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Hi! I'm Eden, I'm seven years old. Come and meet my family.
SHE PANTS
Still more to go! Finally, we're here! Come on! We live in London. I have a little sister called Ava, and she's five.
Eden, I can't wait to bake!
Ava and I are really close. We even share a bedroom! We live with our daddy. Our daddy is super strong! And he's a personal trainer, and he's so tall! We also live with our mummy. She's a make-up artist.
Girls, do you know what we're making today? I've got bananas.
Banana cake!
This is our family. My favourite thing about my family is that, erm, we're…
Funny!
EDEN: We all respect each other. Respectful is being kind, and it's a really nice way to show people that you love them.
Here, Mummy.
Well done.
And peel, and get the yukky bit.
Thank you! We're going to smash it up. So, who's going to go first?
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me!
Me, me, me, me!
OK, OK, OK, OK. We can't both go first, so can you choose between yourselves?
When Ava does one banana and she finishes, then I'm going to do the next banana. We take it in turns so it can be fair, so that Ava gets a turn to choose sometimes and I get a turn to choose sometimes.
It's important to share, because if I was playing with a beautiful doll and Ava was like, "Can I have a turn?" and I was like, "No," she would feel left out of my game because she didn't have a doll to play with.
And I would be very sad and I would just play on my own. Ohhh… I want to put it in, because Ava put…
OK. "I want" doesn't get, so how do we say it nicely?
Please can I put it in?
Oh, you're so polite. Well done.
Mummy and Daddy always make sure that we say please and thank you and be respectful.
Pour… the mixture. Mummy?
Thank you. I'm going to pop it in the oven!
Close the oven!
OK, so girls, whilst that's in the oven, I'm going to go and have a rest, OK?
OK.
Don't eat the cake without me!
I listen to my mummy and respect the fact that she wants space. When you have some time on your own, how does it make you feel?
It makes me feel very relaxed. And when I'm not stressed, then I can play all the fun games with you and enjoy my time with you.
Girls, the cake is ready!
BOTH: Yay!
MUMMY: It wasn't supposed to turn out like… Uh-oh!
I'm taking this.
What do you think? Nice?
Mm! So good!
The cake didn't turn out how we thought it was supposed to be, but it is very yummy!
I hope you enjoyed meeting our family and learning how we are respectful to each other.
ALL: Bye!
Showing respect
Video summary
Meet 7-year-old Eden, her younger sister, Ava, and their parents. Eden talks about the meaning and importance of boundaries and respect for others and shows us how she and the members of her family respect each other.
Teacher Notes
The Notes below are taken from the full Teachers' Notes document.
Learning objective
To demonstrate the importance of respect, and how to show respect to other people.
Key questions
Before watching the video:
- What does ‘respect’ mean?
- Why is it is important to show respect towards other people?
- How do we show respect towards other people?
During / after the video:
- How does Eden show that she respects the people in her family?
- How do they show Eden that they respect her?
- How do Eden and Ava make sure things are fair for each other?
- How do Eden and Ava show respect for their mummy when she is tired?
- How do you think that makes their mummy feel?
After the video:
- What does Eden show us that respect means?
- Which words do we use when we show someone respect?
- How do we behave when we are showing respect?
- How does it feel when someone respects your feelings?
- How do you show respect to people in your family?
- Who else should we show respect to?
- How can you show respect to other people / people in school? (This could also link with sharing and making sure people feel included, as shown in the film).
Suggested activities
- Establish all the things which show that someone is demonstrating respect to someone else (words and behaviours). Pick out key behaviours such as listening, looking at them, making positive comments about things they say, asking for things using ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, asking for permission, sharing, etc.
- Role play different scenarios to show someone in the same scenario being / not being respectful, and ask those watching how they can tell the difference.
- Make a Respect wall, tree, flower or similar. Children can add to it by drawing or writing on ‘bricks’, ‘leaves’ or ‘petals’, etc things which they can do or have done to show respect to someone else, or that someone else has done to show respect towards them.
- Draw pictures of all the people in the children’s networks and communities that they show respect to - eg family members, teachers, shop workers, nurses and doctors, bus drivers, one another, etc.
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