28/2003 11:37:24 PM Central Standard Time,
CelticFrau@... writes:
I ran across this poem on someone's siggy line on AOL


Shel Silverstein. We've recently been engrossed in his CD with this poem.
My son would have never thought of reciting poetry until hearing Shel do his.
Now he wants to do a few in the talent show (which keeps getting cancelled).

Tuck


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In a message dated 10/28/03 11:37:33 PM Central Standard Time,
CelticFrau@... writes:
Listen to the musten'ts child,
listen to the don'ts,
listen to the shouldn'ts,
the impossibles,
the won'ts,
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me,
anything can happen child,
anything can be.
SS
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Shel Silverstein *Where the Sidewalk Ends*
Good book, good poem.
~Nancy


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zenmomma2kids

>>Shel Silverstein *Where the Sidewalk Ends*>>
>>Good book, good poem.>>

I'm really behind in posts, but wanted to share a fun game Casey and
I played with our Shel Silverstein books.

We started on the last page of poetry. Casey rolled a die and we
subtracted that many pages from the end page and that's the poem we
would read. Then she rolled 2 dice and would add those together and
we'd subtract that number from the current poem page and read that
one. Then she rolled 3 dice...and on and on. I think we got up to 8
dice. Sometimes she would just count the dots to add all those
numbers. Sometimes she had some "math facts" that helped her go
faster. Sometimes I would show her how to combine dice to get 10's,
which I always find the easiest way to add all those single digit
numbers.

When we got back to the beginning of the book I think we started
adding the dice number to the pages. It was all very relaxed and the
rules of our games were developed and changed on the fly.

I read all of the poems aloud to Casey, but I later heard her on the
phone with a friend (long distance!). They were playing the same game
and reading the poetry to each other.

Life is good.
~Mary