Speaker 1: Hello, Elliott, your tomato plant is really growing.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's almost now.
Speaker 3: You've been taking such good care of it. What's your secret? Oh,
Speaker 3: we don't have any secrets.
Speaker 2: I tell my plant everything.
Speaker 3: Oh. I just meant, what do you do to keep
Speaker 3: your tomato plants so healthy?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, I water it every morning.
Speaker 4: I could weigh any brown leaves and I sing to it.
Speaker 3: Well, it sure is working.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we
Speaker 1: discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the
Speaker 1: fun of clay learning. The Lingo Kids' friends usually get
Speaker 1: along great, but sometimes getting along can get tricky. Let's
Speaker 1: join Elliott, Cowie, Lisa, and Billy to see how they
Speaker 1: are getting along today.
Speaker 5: Hi, Elliot, want to come ride bikes with us?
Speaker 3: Sure, I'll be right there.
Speaker 2: I just need to fish clipping off.
Speaker 6: These dead leaves. Ooh, your to mothers look ready, tats almost.
Speaker 2: They're still a little green.
Speaker 3: Maybe one more day.
Speaker 4: It smells soup, tomdoie, Elliott, it smells delicious.
Speaker 5: They smell disgusting. No offense, Elliott, I just hate tomatoes.
Speaker 4: What not?
Speaker 2: Lisa too? Mothers are the secret green. I'm all the
Speaker 2: best flush in the world.
Speaker 4: Tomato soup for grilled cheese, spaghetti sauce.
Speaker 1: Ketchup Sofa Billy says, don't forget hassleback tomato caprese salad.
Speaker 2: Write that too. I can't wait to pop them right
Speaker 2: into my mouth. They would taste like candy. I like candy.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll try just one. Not yet, Lisia, we have
Speaker 2: to wait until our ripe.
Speaker 5: Okay, then enough tomato talk.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to ride? Yep?
Speaker 3: One more leaf?
Speaker 4: Bye, buy a little tomato plant, soak up the sun.
Speaker 2: Oh good, race Billy.
Speaker 3: Billy says, thank you, he's been training. Yeah, you really
Speaker 3: flew in from behind.
Speaker 2: Hey, where is Cawie.
Speaker 4: I'm sure no one will notice if I just takest
Speaker 4: one little to moto. Yeah, these are so good, Kellie,
Speaker 4: what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Are you eating Elliott's tomatoes? Oh?
Speaker 4: The wind blew all the tomatoes onto the ground, so
Speaker 4: I was saving them with your mouth.
Speaker 3: Don't tell Ellie, it can be our secret.
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody want race again?
Speaker 4: Like tomato Bland, Elliott, Kelly, I try and rescue it
Speaker 4: big when all the tomatoes and they just rolled away.
Speaker 2: Rolled away.
Speaker 3: But I didn't feel a big wind.
Speaker 2: It was just a right here wind.
Speaker 3: Billy says that is not how wind works.
Speaker 2: I don't understand what happened.
Speaker 5: Where are my tomatoes, asked Calie Cawie.
Speaker 3: Teacher, you know my tomatoes?
Speaker 2: Why would you do that? I thought you were my friend.
Speaker 5: Friends don't eat other friends tomatoes.
Speaker 4: I have to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Bye, Cowie. It looks like you're feeling sad. I just
Speaker 3: wanted to try the tomatoes.
Speaker 4: They are my favorite.
Speaker 2: Now my friends hate me.
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying, and I don't think they
Speaker 1: hate you. Maybe it would help to think about it
Speaker 1: from a different perspective.
Speaker 2: But I don't even have a purse.
Speaker 3: Oh, perspective means a point of view.
Speaker 1: You are thinking about eating the tomatoes from a Cowie
Speaker 1: point of view, But how do you think it feels
Speaker 1: from an elliot point of view? Oh?
Speaker 4: No, I'm only just Cowie. Hmmm.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I use perspective glasses to help lingo kids listeners.
Speaker 1: You can try to make two circles with your hands
Speaker 1: and raise them to your eyes like pretend glasses like this. Yes,
Speaker 1: now look through your perspective glasses and pretend you are elliot.
Speaker 1: Pretend you worked really hard to take care of your
Speaker 1: tomato plant.
Speaker 3: I can do that.
Speaker 6: Look, I'm wandering and humming, just like Eliot exactly, and
Speaker 6: still tending your Elliott, how do you feel about the
Speaker 6: tomatoes growing.
Speaker 2: On that plant, crowd, I'm also.
Speaker 3: Excited, okay.
Speaker 1: And now imagine that you go off to play with
Speaker 1: your friends and when you come back, the tomatoes are gone.
Speaker 4: No, I feel sad and angry and yes, well now
Speaker 4: that I see it from Elliott's perspective, but I can't
Speaker 4: believe I did that. Yeah, the tomatoes just look so good.
Speaker 3: It tasted so good.
Speaker 2: I just couldn't stop.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to stop when you really really want something.
Speaker 4: I wish I put the Elliot glasses on.
Speaker 3: First, Cowie. That's a good point.
Speaker 1: Taking a minute to see things from another perspective can
Speaker 1: help solve a lot of problems before they even start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now it's too late.
Speaker 1: Well, it's too late to save the tomatoes, but it's
Speaker 1: not too late to let Elliott know that you are sorry.
Speaker 2: I am sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell Elliott, even if he doesn't want to
Speaker 4: be my friend anymore. Elliot, Cowie, Elliott, really really really sorry.
Speaker 4: I ate your tomatoes. I was going to share them
Speaker 4: with everyone, Cowie, and now they're all gone. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: Elliott should have put on my glasses.
Speaker 2: What do glasses have to do with tomato eating?
Speaker 1: I think what Cowie is trying to say is that
Speaker 1: she got so excited about the delicious tomatoes that she
Speaker 1: forgot to think about it. From Elliott's perspective.
Speaker 4: But I don't even have a purse, I have a backpack.
Speaker 4: Perspective means thinking about how you would feel. Oh, you
Speaker 4: worked really hard to grow those tomatoes, so you felt
Speaker 4: really bad when I ate them up.
Speaker 5: I think Cowie is sorry, but I also think the
Speaker 5: tomatoes are gone.
Speaker 3: Great idea.
Speaker 1: Billy Billy says that maybe Cowie can help Elliott grow
Speaker 1: more tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Do you need any help, Elliott? Maybe?
Speaker 4: I mean you can help me check to see if
Speaker 4: there are any buzz left on my plant.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll put on my glasses. Wait, those are your glasses.
Speaker 2: It looks like your hands.
Speaker 4: Yeah, try it, they really work.
Speaker 1: Boo Billy says he is seeing things from the tomato
Speaker 1: plant perspective.
Speaker 4: Oh, what's the sick tomatos plant? Once?
Speaker 2: So betive all music? I'm going at my keyboard and
Speaker 2: what the word girl lots tomatos Thanks everyone.
Speaker 4: I think that's exactly what me and my tomato plant need.
Speaker 1: Well, Lingo Kids listeners, Today, we learned that when you
Speaker 1: run into problems with friends, it can be helpful to
Speaker 1: look at things from their perspective or point of view.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the tomato incident? Let us
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Speaker 1: learning together