Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Kindness Collection Season 1, Episode 10: Mister Rogers Talks About Friends

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Mister Rogers Goes to School

Helping Children Know What to Expect at School (1463) Mister Rogers helps children understand that learning and play go hand in hand.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Superheroes

Understanding What's Real and What's Pretend (1466) Mister Rogers talks about dinosaurs. He mentions that as a child, he would make up stories about things that scared him. He explains that dinosaurs don't live on earth anymore!

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Mister Rogers Makes an Opera

Creating With Friends is Different Than Playing Alone (1473) In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Neighbors create costumes for the upcoming opera and remember times when they helped each other.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Divorce

Fantasies Are Often More Scary Than Reality (1478) In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri organizes a search for Prince Tuesday and the unhappy Prince is finally found.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Competition

Jealousy and Other Feelings About Winning and Losing (1485) In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday announces the winner of the "Draw the Neighborhood" contest and awards a very unusual prize to everyone—a rainbow.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Play

Play is the Work of Childhood (1486) Mister Rogers discusses the importance of play in a child's life.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Pets

Respecting All Living Creatures (1497) Bob Trow brings his dog Barney to meet Mister Rogers before leaving him overnight, and Mister Rogers shows a film of children and their pets!

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Mister Rogers Talks About Make-Believe

Everyone is Creative in Some Way (1503) There's lots of singing in the Neighborhood today as everyone is thinking about the upcoming opera and remembering past ones.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Friends

Ups and Downs of Friendship (1506) Mister Rogers helps his young viewers understand that even though friendships don't always run smoothly, they're an important and healthy part of life!

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Mister Rogers Talks About Friends

Ups and Downs of Friendship (1507) Mister Rogers visits with his friend and Neighbor, Mr. McFeely.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Games

Learning About Rules and Limits (1512) Mister Rogers puts together a rocking chair with Bob Trow, and later plays a Stop-and-Go game with his television viewers!

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Mister Rogers Talks About Work

Feelings About Work, Money and Choices (1528) Mister Rogers has a leak in his kitchen faucet and works to fix it. In Make-Believe, there's a lot of different kinds of work to do to build the swimming pool.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Grandparents

Appreciating the People Who Came Before (1534) Mister Rogers talks about some of the different names children call their grandparents.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Food

Food and Love Go Hand in Hand (1539) Mister Rogers visits a factory to see how people make vegetable soup and he identifies different types of vegetables.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Music

Music as a Way to Express Feelings (1548) A Neighborhood friend, Ella Jenkins, teaches Mister Rogers a rhythmic clapping game.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Families

Families Come in Different Shapes and Sizes (1551) While planting a seed, Mister Rogers talks about how long it takes for plants to grow and that learning to wait is important.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Making and Creating

Being Creative is Part of Being Human (1558) Mister Rogers shows how people make wooden rocking horses.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Celebrations

Celebrating Big and Little Things (1561) In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, there's a visiting trumpeter! King Friday declares that an approaching comet belongs to him and decrees a week of celebrating.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Playthings

Lots of Different Things For Play and Pretending (1567) Mister Rogers visits a toy factory where people make plastic molded tricycles, and he receives a visit from folk singer Ella Jenkins.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Dance

Express Feelings Through Movement (1571) Mister Rogers suggests that there are many things to do when it's raining, such as reading a book, drawing a picture or just watching the "dancing" drops of rain.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Alike and Different

Each Person is Unique—Yet We All Have Much in Common (1583) Actor Bob Trow, who plays Bob Dog, stops by to demonstrate how Bob Dog and real dogs are alike and different.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Nighttime

Concerns About Nighttime and Other Scary Things (1586) Mister Rogers pretends it is nighttime in his house as he turns out the lights, pulls out his sofa bed, and checks underneath it for "monsters."

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Mister Rogers Talks About Nighttime

Concerns About Nighttime and Other Scary Things (1588) Mister Rogers talks about scuba divers who explore the ocean's perpetual darkness.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Kindness and Unkindness

Being Kind to Ourselves and Others (1593) Exercise teacher Marilyn Barnett and her young students show Mister Rogers some fancy jump-rope tricks.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Secrets

Nobody Knows What You're Thinking Unless You Tell Them (1597) Mr. McFeely creates a treasure hunt for Mister Rogers, and he follows the clues around his house.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Fun and Games

Games Can Be Fun, But Not If You're Left Out (1601) Mister Rogers visits folk musicians Andy Holiner and Alice Johnson at a sing-along.

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Mister Rogers Presents Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe

Helping Children Feel Good About Who They Are (1607) Mister Rogers visits a film processing plant to learn how people turn an unexposed roll of film into finished photographs.

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Mister Rogers Talks About When Parents Go to Work

Parents Love Their Children Even When They Can't Be With Them (1613) In Make-Believe, there are plans to open a "caring center" for children whose parents are at work.

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Mister Rogers Talks About the Environment

Recycling and Other Ways to Care for Our Planet (1617) Mister Rogers and Mr. McFeely sort their garbage and take it to a recycling center to see what happens to discarded bags, bottles, and cans.

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Mister Rogers Talks About Mouths and Feelings

Learning to Take Care of Yourself (1630) Mister Rogers plays with a toy earth mover and shows a video of a real earth-moving machine digging a huge hole. These big machines almost seem to have "teeth" of their own!

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Mister Rogers Talks About Art

We All Have Art Inside of Us (1643) Mister Rogers shows toy planes and reads a book about going on an airplane. He visits a skywriter who shows him how she creates images in the sky!