00:00Every morning in Miss Grace's class was full of fun and laughter.
00:04But one week something very wrong started happening in the playground outside.
00:10His name was Max, and Max had decided that the slide belonged to him.
00:15Only him. And nobody else was allowed to use it.
00:19Hey! This slide is mine!
00:22You cannot play here. Go away, Ethan. Find somewhere else.
00:26This area is only for me and my friends.
00:30Ethan felt something heavy in his tummy.
00:32He did not understand why Max was being so mean.
00:36He had done absolutely nothing wrong at all.
00:41Give it back, Max!
00:43That is my lunchbox!
00:45Please! It was a present from my mom!
00:47You have no right to take my things!
00:49Lily saw everything. Her fists clenched.
00:53Her heart was beating very fast.
00:55She knew this was wrong.
00:56But what could one small girl do?
00:59Max! Put the lunchbox down please!
01:02What you are doing is called bullying.
01:04And I am going to tell Miss Grace right now if you do not stop.
01:09What's this? Someone standing up to me?
01:11Bullies feel powerful when nobody speaks.
01:13But the moment one brave person stands up, the bully's power shrinks.
01:16Lily knew this without even realizing it.
01:19It's okay, Ethan. Let's go inside.
01:21Thank you, Lily. I felt so alone out there. I did not know what to do.
01:25Why did Max do that? What did I do wrong?
01:29You did nothing wrong, Ethan.
01:31Bullies do not hurt people because of anything the other person did.
01:34They do it because they feel bad inside themselves.
01:39Class, today we are going to talk about something very important.
01:44Something that might be happening to someone in this very room right now.
01:49It had happened to Lily, too.
01:51Three days ago, Sarah had looked at Lily's painting and whispered something that felt like a sharp, cold stone.
01:59That looks so weird.
02:01Lily had stopped painting that day.
02:03Her favorite thing in the world, stopped, because of six words from one person who wanted to make her feel
02:08small.
02:08Lily?
02:10Yeah!
02:11Class, I want you to look at this painting.
02:13This was made by someone in our class.
02:16And it is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
02:19Lily could not believe it.
02:21The painting she thought was terrible.
02:23Her classmates were looking at it like it was something truly wonderful and special.
02:29When someone uses words to make you feel small, it tells you everything about them.
02:33It tells you nothing true about you.
02:36Remember this always, Lily.
02:41So, Miss Grace, mean words are like, like mud someone throws at you.
02:45It makes them dirty for throwing it, not you for being hit.
02:48Mean words belong to the person who says them.
02:50They do not belong to the person who hears them.
02:52Wow, really?
02:53That's so cool!
02:55But there was one more type of bully that Miss Grace wanted the class to understand.
02:59The quietest bully of all.
03:02The one nobody notices at first.
03:04Nobody hit Zane.
03:06Nobody said mean words to Zane.
03:08But every single day they turned their backs.
03:11And that silence hurt more than any word could.
03:14Ethan watched Zane and felt something in his chest.
03:18He knew that feeling.
03:19That invisible feeling.
03:21Like you are standing in a room where nobody can see you.
03:25Hi.
03:26I am Ethan.
03:27We were just gonna play on the slide.
03:29Do you wanna come with us?
03:31We have space for one more.
03:33Hmph.
03:34It took Ethan six words to change Zane's entire day.
03:38Six words!
03:39Do you wanna come with us?
03:41Six words that cost absolutely nothing at all.
03:44Max, is someone at home making you feel the way you made Ethan feel today?
03:50Because children who feel safe and loved, they do not need to make others feel small.
03:56And Hess understood something new.
03:59Bullies are not born mean.
04:00Something hurt them first.
04:02But it explains everything.
04:04The next morning, Ethan saw Max standing alone.
04:07He thought about what Miss Grace had said.
04:09He took a deep breath.
04:10And he walked toward Max slowly.
04:14Being brave is not just standing up to bullies.
04:17Sometimes being brave means being kind to them too.
04:20That is the hardest kind of brave there is.
04:22Come on.
04:22If someone is being mean to you, tell a grown up you trust.
04:27See you tomorrow in Miss Grace World.
04:29Bye friends.
04:30Bye.
