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Little Stories for Tiny People: Anytime and bedtime stories for kids

Little Hedgehog Gets The Sads

Little Stories for Tiny People: Anytime and bedtime stories for kids

Rhea Pechter

Arts, Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Books

4.66.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Little Hedgehog is BACK and she is not quite...herself. This story is a lighthearted exploration of how our brains and bodies are connected. When Little Hedgehog falls ill, her enthusiastic demeanor is replaced with a dark cloud. Will Little Hedgehog get her sparkle back? Listen and find out. ENJOY! If you LOVE this story, please share it with a friend. If you happen to have an Apple device, leave a review in Apple Podcasts! If your tiny person wants to share a story they've written, please send photos or recordings of it to rhea@littlestoriestinypeople.com. I LOVE to see their artwork, stories, and anything else they'd like to share. BIG THANKS to the listeners who provided sound effects used in the story: ALAINA, GRACE, and NATALIE. You can send me your very own sound effect! Just use the voice memo app on your phone, record your tiny people making a (recognizable) sound, and email it to rhea@littlestoriestinypeople.com! You might just hear your sound in a future story. Thank you to ZOE for helping providing the reminder at the beginning of this episode! You can find the LSFTP picture books, Little Hedgehog Goes to School and Little Fox Can't Wait to Dream, by visiting https://www.littlestoriestinypeople.com/books Little Stories Premium is available now! Get more of the stories you love and ad-free listening. Join at http://www.littlestoriespremium.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Ria.

0:09.6

Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People.

0:13.1

Friends, I don't know about you, but when I get sick, the kind of sick where you have to

0:20.3

be in bed, I get really sad.

0:24.7

When this happens, my brain starts to play this trick on me.

0:29.4

And somehow forgets all the happy times I've had in my entire life, and starts telling

0:34.7

me lies.

0:36.6

You are a sad person, my brain says.

0:39.8

You were sad before.

0:41.6

You are sad now.

0:43.5

You will always be this sad, by the way, in case you are wondering.

0:48.6

It is freaky.

0:50.8

My tiny people experience this too.

0:54.1

So I find it always helps when we talk about how our brains and our bodies are connected.

1:00.5

Our catch phrase is, when you are sick, you are sad.

1:05.2

We say that on repeat, and it really seems to help.

1:09.4

I wanted to find a way to illustrate this whole, when you are sick, you are sad thing

1:15.3

in a story that would help tiny people see how normal it is for this to happen.

1:22.2

And then it can happen to anyone.

1:26.1

Even if that someone is the pepiest, most exuberant, most comically enthusiastic individual you've

1:37.3

ever had the pleasure of knowing.

1:39.2

That's right, our story today features little head chug.

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