Step 1: Think!
Today we are going to focus on tattling or telling on someone. First watch this story called Don’t Squeal Unless it’s a Big Deal by Jeanie Franz here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLf_bHRRsI

Step 2:
Tattling, or telling on someone, is meant to get someone in trouble, while asking for help is meant to alert an adult when help is needed.
Can you give examples of when someone is tattling and when someone is seeking help?
Is telling always wrong?

Let’s work on these examples.
1. You are in class and the person sitting next to you is eating their lunch without the teacher noticing? Should you tell on them?
2. This same person is eating their lunch when suddenly they start choking. Should you tell the teacher? Would you tell the teacher if this was your special friend and the teacher always punishes those who do not eat during break?
Note to supervising adult: The point to discuss here is whether telling is, in fact, always wrong, whether there are not cases, situations, when we should, when we are obliged (when it is our duty), to tell, even on our special friends. The difficult moral point to be made is that it is sometimes one’s duty to tell even if it makes one unpopular or ends a friendship. Emphasise on the priority of duty to keep others away from harm.

Concluding activity
Write a sentence which shows someone is tattling.
Write a sentence which shows that someone is telling on someone else to keep them away from harm.