Episode 14. Kindness and Friendship

In this episode, a child reflects on friendship, kindness, and the challenges of relationships at school, alongside moments of learning, performance, and change.

The conversation explores what kindness means and how people can change when they are supported, listened to, and included. The child shares views on bullying, conflict, and how friendships can shift over time, including moments where disagreements were resolved and situations improved through teacher support.

There are also honest reflections on friendship difficulties, misunderstandings, and feeling excluded, balanced with examples of resolution and moving forward. The child describes school life more broadly, including moving into a new learning space, participating in group activities, and preparing for a Christmas concert performance.

The episode closes with reflection on learning Irish songs and how new skills feel challenging at first but become easier with practice and time.

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Transcript

So for now, in January, we will be in Ghanoubami. Hi, how are you? Would you like to be my friend? I was in the podcast. Time is running.

How are you? How are you? How is going on? How is the things? Good. All right. Have you ever heard about the kindness and friendship? Yes.

What do you think about it? I think it's really nice and that can change someone. Like if someone is like bullying you a lot, and if you tell someone to help you, but they keep bullying you, they can change because of a poster of kindness and friendship. They might just start to be kind and then you guys might become best friends.

You guys will connect, so things can change with your bully. So I think it's good and nice. Do you remember our last 10 weeks we spent together? I mean... Yeah.

Do you remember something? Um, my favorite one is when we first came up here. Remember when we were downstairs and then we came upstairs and here and then the room was so big and I loved it because now you move to a bigger space. The one we played last week, where you say your name and you say something beginning with the first letter of your name.

Do you remember yours? Yes. Mine is never give up. I'm nice.

Nice for my name starts with an N. I can be angry sometimes because there's this girl in my classroom, like she just likes to annoy me and she likes to annoy Priya. Like they beef a lot. Like today, beefing so much that they both snitched on each other and I was involved in this, but I was involved in the beefing because it started because she wouldn't do her work and sometimes we can just say sorry to each other and then like then we just become best friends and then yeah, but sometimes she can really annoy me.

But all the rest guys in your class are nice? Actually no, because two of my friends said that they don't want to be friends with me anymore and then and then they just started to talk behind my back and I told my teacher today and we solved it, but she said boom, but my my and they said that it's unfixable because they think because there's this guy named Joseph in my classroom. Like she thinks they both think that I'm talking about them when I'm not, but we're just like talking about like we're just talking and talking about our weekend and our day. He has a little brother and stuff so we just talk, talk, talk, talk, but like it's really it's like it was annoying because they talked behind my back and they just and she's and Salma she's telling everyone not to be my friend, but she stopped today because my teacher told her and then after that I got to see the sixth class and the second class Christmas concert performance for Wednesday, this Wednesday.

Ours is Candy Cane Lane and Merry Christmas everyone, but in Irish. It is not hard at all, but when you're new to something it can be hard, but when you learn it's really easy. It was hard first and then now it's really easy.