The story I learned my lesson from the book The Poisonous Yuck Bugs.  In this story, there were two bugs called ‘Yuck Bugs’, one blue with red spots and the other red with blue spots.  These yuck bugs would call other animals mean things, like to the giraffe: “You stink!” or to the turtle: “Looking bad, today, slowpoke!”  These hurtful words would make the other animals sick, their faces turned green at the sound.  Every animal in the forest stayed away from the yuck bugs, nobody wanted to be with animals who shout poisonous words at you all of the time.  But one day when the yuck bugs were eating their lunch of a leaf, the blue one ripped it, and the red one got MAD.  He started shouting yuck-words at the blue one, and the poison worked it’s trick- the blue one felt sick.  The animals in the jungle had a book of rules, and one of the rules was this:  No Yuck Bugs Shall Use Yuck Words On Other Yuck Bugs.  The red one had just broken this rule and he felt sorry, but the blue one was not forgiving- he was both sick, and MAD.  He started using yuck-words on the red one, and this kept on going on until they were both nearly dead with the yuck-word poison!  But then- just their luck- this butterfly came along (she was a healing butterfly) she rested on their tree-of-a-home and she looked down.  She say the yuck bugs and started saying nice things about them-  that is basically the ‘antidote’ to the yuck words- and the poison started healing, the yuck bugs got up, and they apologized to each other, they thanked the butterfly, she flew away, and from then until now they never say mean yuck words- they say nice words.  To the giraffe: “Spots are the new ‘cool’!” or to the turtle: “Looking good!”   They all lived happily ever after.  I learned from this that you should NEVER say mean things and that you should always be nice and kind and loving.  Because mean words are like yuck words- they have a poison of their own.