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Yes, I have told someone something about a person that was not true, and I thought about it and I told everyone it was not true. I said I was sorry. What would you do?

I have never spread a rumor because it would hurt someone's feelings. I didn’t really like this story because it is not like me.

Does saying you are sorry always fix everything or is it sometimes its not enough…

   It depends what the problem is because if it was really bad then it’s not always enough. If, by accident, a friend tells you a secret and then you tell a friend that secret to another person, and she tells someone else, but that girl tells no one then it’s not enough. Tommy had to pick up all the feathers, but he didn’t. Mr. Peabody was just showing his punishment. In this story sorry is not enough.

Once when my sister had a friend over. I wanted to make friends with her. Theresa [my sister] said to her friend “she does not like you. She told me.”
 I was very embarrassed, and upset. I went in my room and was flaming red. Then Theresa’s friend came out and saw me upset. She said I know you like me. Don’t listen to your sister. Sometimes she can be crazy! Then I became a close friend with her.

Sometimes saying you’re sorry isn’t enough. Sometimes there are consequences to what you’ve done. The consequence of Tommy's action was to cut open a pillow, let thousands of feathers blow around in the wind, and pick them all up again. This was just because he was spreading a rumor about Mr. Peabody being a thief. I think I liked this story because it was interesting and exciting. I hope to read another book like it someday.

Rumors are hurtful. In Mr.Peabody’s Apples by Madonna Tommy spreads a rumor about Mr.Peabody that he was stealing apples. This was not true. Rumors mostly always not true. They can really hurt someone feelings. Rumors are bad choices.

I’ve called my little brother Michael mean stuff and he never cared. But he might have cared inside but not showed it, or he was too young to understand. Now all my friends think he is what I called him.

Have you ever called somebody something they're not and told everybody about it?

When someone talks about me with someone else I feel very hurt, but than to make everything hurt more they spread a rumor about it.
My mom always told me when your saying sorry the only thing your really doing is saying words. She says it's easier to say something than to really mean it with your heart.
Unfortunately yes, some people have spread rumors about me. It has made me feel upset, taken advantage of, but mostly I fee damaged like a dead leaf.

When I won the math bee almost everyone said I cheated, but I didn’t. That kind of annoyed me because it wasn’t true.

Someone who didn’t know me well said that I was in second grade because I was by a second grade classroom and because I am short. Later when he found out that I was in third grade, he felt bad and I told him that just because I was by a second grade classroom and because I am short doesn’t mean I am younger.

Before you knew that Mr. Peabody was paying for his apple, did you think that he was a thief like Timmy thought?

This had happened to me and I was upset and confused why this girl did it. She told Miranda that I would kiss her in the sixth grade. It took me two days to convince Miranda and was never the girl’s friend again.
Have you ever told a rumor about your friend or another kid in your class or school?

One time I accused someone of something to do with orange peels but I wasn’t the only one accusing him of doing it. I was wrong because no one knows who did it yet. I learned not to accuse someone if your not sure if they did it.

When my brother says things about me that are very mean and untrue, it makes me very sad because it makes me think that he hates me, and I know that he doesn’t hate me.

Unfortunately, people have spread rumors about me. I know that is really sad when people do that because it isn’t true. People keep saying it is but they really don’t even know. The person never apologized for it.

Do you think that spreading rumors is nice if something isn’t even true?

If something were true would you spread a rumor about it? If you did how do you think the person would feel?

          I spread a rumor when I said that someone sat in the front seat of the bus because they were naughty, but he just needed help with his homework. I regretted it when the bus driver said that it was not true and the person felt hurt and sad. Then I learned my lesson.

One time my friends accused me of something that wasn’t true. It made me feel angry. But later I made up with my friends.

Yes, one time I said something that I found out wasn’t true and I wanted to take it back and it wasn’t easy to take back.
Did you ever hear a rumor spread about you and then spread a rumor about the person who first said the rumor? Why do you think you did that?
 When you first heard the story, did you think that Mr. Peabody really stole the apples or did you think the apples were prepaid?
Do you think the rumor about Mr. Peabody “stealing” apples spread? Did it hurt his reputation? Wouldn’t you feel hurt? Wouldn’t it hurt your reputation if someone spread a rumor about you? Wouldn’t you be hurt?

Once when I was carrying a glass to the kitchen, I dropped the glass in the living room. My little sister called me a klutz. It made me feel bad. I told her how I felt and she said she was sorry, but it wasn’t enough. My feelings were still hurt. But she is my sister, so I forgave her.

Someone spread something bad about me and it wasn‘t true. I felt very bad, and I got very hurt, so I never talked to the person again. Would you never talk to the person again?

1. Do you lie? Lying is a bad thing to do. When you lie your friends do not trust you. Some lies lead to rumors and it gets bigger. They hurt the person that did the wrong thing.

Rumors won’t just hurt the person that you are telling the rumor about. It can sometimes hurt you too for telling people about the rumor. Rumors can really hurt people when you tell something about them that are not true. Sometimes people tell rumors about people to act cool and if you do that you can lose your friends. If you tell rumors just to kid around some people can take it seriously and won’t trust you anymore.

After reading Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna one of the pillars I could relate to the story was Trust. A trustworthy person would be honest. Mr. Peabody trusted Tommy not to tell lies like I trust all of my friends not to tell lies. A trustworthy person would be liked because they wouldn’t tell lies to their friends or about them. Mr. Peabody was a very honest man and had a lot of friends. When Tommy saw Mr. Peabody take an apple and not pay for it he immediately thought Mr. Peabody was stealing. I think Tommy should have asked Mr. Peabody before he told his friends and a lot of people in Happville. That is what I would have trusted my friends to do. Tommy learns that what he did was wrong when Mr. Peabody tells him to cut open a pillow and shake out the feathers. After Tommy does that Mr. Peabody tells Tommy to collect all the feathers. Tommy thinks that is impossible then realizes what he has done. Mr. Peabody then says, “It didn’t matter what it looks like what matters is the truth.”

Respect is when you do not touch anyone’s things without asking. You don’t tell anything about someone that is not true. Respect is also the opposite of what Tommy was doing. Respecting people is not doing anything that would hurt someone.

Choose your words wisely. Don’t choose words that you know will hurt someone’s feelings. Don’t let the power of words interfere with yourself. If someone says words that you know are wrong, try not to listen. If you do hear the words that you know are bad don’t say them even though your friend or someone might have said the words. In the book Mr. Peabody’s Apples Tommy sees Mr. Peabody take an apple without paying. Tommy tells about everyone in Happville. Tommy didn’t find enough information about why Mr. Peabody had done it. Tommy finds out that every morning when Mr. Peabody gets his milk he pays for his apple, but he picks it up later that day. So remember the power of your words matter because once you’ve said something it’s very hard to take it back.

After reading Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna I thought about trustworthiness. Trustworthiness is the trust you have for someone and the choices you make. You can make a bad choice and tell a lie. That can lead to someone losing trust in you. Or you can make a good choice and tell the truth. Honesty is very important and trust the power of your words.

Honesty is something that makes everyone feel good. Honesty is definitely a better choice then lying. In the book Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna Mr. Peabody was honest because he didn’t steal the apples, he paid for them when he got his milk. Tommy should have found out the truth before he spread the rumor about Mr. Peabody.

     Being trustworthy and spreading rumors are very different and I will show you. Trustworthy means that you can trust a friend, you can depend on your friend or you can trust he or she will come back. Rumors are bad because they are not good choices, like in Mr. Peabody’s Apples, Tommy told rumors about Mr. Peabody and couldn’t get them back. So, just be a friend!

    Rumors are like the game telephone someone tells someone something and that person tells someone and adds something a little bit more than the rumor already started to make it sound good. The people who tell rumors think that there cool and funny but are they really? NOPE.

Once in third grade a lot of people thought I went to the principal, but I really didn't.

  Last year a kid in my class called me an idiot. I didn’t feel mad because I knew he was still my friend.

Once in gymnastics a girl said that I was too short to do a pull-over on beam and that I was too young to be in the class. It made me fell that all people are different and that no one should tease other people. I had been in gymnastics longer than her and she shouldn’t be the one to tell me that. No one should!

No, but if they did I would be steaming mad at me and them. I think if they made a lie about me and a friend told me I would tell the teacher about it. I have a couple of bullies, but who doesn’t, sometimes this kid would tell me stuff I’m not, but he’d keep going at it. I’d ignore him and keep going with my life, but sometimes he got so annoying we would have some fights.

One time long, long ago in 2003 in a made up land called Cold Spring Harbor, there was a mean bully who liked to spread totally untrue rumors like the kid in Mr. Peabody’s Apples. His name was *****. One day he decided to spread a false rumor about me, ****. The rumor was that I couldn’t catch a football even if it was a perfect throw. Well, that rumor is so untrue because #1: I can catch any ball thrown in my general direction. # 2: I play Quarterback in the real, hard, tough tackle football league so my job isn’t to catch footballs even though I can. My job is to throw them. When the bully told all of the school his rumor, noone believed him because they know I can catch anything. The bully got in trouble. The End Student 4fr

I have no idea if someone talks behind my back. If I did, the whole “talking behind people’s backs” would be ruined. I’m sure someone has, but it’s ok. You should not care what someone thinks.

It made me feel sad because it was my best friend who said it.

Yes a sixth grade boy on my bus picked on me. When I got home from school, I told my mom and sister and they made me feel much better

Once in first grade we were doing this block thing and the teacher called on me because I was the quietest. Everybody was saying you`re so short and you`re one block tall. Even my best friends were laughing at me except for Katie Quinn. This made me feel bad because I pretty much lost all of my best friends.

Someone said I stole gum and it made me sad and mad.

 It made me feel mad, and it annoyed me.

It made me feel mad and sad because someone called
me something that I’m not.

I remember when someone said I had kissed a boy and it was not true. It made me feel very mad and also sad at the same time.

No, but if someone told on me for something that wasn’t true, I will try to tell them I didn’t do it.

If someone said to me that I was too short to do something and I wasn’t old enough and spread rumors about it, I would feel disappointed at that person and annoyed that they would say something like that.

Have you ever spread rumors without realizing how powerful your words would be and later wished you could have taken it back? Has anything ever been said about you that wasn't true and how did it make you feel? Does saying you are sorry always fix everything or is it sometimes not enough?

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