And we are on the No Robin podcast.

So Elton, how old are you?

Ten years old.

What have you learned recently that you wish everyone would know?

If you have an up, and then you have it down, you know that you can do ups because if you've done it before, you can do it again.

What do you think people should do in order to be happier?

Actively go to therapy. Maybe that therapist is your mom. Maybe that therapist is your aunt. Maybe that therapist is your aunt, maybe it's your uncle. Maybe it's your grandpa. But you have to usually talk to somebody about your feelings to make you feel better. I was getting a little picked on and bullied, and I just decided to go to therapy. It really helped in my mental state. It really helped me be a better person.

Wow. Do you think adults sometimes forget the important things in life?

Oh, totally. Just Just because you have kids and just because you need to take care of them all the time, doesn't mean you can't have fun yourself. You've done so much for them. They got to do something for you or you got to do something for yourself. You got to have more fun. As an But I don't. Having fun is part of life.

What's the big mistake that you see parents make with kids that then kids complain to their friends about?

Well...

Welcome. It's your friend Mel. I'm so happy you're here. Whether you've been listening for a while or someone that you love sent you this episode and you're brand new to the Mel Robbins podcast family, welcome. You are going to absolutely love listening to this episode today. And I'm particularly excited because I know so many of you listen to the Mel Robbins podcast while you've got your families around or you're driving in the car with kids. And this episode in particular is absolutely perfect for you to listen with the kids in your life, whether they're in elementary school or middle school. And I cannot wait for you to meet our guest today. His name is Elton. He's one of my most favorite people on the planet. And the reason why I love him is because he just has this simple wisdom. You ask him his perspective about any situation or anything going on in the world, and it's like, boom. That was exactly what I needed to hear. And as I mentioned, this conversation has been over a year in the making. Because first, Elton had to finish the fourth grade, and second, I had to get him out here.

And so he came out to visit his grandparents, and I was like, Elton, let's make this a twofer. And so here he is. I have known Elton his entire life. I've been wanting him to be on the podcast. I cannot wait for you to hear the simple wisdom and the fact that he has all these little sayings that are actually tools, and you're going to want to steal them. The way he describes things in particular that kids struggle with, it's going to help your kids, and it will definitely help you. So here's how this is going to work. I'm going to ask Elton a few questions. And as I ask Elton questions, I invite you and the people that you love who are listening along with you to answer these questions for yourself, too, because I guarantee you what pops into your mind is going to surprise you. So without further ado, please help me welcome Elton to the Mel Robbins podcast. Podcast.

Thank you for inviting me. I always wanted to be on a podcast.

Okay, great. So how old are you?

Ten years old.

And what grade are you going into? Fifth. And one of the reasons why I wanted to talk to you, Elton, is because you are one of my all-time favorite human beings. Thank you.

You're one of my at least top five.

Top five?

Top five. You're on my Mount Rushmore. Why?

I've never thought of it that way. If you have a top five, there's a Mount Rush more of people. What does that mean to you?

I mean, my mom and my dad, and then there's my friends, and then there's people like you who are just generally nice people.

So what do you enjoy doing in your free time? Before we jump into the way you think about life and middle school and some of the things going on that you wish adults would know, I would just love for everybody to get to know a little bit more about you. What do you like to do?

I like to play some sports, but I'm also a video gamer. I play some Pokémon, I play some Super Mario, I play some baseball, some soccer. And then in real life, I also play some baseball, some soccer, some football. It's just really fun, at least what I think I'm doing, because I'm a people person.

Do you think you were born that way? Just always been that way?

Yeah, because I've always been very interactive. Even since I was five, I was going off to strangers, and I like your shoes.

Do you think it's important to compliment other people and be nice to other people?

Yeah, because it's like karma.

It's like what? Karma.

If you don't share with someone, then they're not going to share with you, or they're not going to be kind with you. Because if I start picking on a kid, they're not going to want to be friends with me because I'm picking on them. If I was that kid, then maybe they would want to be friends with me. But if I'm not, then they won't.

That's true. So what energy you put out there comes back to you?

Yeah, usually.

Usually? Yeah.

Because, at least all I know, we only get one chance, and you got to make it good because If you just decide to be a jerk all your life, then what have you really accomplished? Because you're not being kind to people. You're not going to have many friends, at least. We know how friends helps your mental state. We know that. And so then you're going to be depressed. And that just doesn't feel good, does it? If someone doesn't be a jerk and they're super kind, they're going to have lots of friends. They're going to be invited to a bunch of stuff. Rather, if you're a jerk, nobody wants to be friends with you. You're not going to get invited to stuff because you're just going to be a party pooper. Yeah, you're not going to live life the way you probably want to.

Got it. And what do you think is the most important thing In life?

Kind.

Being kind? Kind.

Yeah, because that determines it all, usually. Because if you're not kind, then people will want to be friends, and then that leads It's like, you get into a whole different story. Then you argue a lot, and then you're mad at people, and then you get mad at yourself, and then that leads to sadness. And like, that's just not very fun.

So- You're a real deep thinker. Yeah. What makes you truly happy, Elton? Friends. Friends? My friends.

Yeah. They are the nicest people I've ever met, and they are just super kind, super supportive. They're into what I'm into, and they are just so nice.

How do you handle the days where you're feeling sad or a little lonely?

How do I... I try to interact with not kids, adults. I try to hang out with some adults. It's a safe place, too.

I think that's a great idea. Do you tell people when you're sad and lonely?

I tell my mom and my dad, not just random strangers. I don't tell my uncle or someone. I tell my mom and my dad, those are my safe keeps.

Got you. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. What do you think an adult should do if they feel sad or lonely?

Honestly, I would hang out with younger, younger kids because they don't know much. And so even shaking this cup would make them laugh.

Got you.

That laugh brings you joy because laughter of a It's contagious.

It's true.

Like, happiness is contagious. If two people start laughing, then four people start laughing, then everybody starts laughing, even if you don't know what the joke is.

That's true. So maybe watch a funny movie or hang out with kids or volunteer or something like that. What do you think people should do in order to be happier?

Well, I did this, and I do this. I go to therapy. I I actively go to therapy. That helps a lot with my mental state, and it helps a lot with being happier. And then one more thing to be happy is I do do this, but not a lot. But spend less time on your phone and scrolling and scrolling, because what is that going to do for you? You're just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. When you could have time outside making new friends, playing, talking.

Tell me, are you comfortable sharing a little bit about what you get out of therapy or why you went?

I just didn't feel happy because I didn't have many friends, and I was getting a little picked on and bullied. And so I just decided to go to therapy, and it really helped in my mental state. It really helped me be a better person. I I still go because I know it helps me be a better person.

Wow. I mean, I go to therapy. I love talking to my therapist. It's one of the reasons why I'm a better mom, and I'm a better friend, and I like myself more because I have somebody that I can talk to.

Talk to about everything, almost.

Yeah.

They're your safe person, that you can just let it all dump out.

Yeah. And sometimes I think it's easier for me, I I don't know how you feel, but I think it's easier for me to just dump it all out with somebody that I'm not related to, you know? Or that's not a friend. Yeah.

They don't know your friends. And therapists are really trustworthy. Yeah. Therapists are like, if you give somebody a very dirty shirt, and after two weeks, which in therapy is like a year or something, that shirt is going to be so clean.

You're the best. You're the best. It's true, because if you keep it all inside, it just- If you keep bottling it up, then you're going to have so many bottles, And you're just going to feel so sad because you have all of this still in you rather than just taking some of it out.

And I know you might still want to bottle things up, and you can bottle some stuff up, just not too much. I have bottled things up, and that hasn't hurt me. But when I bottled too much stuff up, that hurt me. Yeah.

Do you feel more empowered?

I do. And bottling stuff up, this is a terrible comparison, but it's like eating grapes.

What do you mean it's like eating grapes?

You know if you have too many grapes, your stomach hurts? Yes. If I'm going to have six grapes, that's okay. But if I'm going to have 20 grapes, my stomach's going to hurt.

Wow. I think talking to somebody is an incredible way to figure out how to be happy again and how to get support and how to get support from somebody that you don't feel like, Oh, boy, if I tell them this, they're going to be mad at me, or they're going to get upset to know that I'm upset. So how do you How do you think people should think about going to talk to a therapist? Because I think when somebody's like, You know, you should probably go to see a therapist, you're like, what am I, like a big loser?

Yes. That's offensive because It's like, Are you saying something's wrong with me? Maybe you say, Hey, everything feeling all right? And then they say no. And then you say, Oh, maybe you should go to therapy. I I might go, or something. So then you pin the blame on yourself while also pinning it on them.

Great.

So it doesn't feel like, Oh, you need to go to therapy. It's like, instead of like- How about this?

What if you said, Do you think it would help- If you went to there? If you talked to somebody about how you're feeling?

And then they say, What? Like a therapist? And then you say, Yeah, sure. Whatever whatever you think it'll help. And so maybe that therapist is your mom, maybe that therapist is your aunt, maybe it's your uncle, maybe it's your grandpa. But you have to usually talk to somebody about your feelings to make you feel better.

Absolutely. You cannot sit with the feelings and talk to yourself.

Because what's that going to do? You're not going to let them go, and then they come back to you. You got to let them go to somebody, and then they fix it, and they give it back to you.

Correct. It's like that shirt analogy. Exactly. And the other thing is that since the person that you're talking to has worked with and seen, and talked to so many people that have felt exactly how you felt, they actually know you can get better.

Yeah, because they have experience doing this.

When you were sad, and I realize that your mom's a therapist, but when they were like, Do you want to go to therapy? Were you like, What? Or were you like- I said, Sure.

Why not? And I didn't want to go the first couple of days because I thought it was boring, and because all we had to do was talk about our feelings. But then I actually feel better because what we do is, at least in my therapy office, we have this one game that we play. We play Guess Who while talking about our feelings. Really? Yeah.

How does it work?

We play some regular Guess Who. We play like, Does this person have orange hair? Is this person a man? But in between the turns, we talk about like, So how's blank been?

Or how is- Oh, how's school been? Yeah.

So you shove it in there with the games.

Sneaky. I like it. Yeah. That's good. And then so as you're chatting about something else, you all of a sudden find yourself just chatting about how you feel about school, too. Exactly. Super smart strategy. Is there anything else that you've learned talking to somebody who's a therapist about yourself?

Well, I didn't talk to a therapist about this, but last year, I was diagnosed with dysgrapia.

Oh, yeah. Oakley has it.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Oakley has that.

It's a language-based learning difference.

I can't really write as well.

Me either.

I get to type and voice type, and it just really helped me because at the beginning of the year in fourth grade, I was skipping class, not because I was a bad kid, because I couldn't learn, not because I didn't want to, because I couldn't. I physically couldn't learn. So my teachers just thought I was a bad kid. And so they misjudged me is what my mom said. They But then at the end of the year, I got diagnosed, and they were like, Oh, so that's what's wrong with that kid.

Well, it's not even what's wrong.

It's what's the difference. Yeah. Because there's a huge difference between I can't learn and I don't want to learn.

True.

Because if you can't learn, then, yes, you want to learn, but you can't. There is no like, Oh, I'm just not going to I'm trying to listen, but I can't.

You know what I love about what you just said? I've never heard anybody say it that way, but you're right. I can't learn based on how you're trying to teach me. Yeah. But if you change the method of the teaching, it's easy to learn. Yes. And do you know that Oakley- Went to a dysgraphic and dyslexia school, right? Yeah. And he was diagnosed in the fourth grade just like you. That's awesome. And did you know that I also am dyslexic? No. Yes. And I did not find out, Elton, until I was 46 years old. Imagine going through life with-Was It was really hard. You know what was really hard? Is I couldn't understand why things were so hard.

In K through third, everything was easy enough that it was hard, but I got through it. Yes. And then in fourth grade, it was like everything was so hard for everybody. And so that was just like, instead of a slap, that was like a punch. Yes. And I couldn't recover. And then at the end of the year, I finally realized, oh, that's why that has been so hard for my life because I have this.

Yes. And I think about it now, and I was able to get through high school just fine. And then I went to a very competitive college.

Which one?

Dartmouth. And I got there, and it was like, Oh, God. I can't do this. I can't do this. And I would skip classes. I would just make it worse. I would pull these all-nighters. I would leave things to the last minute because I was avoiding it. And then you start to feel like there's something wrong with me. Yeah.

If there's something you hate, You want to do it earlier so you don't have that in your mind. But really, what your brain wants you to do is stay away from it as long as possible, but then it gets stronger and stronger. If you just deal with it right then and there, then it might take you a while, and it might be really hard, but at least you did it.

That's true.

If I have a homework assignment due on Monday, and today is Friday, let's say, I will want to do it maybe tomorrow, not right now, but not on Monday.

I have another question for you. Yes. If you could give one piece of advice to adults, what would it be?

For a lot of my life, my parents have been super, super nice, but there's some moments where I wish they did push me more because I know I could do it. So encouraging your children is a huge part, but you really have to hit them with the double whammy. Let's say they have a learning difference, and it's like, yes, you can do whatever you want, and yes, you are awesome, but some people will pick on you because of this.

Got it. So the double whammy in your mind is always hold out the bigger vision. You can do this You can- But- So let's say a daughter.

You can do everything that your brother can do, let's say. Yeah. But people will talk to you a different way than they do to your brother. That is just part of life. And do not let that bring you down.

If somebody constantly beats themselves up, like they're hard on themselves, were you ever like that with yourself? Yeah, I was. What did What do you use to say to yourself?

I'm not good enough. I need to try harder, even though this is the best I can do. I need to be better. I need to be more in shape. I need to Sure, yes, you do, but you don't need to do that all at once. Maybe you can focus on getting the ball farther now and get in shape later. Because if you do it all at once, you're not going to be able to get any of it done because you got so much... My brother is watching... This is a terrible comparison. My brother is watching six animes at once. He's not going to be able to finish a single one because he is watching six. So if you have six animes and you're watching all of them at once, you're not going to be able to finish them.

True. What one's most important to you of the things that you're working on and that you want to change?

Honestly, I have lied a lot in the past.

Oh, me too.

Because I thought it made me cooler. It didn't. It didn't at all. So I'm trying to tell people the truth more and stuff, and I'm trying to correct what I've done wrong in the past.

I think that is so brave and really inspiring. Thank you. What advice would you give, let's say, to Kendall, who's launching her singer-songwriter career, and she'll put out a song, and it does really well, and then she puts out a song, and it doesn't do as well, and then she puts out another song, and it does really well, and it's the ups and downs. What would you say?

If you have an up, and then you have a down, you know that you can do ups because Because if you've done it before, you can do it again. That's what I say to myself. If I have thrown a MacBook 60 yards and I keep practicing, I might get farther, but I will not go lower.

Got you. So you can do it again. You can do it again. Got it. I love that. What have you learned recently that you wish everyone would know?

Life isn't fair. I mean, because if life was fair, everybody would have the same birthday. Everybody would be the same age, would die at the same time. Everything would be the same.

That's right.

And that isn't fun, is it? Because then if you walk up to a person and you say, What do you like? Sure, they'll like all the same things as you, but you need differences to be friends, because then you need to draw in something new.

So how do you deal with those moments? Because it's right, life isn't fair, and it's a waste of your time or anybody's time to spend any energy getting upset about how unfair life is. Yeah. So how do you deal with those moments, though, when your brother gets something and you don't, or when someone else seems Is it easier for you to have it easier and you struggle with discrafia, or somebody has more money than you do, or they're better at baseball than you are? How do you deal with those things that are unfair?

It's part of life, and you can't do... I mean, yes, you can practice baseball, but I can't unpractice discrafia. So I have to just deal with it and practice and practice and practice. And yes, that will be harder for me. I have to try almost because that's part of my lifestyle. I try my hardest, and sometimes I'm not good enough, and that is fine. Like, maybe if I keep trying, I will be better. And then if I keep trying and I'm not good enough, then that's just like, Oh, well, I can't do this. I cannot make a three-point to save my life. That is just not me.

So Do you think if you kept practicing, eventually, you'd be able to do it? Yes.

I've never wanted to be a three-point shooter. People are like, Oh, I want to be Steph Curry. I'm not aiming for the high, the really high. I'm aiming for what's good enough. Because if people are going to go for the really high road, yes, you probably can do it. Yes, it will be a lot harder. But if that That's a lot harder. You're more likely to give up. Oh. Because if you keep doing it and it's so hard, then you're just going to eventually decide to just give up.

Yes. If I am listening and hearing you correctly, if what you want to do is be Steph Curry, and you want to just drop the three-pointers all day long, and you want to spend 10,000 hours working on the three-point shot, and you want to be the best in the world, if you never stop, eventually, you'll- You will do it. You will do it. But For most of us, if we aim too high, we quit too soon. Exactly. And so your philosophy is to shoot for good enough. And you said, My lifestyle is to try. What does that mean?

I try never to not try. I always try to try.

Why is trying?

Because some people are like, if they really don't want to do something, they don't try. But even if I don't want to do something, I still try to do it and see, Oh, I'm actually good at this. And then maybe if I'm good at it, I'll like it. But if I really suck at basketball, I wouldn't like it because I'm terrible at it.

Well, I think that's an interesting thing that most adults don't realize about video games, that a lot of kids and people play them, you, Oakley, because you're good at them. Yeah. And we naturally like doing the things that we're good at.

Yeah. There's usually a job for almost everything. There's a job for video games. There is a job for coding There's a job for this. There's a job for making these cups. There's a job for ironing. There is a job for almost everything. So if you're really good at something, I would try, at least, is Just try, if you want to do it, to pursue that. If that doesn't work out, try to almost... If you're not the best at this thing, but you can do it, take a thing that you're less You're good at, and then keep doing that cycle. And like, finally, you get to something you're terrible at, keep trying and trying. And now you have the momentum to say, I can do this.

You know what, Elton, you just described my career. I literally started my career as a lawyer. That's what I used to do. And then I changed because I didn't like that, and I went and I worked in the startup business, and then I didn't like that, and I went and did something else, and then I didn't like that, and I went and did something else. And like 19 job changes later, I combined them all, and now I host this podcast. And you know, funny thing about dyslexia, I don't write my books, I dictate them. And then I edit on paper. I can't write or type out my thoughts. I have to speak them. This show is in a hundred and 94 countries, and there's so many... I know. That's a lot. That's a lot of countries. And there's so many people that listen to this show and then send episodes to people that they love. First, I want you to talk to the adults, and what do you want them to know if they think that there is a kid in their life, whether it's a child, or a niece, or a nephew, or somebody that's in their class that just seems really sad or seems like they're not themselves?

What do you want adults to know, and what do you think adults should do if they're worried about someone? Because you've been in a situation where you were sad.

And I have a really good answer to that, I think. So what didn't help me was is talking to a teacher saying, Are you sad? You don't want to admit that in front of the entire class because how does that feel? It doesn't feel good. Maybe you help them out, and then you see them crack a smile, and if you keep doing that, then they're smiling again. Okay. But if that doesn't work, then you take them out of class for a second Then you say, not, Are you sad? Is everything all right?

Is everything all right? Yeah. You don't seem like yourself. Yeah.

Because if you know them as a very happy kid, Yeah. And they're just feeling really sad. You know something's wrong. So you don't say, Are you sad? Because you know they're sad. You know this. And you ask, Is everything all right? Because you know something isn't right.

Yes. Do you think adults sometimes forget the important things in life?

Oh, totally. Like, just because you have kids and just because You need to take care of them all the time. Doesn't mean you can't have fun yourself. Because I see all these parents spending all their time with their kids, and like, try maybe be getting your kids because you've done so much for them. They got to do something for you or you got to do something for yourself because otherwise, you're just going to be there with your kids, not happy, and then that's going to make them not happy.

So you need to have more fun.

You got to have more fun as an adult, because I know you may think that's a teenager or a kid thing. No, it isn't. Having fun is part of life. Anything that you think is fun will help you.

What's the big mistake that you see parents make with kids that then kids complain to their friends about?

My mom's always trying to control me. My dad's always trying to control me because they try to set you up for a path to success. Yes, that is nice, but you should let them choose what their path to success is. You don't have to say, Oh, you're going to play basketball. Oh, you're going to be a They can choose. What if they want to be a dentist? That is not basketball. That is not math. That is dentists. Let them choose what they want to do, and then you can help them.

I agree because I believe the best form of success is being happy in your life.

Exactly. Because who doesn't want to be happy if you think about it? You don't want to be sad. Like, especially at my camp. They don't say, Treat others how you want to be treated. Treat others how they want to be treated. If you love to be tickled-I don't like to be tickled.

Exactly. Do you like to be tickled? No.

Yeah, me neither. If my mom loves to be tickled, she wouldn't tickle me because treat others how they want to be treated.

I love that. That's true, because we assume how we want to be treated is how- Treated is how they want to be treated.

But at my camp, they say, No, that's bogus.

You also were talking last night at dinner with your mom about the pizza strategy. What is this? The pizza? What's it called?

The pizza strategy. What is that? So if, let's say, I'm in a group chat and somebody starts talking about Ashley. So they're talking about Ashley. They're saying mean things about Ashley. So the pizza strategy is like, it's like training a baby. If they're looking at something they And you literally just go like, Hey, look at that light, or like, Look at that. But in this case, where are we going for pizza tomorrow? And then they start talking about pizza. They forget about Ashley, start talking about pizza. Got it. And you can do that with anything.

So the pizza strategy is a technique that you can use if you've got a bunch of people that are gossiping, or they're saying bad things about somebody, or they're trashing somebody in a group chat, instead of jumping in- And saying, No, that's not right, because nobody actually wants to do that.

It just doesn't feel good because those are your friends. And if you say that, you think that they're going to like, get you because you're being a goody two shoes or something.

Right. And it's true because we all know that when people are gossiping about someone else, that- You should stand up for them. You should stand up for them. But like, if- But a lot of us don't. Yeah. And so the pizza strategy- is basically doing it without actually doing it. So you change the topic.

You change the topic, yeah.

And then everybody just follows you because you say, Hey, what are we doing this weekend? Or You just don't even respond to the comment about Ashley.

Exactly. You just like, distract them.

I love that. I absolutely love that. And how do you make new friends? You're about to go to summer camp, and you're going to be gone on for three weeks, and you're going to have all these new people. Do you have a particular strategy that you use for how you make friends?

Well, yes, and... Kind of. So, at least It's worked in kindergarten. Okay. So what you did in kindergarten is you walked up to a kid, you said, Hey, you want to be friends? They said, Sure. And you just built off from there. Yeah. That is literally just what you did.

Okay.

But I think at camp, you're going to meet so many new people, and you will meet someone through a clinic or meet someone through a team or a play. Because if that literally shows that you're interested in what I'm interested, can we be friends? That is what that is.

So you going and doing things like signing up to be part of the play. Yeah. All the kids that are part of the play are also interested in being in a play. Exactly. Yes.

Because why would they sign up for the play if they're not interested for the play?

True. And so you've got that first step, which is you sign up for things you're interested in, and then you know the people that are there are also interested. So you got that. But how do you determine then next, like who you want to spend more time with, and who you're like, maybe not my person.

You talk to a bunch of people. You just float around. You don't just stick with one person. Because then, if that one apple that you've been saving even turns bad, then you got nowhere else to turn.

Oh, so you don't want to put all- Your saving is...

You don't want to put all your money in this one bet.

Got it.

Once you know someone, then you can take it a step further and put some more money on that bet.

Yeah, put some more time in there. Yeah.

And then you start hanging on with another one, but you bring your buddy with you. So then you have a bigger group of friends. And if you keep repeating that, then you're going to have a lot of friends.

You're a genius. Has anyone ever told you that?

Sawyer. Sawyer.

My daughter Sawyer. I have a question for you. One of the biggest I get from people around the world is they write in and say, I'm really stuck in my life, and I actually don't know what I should do with my life.

So, what my dad has told me, at least, is I didn't find my passion until I was like, 40. It is out there.

What do you mean by it's out there? Because I think you're right. Because like- Do you believe everybody has something?

Something that they can do. Everybody has something. Bees pollinate plants, and lions eat stuff, and that helps us from-and that helps animals from overpopulating. Like, everything has their part.

Yes.

And That is how it just works.

And so what is one thing that you would want them to start doing? If I take your philosophies, right? Yeah. You've shared so many cool things with us, Elton. If I take some of your philosophies, and I especially love the good enough and the trying, what would you recommend somebody do today to take one step forward toward figuring out what that thing that's their thing could be?

Listen to Mel Robin's podcast. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. But go outside and meet some new people, because those people could be your people. They could introduce you to something that you love. They could introduce you to your future job, your future wife, your future husband. It could be like anything, basically.

So basically, get out of your comfort zone?

Go out of your comfort zone to do something.

Shift the energy. What world do you hope to help create, Elton?

I hope to create a kinder world, because you can't just be kind. You have to actually feel kind. I remember in Maine, I helped a grandma over a little puddle by building a bridge of sand. That made me feel kind. If you just let the grandma step in the puddle, what are you? You don't gain anything from that. That grandma now just has wet socks, and nobody likes wet socks. Imagine you're that grandma, too. Would you want someone to be right there, could have helped you, but didn't? Exactly.

It's powerful. Yeah.

Kindness is so powerful.

Is there anything else you want to share as your parting words?

Be kind and don't let anyone stop That's it. All you all there, have a great day, have a great month, have a great year, and we love you.

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