Wisdom of Dr. Seuss

1. Wisdom of Dr. Seuss

2. The kind of nonsense that children love and adults never outgrow

3. “What’s wrong with kids having fun reading without being preached at” Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel

4. Effective tales that foster moral imagination empathy “childness”: vulnerability, immediacy, openness & neediness moralism

5. The child’s openness to constructing a world is not defiant or even subversive, as some parents might suggest, but rather reflective of the child’s natural narrative perspective

6. We never outgrow childness

7. Cannot avoid having troubles nor is there even a simple solution to our troubles

8. We have freedom to think what we want and go where we want Oh, the Thinks You Can Think Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

9. The immediacy of childness that is a prelude to wonder

10. Dependency must be included in any definition of what it means to be human even in adulthood

11. Faithfulness changes things

12. Sweet morality tales from silly rhymes and nonsensical stories How the Grinch Stole Christmas Yertle the Turtle

13. Provoke the moral imagination of children “who have ears to hear”