Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.Collection: Teaching
You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.Collection: Learning
If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.Collection: Learning
Look at the footprints you've made.Collection: Teaching
It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.Collection: Teaching
Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.Collection: Believe
Shortcuts aren't always.Collection: Teaching
Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.Collection: Flower
If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.Collection: Dog
It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.Collection: Success
They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.Collection: Class
Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.Collection: Teaching
Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.Collection: Assessment
The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.Collection: Teaching
The path you're on looks different when you turn around.Collection: Teaching
Nobody can pedal the bike for you.Collection: Teaching
It's more fun to color outside the lines.Collection: Fun
It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.Collection: Teaching
Whiners usually play alone.Collection: Teaching
You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.Collection: Fall
You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.Collection: Dog
You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.Collection: Learning
A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.Collection: Teaching
Crawling still gets you there.Collection: Teaching
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.Collection: Education
It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.Collection: Mistake
If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.Collection: Fall
Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.Collection: Teaching
If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.Collection: Teaching
If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.Collection: Learning
Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.Collection: Kids
Before you trade sandwiches, check between the bread.Collection: Sandwiches
Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.Collection: Learning
Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.Collection: Rocks
It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.Collection: Reality
One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.Collection: Personality
Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.Collection: Kids
The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.Collection: Teacher
Sometimes it's smart to be scared.Collection: Smart
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.Collection: Assessment
Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.Collection: Baby
If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.Collection: Stars