Speaker 1: Hello, Elliott, your tomato plant is really growing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost so.
Speaker 3: Now you've been taking such good care of it. What's
Speaker 3: your secret?
Speaker 2: Oh, we don't have any secrets. 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 2: Oh? Well, I water it every morning.
Speaker 4: I could weigh any brown leaves.
Speaker 2: 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 2: Sure, I'll be right there. I just need to fish
Speaker 2: clipping off these dead leaves.
Speaker 5: Ooh, your to mothers look ready, tats almost.
Speaker 2: They're still a little green. Maybe one more day. It
Speaker 2: smells soup to Modoie, Elliott.
Speaker 3: It smells delicious. They smell disgusting. No offense, Elliott, I
Speaker 3: just hate tomatoes, what not?
Speaker 2: Lisa, to mothers are the secret green. I'm all the
Speaker 2: best flush in the World.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: I like candy.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll try just one. Not yet, Lisa, we have
Speaker 4: to wait until our ripe. Okay, then enough tomato talk.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to ride? Yep? 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really flew in from behind.
Speaker 3: Hey, where is Callie?
Speaker 5: I'm sure no one will notice if I just takest
Speaker 5: one little to moto. Yeah, these are so good, Kellie,
Speaker 5: what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Are you eating Elliott's tomatoes?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: The wind blew all the tomatoes onto the ground, so
Speaker 5: I was saving them with your mouth.
Speaker 2: Don't tell Ellie, it can be our secret. Hey, everybody
Speaker 2: want race again?
Speaker 5: Like tomato Bland, Elliott, Kelly, I try and rescue it
Speaker 5: big when all the tomatoes and they just rolled away.
Speaker 3: Rolled away.
Speaker 2: But I didn't feel a big wind.
Speaker 3: It was just a right here wind Billy says that
Speaker 3: is not how wind works.
Speaker 2: I don't understand what happened.
Speaker 1: Where are my tomatoes, asked Calie Cawie.
Speaker 2: Teacher, you know my tomatoes? Why would you do that?
Speaker 2: I thought you were my friend.
Speaker 4: Friends don't eat other friends tomatoes.
Speaker 2: I have to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Bye, Cowie. It looks like you're feeling sad.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to try the tomatoes.
Speaker 5: They are my favorite.
Speaker 2: Now my friends hate me.
Speaker 3: I hear what you're saying, and I don't think they
Speaker 3: hate you.
Speaker 1: Maybe it would help to think about it from a
Speaker 1: different perspective, but I.
Speaker 2: 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 2: No, I'm only just Cowie.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: Glasses like this.
Speaker 1: Yes, now look through your perspective glasses and pretend you
Speaker 1: are elliot. Pretend you worked really hard to take care
Speaker 1: of your tomato plant.
Speaker 2: I can do that.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm wandering and humming.
Speaker 1: Just like Eliot exactly, and still tending your Elliott, how
Speaker 1: do you feel about the tomatoes growing on that plant, crowd,
Speaker 1: I'm also excited, okay. And now imagine that you go
Speaker 1: off to play with your friends and when you come back,
Speaker 1: the tomatoes are gone.
Speaker 2: No, I feel sad and angry and.
Speaker 5: Yes, well now that I see it from Elliott's perspective,
Speaker 5: but I can't believe I did that. Yeah, the tomatoes
Speaker 5: just look so good.
Speaker 2: It tasted so good. I just couldn't stop.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to stop when you really really want something.
Speaker 5: 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 5: I'm gonna tell Elliott, even if he doesn't want to
Speaker 5: be my friend anymore. Elliot, Cowie, Elliott, really really really sorry.
Speaker 2: I ate your tomatoes.
Speaker 4: I was going to share them with everyone, Cowie, and
Speaker 4: now they're all gone.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Elliott should have put on my glasses.
Speaker 3: 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 2: But I don't even have a purse, I have a backpack.
Speaker 5: Perspective means thinking about how you would feel. Oh, you
Speaker 5: worked really hard to grow those tomatoes, so you felt
Speaker 5: really bad when I ate them up.
Speaker 4: I think Cowie is sorry, but I also think the
Speaker 4: tomatoes are gone.
Speaker 3: Great idea.
Speaker 1: Billy Billy says that maybe Cowie can help Elliott grow
Speaker 1: more tomatoes.
Speaker 3: Do you need any.
Speaker 2: 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 5: Okay, I'll put on my glasses.
Speaker 3: Wait, those are your glasses. It looks like your hands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, try it, they really work.
Speaker 1: Boo Billy says he is seeing things from the tomato
Speaker 1: plant perspective.
Speaker 3: Oh, what's to say?
Speaker 2: Tomatos?
Speaker 1: Plant?
Speaker 2: Once?
Speaker 3: So be youive all music? I'm going at my keyboard.
Speaker 2: And what the word girls? Tomos?
Speaker 4: Thanks everyone, I think that's exactly what me and my
Speaker 4: tomato plant needs.
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: kids dot com. Join us next episode to continue play
Speaker 1: learning together