Episode 09. What we learned

What does kindness look like through the eyes of children? In this heartwarming episode, young people share their ideas about being kind, helping others, and making sure everyone feels included.

Through stories from school, the children describe moments when friends helped them, welcomed them into games, shared with them, and checked if they were okay. They talk about the difference a simple conversation, a kind gesture, or an invitation to join in can make when someone is feeling left out.

Alongside jokes, laughter, and everyday adventures, the children reveal powerful lessons about friendship, empathy, and belonging. Their stories remind us that small acts of kindness often have the biggest impact.

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Transcript

We learn new words. We learn new words, like what? To be kind. To be kind, okay.

Play with your friends. Play with your friends, that's very good. Be kind.

Be kind. Anyone else wants to add something? Say are you okay and like help them up. That's very good, okay.

So asking them if they're okay and helping them out. We be kind to everyone. Yeah.

If someone is new, you can include them in stuff. I bought this book at my school book fair and you need a key to unlock it and I forgot and I lost my key. No, I forgot it at home and then my friend who had a different book, a different design, she had the same key as me, so I asked her if I could use her key and she said yes.

And today, my other friend, he has the same book as me and I was going to finish a story for my teacher, but then we were trying to unlock my book with something metal, but then my teacher said check in this box if he has his key and he, yeah, and the key was there. Let me talk. So, but the key was there so I used his key, but he wasn't in, but he always lets me use his key.

Yeah. I have a joke for you. I have a joke.

Okay, what's six times seven? You tell me. I don't know. No, you tell me.

Six times seven means... I don't know. Forty-two. Forty-two.

And then what year will it be in 42 years? Twenty-sixty-seven. Twenty-sixty-seven. What? Someone fell and I picked them up.

We were on the yard and then someone didn't let me play a game with them and I fell off too. So we was playing a game, you know the game where we look at each other and we throw the ball? No one passed me the ball until Brianna, she came in and she comforted me. What would have made you feel more included? Where they passed the ball to me.

So in class, we were all talking and then just no one talked with me and I was like really sad, but then I wasn't really that sad, but then someone came up to me and they started like talking with me and that made me really happy. That's very good. Did you become friends with them? No.

They don't really talk, but like we don't really talk. Like we talk, but like we're friends. Yeah.

But we don't talk a lot, but we come around and say hi. Stuff like that. That's very good.