Speaker 1: Mis Hi, Billy, Hi, Callie, what's up, Elliott?
Speaker 2: What's everyone looking at? Hi?
Speaker 3: Lisa? Billy is shopping for new sneakers.
Speaker 2: Let me see.
Speaker 3: Ooh those are fire.
Speaker 2: How much do they cost? Billy is checking?
Speaker 1: WHOA, that's a really big number.
Speaker 4: Billy looks like you do not have enough money to
Speaker 4: buy these shoes. They are expensive.
Speaker 1: Oh no, this is terrible. What are we going to do?
Speaker 1: Billy needs to make some money fast. Billy, you need.
Speaker 2: To get a job.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we
Speaker 4: discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the
Speaker 4: fun of play. Learning has an idea to help Billy
Speaker 4: buy the shoes he wants. But can children really get jobs?
Speaker 4: Do you think that's a good idea. Let's find out
Speaker 4: more in today's episode about the rights of children. Billy,
Speaker 4: are you looking at job postings on your computer?
Speaker 1: Oh, Billy, look at this one electrician.
Speaker 2: You could use your tool belt.
Speaker 3: You love your tool belt.
Speaker 2: Oh, and look at this one.
Speaker 1: You could be a flight attendanty you already want to fly?
Speaker 4: Well, you may want to look at some of the
Speaker 4: details of these jobs.
Speaker 1: What do you mean jobs don't have tails?
Speaker 2: Not animal tails? Details?
Speaker 4: The details are all the little particular things about the job,
Speaker 4: like what time you have to go to work and
Speaker 4: how old you have to be.
Speaker 1: Okay, see hours are nine to five Monday two Friday.
Speaker 1: But when we go to school, must have a college degree.
Speaker 3: But Billy's not old enough to go to college.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: Billy is not old enough to go to college, and
Speaker 4: he's not old enough to get a job. Billy is
Speaker 4: a kid, and kids need time.
Speaker 2: To go to school. Billy says, it's not fair. I agree,
Speaker 2: it's not fair. Billy should be able to work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Billy should be able to get those sneakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's his right.
Speaker 4: Well, Lisa, children do have rights. That is very true
Speaker 4: and very important. In fact, World Children's Day celebrates these rights.
Speaker 4: But it's not the right to fancy sneakers, it's not.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 4: But one right children do have is the right not
Speaker 4: to work. Really, but why, lingo kids.
Speaker 2: Listeners, do you know?
Speaker 4: Why do you think there are laws to protect young
Speaker 4: children from working?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, if a kid wants to work, a kid
Speaker 2: should work. Maybe a little story will help explain.
Speaker 3: Oh, I lostly.
Speaker 4: About one hundred and fifty years ago, Maya moved with
Speaker 4: her family from Europe to New York City she was
Speaker 4: eight years old. Her family traveled a very long way
Speaker 4: on a very crowded boat for many weeks. When they
Speaker 4: got to New York, Maya, her mom, and her two
Speaker 4: little brothers moved into an apartment with Maya's uncle and
Speaker 4: his wife and three kids.
Speaker 3: Wait one, two, three, or five, six, seven, eight, nine
Speaker 3: us nine people.
Speaker 2: It must have been a very big apartment.
Speaker 4: Actually it was a very small apartment in a building
Speaker 4: with many other small apartments called a tenement house.
Speaker 3: That sounds crowded and squishy it was.
Speaker 4: Maya's family did not speak a lot of English. Yet
Speaker 4: it was hard for Maya's mom to find a job,
Speaker 4: so she did what many other families were doing at
Speaker 4: that time in order to survive what she set up
Speaker 4: a sewing shop in her apartment.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the family helped.
Speaker 1: There were nine people and a sewing shop in that little,
Speaker 1: tiny apartment.
Speaker 4: Yes, Maya's job was to walk to the factory six
Speaker 4: blocks away to collect big bags of fabric.
Speaker 2: And bring them home to her mom, all by herself.
Speaker 4: Yes, the bags were very happy to carry, and the
Speaker 4: streets were very crowded.
Speaker 2: So it took her a long time.
Speaker 3: Wait, when did she do her homework?
Speaker 4: Well, Elliott, it was hard for Maya to go to
Speaker 4: school at all. It was also hard to find time
Speaker 4: to learn English and make friends and play with other
Speaker 4: kids because.
Speaker 2: She was busy working.
Speaker 1: Poor Maya way exactly.
Speaker 4: It's great to do your chores and help your family,
Speaker 4: but it's different when you have to work every day.
Speaker 4: And that is why many people fought hard to get
Speaker 4: laws that protect young children from working.
Speaker 3: Phew, what happened to Maya?
Speaker 4: Well, after working very hard, Maya's family managed to move
Speaker 4: out of the tenement house.
Speaker 2: She got to go back to.
Speaker 4: School yay, and when she grew up, became a teacher.
Speaker 1: Oh, Maya, Now is a good story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I get it.
Speaker 2: Now, what do you get, Lisa?
Speaker 1: I get why kids have a right not to work.
Speaker 1: We need time to go to school and play and.
Speaker 2: Be kids. Billy wants to know what other rights children have.
Speaker 3: Me too.
Speaker 4: You might be interested to know that in nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 4: leaders from all over the world met to agree on
Speaker 4: the rights of children.
Speaker 3: I bet that's when they gave us the right to sneakers.
Speaker 4: Children don't have the right to a particular type of sneaker.
Speaker 4: Oh darn, But they do have the right to clothes,
Speaker 4: and that includes shoes. Kids also have the right to
Speaker 4: food and a safe place to live.
Speaker 2: Everyone needs food and a place to live. Exactly. Are
Speaker 2: there any more rights?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: The right to share your opinions and thoughts. I do
Speaker 2: that all the time. Yes, you do, Lisa. Also the
Speaker 2: right to education.
Speaker 3: Why goodness school?
Speaker 2: Yes? And the right to have time to play.
Speaker 3: I am so good at doubt one.
Speaker 4: Another important right that children have is the right to
Speaker 4: be taken care of by an adult.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Those are really good rights.
Speaker 3: I agree they do.
Speaker 4: Billy says he wants to use one of his rights.
Speaker 4: What is it, Billy, Great idea. Billy decided he wants
Speaker 4: to stop thinking about sneakers and use his right to
Speaker 4: go outside to play and have fun with his friends.
Speaker 2: Great idea, Billy.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Well, Lingo kids listeners.
Speaker 4: Today we learned about some of the important rights that
Speaker 4: all children have. This is a great time to think
Speaker 4: about these rights because November twentieth is World Children's Day.
Speaker 2: So tell all the kids
Speaker 4: You know Happy Children's Day, and be sure to always
Speaker 4: speak up for the rights of children everywhere.