July 27, 2025 • 27 mins
Today Geraldine's happy pants are a happy blue - the kind of blue that reminds her of warm sunny mornings, and clean fresh air. Jo's happy pants are also blue, the kind of blue that reminds her of how it feels to paddle in a stream: cool, but not cold, and fresh on her skin.
This week's episode is all about smiling. What makes you smile? When grandma sits down on the chair where you put your painting to dry? Or perhaps when Dad treads in dog poo? You can't always be smiling - so the Happy Pants team explore other feelings you might have, too.
You'll also hear some happy tunes, fun facts, and a reading of Nadia L. King's book The Lost Smile. You can find out more about Nadia and her books on her website.
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S1 (00:13):
One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:31):
Welcome to Happy Pants, a show specially for kids and
especially for you. My name is Geraldine and my name
is Joe. And together we're your happy pants team for today.
Today my happy pants are a happy blue. This kind
of blue reminds me of warm, sunny mornings and clean,
(00:52):
fresh air. Mine are blue too. This kind of blue
reminds me of how it feels to paddle in a stream. Cool,
but not cold and fresh on my skin. Oh, Joe. Shush. Listen.
(01:20):
What color does that remind you of? Oh, um, I
reckon that is a blue sound. Those clean, fresh notes
sound like blue to me. Me too. Even if I'm
not feeling bright and happy. Magpie song always makes me
feel better. It puts a smile on my face whether
(01:42):
I want one or not. It's funny, isn't it, Geraldine?
Just putting on a smile makes you feel better about things.
(04:22):
If you're wearing your happy face, it helps everyone around
you to feel happy too. It works with happy pants
as well. Just wearing my happy pants makes me smile.
I can't wait to check the pockets to see what
surprises are hiding in there. Well, Happy Pants headquarters must
smile too. Someone must have a lot of fun finding
(04:45):
clues to tuck away in our pockets. Actually, I cheated
a bit earlier on. I went to sit down. There
was something hard in my pocket, so I pulled it
out and it put it over there on the table.
That's over there. Oh. Oh, it looks like a CD case. Oh,
we can check it out in a minute. Geraldine. My
(05:05):
pocket seems to have a book in it. Oh. oh.
This will be useful. It's called jokes to make you smile.
So long as they aren't side splitting jokes, that'd be
a bit painful. Um, I think we're supposed to play
that CD. I've just pulled a player out of my pocket,
(05:25):
and I'm sure it wasn't there before. Happy Pants is
(08:35):
telling us that even if you are feeling really sad,
putting on a happy face makes you feel a lot better.
And once you start to feel happy, things just get
better and better. And if you are smiling, it makes
other people smile as well. Putting on a smile is
(08:57):
all very well, but what if you would like to
smile but you can't? Hmm. Or are you mean like
your lips are all cracked and it hurts to smile.
Or you have a mouthful of something. Have you ever
tried to smile with a mouth full of water? Or
if you try that, make sure you're out on the
lawn or in the shower. Sometimes you would like to laugh,
(09:20):
but you know you shouldn't. Um, like when dad treads
in dog poo, or when grandma sits down on the
chair where you put your painting to dry. Or mum
trips over the noodle you left by the pool and
ends up in the drink? No. No, you really shouldn't laugh,
but you can't help it. Ah, there are times when
(09:43):
you're feeling really crook. You don't feel one bit like smiling.
Can you put on a really, really sad face? You
know the kind of face that says nobody likes me.
Everybody hates me. I think I'll go and eat worms. Big, fat,
(10:03):
juicy ones. want long, thin, slimy ones. Itsy bitsy, fuzzy
wuzzy worms. Yuck! Stop! Geraldine! That's revolting. Is it making
my whole face scrunch up? Not a happy face, then. No, no,
it's a disgusted face. Well, let's try some faces. Jo
(10:26):
is wearing a disgusted face. Can you look as if
you're eating worms, too? Oh, that's a really disgusted face.
Keep it on and feel around with your fingers. Is
your mouth pulled down tight at the sides? Is your
nose wrinkled up? Let's change faces. Can you make a sad, sad,
(10:51):
sad face. Feel gently with your fingers. Do your fingers
tell you that your mouth is all droopy? Is your
bottom lip poking out? How about the corners of your eyes?
Are they all droopy too? Try an angry face. Are
your lips all screwed up? Are your eyebrows up or down?
(11:15):
Now here's a strange thing. Put your disgusted face back on.
How do you feel inside? Hmm? Now make that sad face.
How do you feel inside now? Right. Now try your
angry face. How does that make you feel? Last one.
(11:39):
Put on a happy face. Really? Really happy. Feel with
your fingers and find out what's happened to your lips.
Your eyes and your mouth. Most important, keep that happy
face on and see how you feel inside. Did the
face you wore change the way you felt inside?
S3 (14:15):
I'm trying to listen to Happy Pants.
S2 (14:18):
Putting on a smiley face. Does make you feel like
smiling inside. Ah, but what if you were six and
your front teeth have fallen out? You're waiting for the
next lot to grow. But in the meantime, you don't
have anything to smile with. There is one good thing
about waiting for your new teeth to grow. You can't
(14:39):
bite stuff properly, so you get to eat soft food
like jelly and ice cream for a few days. Your
teeth will grow and your smile will come back. And
in the meantime, you might have some fun finding words
that make you lisp. What's a lisp, Geraldine? It's when
(15:04):
you don't have front teeth, so you can't say words
with s in them. You need front teeth, so the
air whistles past them to make the sound. If there
aren't any front teeth to make the sound, you end
up saying instead. So instead of saying Sister Susie sells seashells,
(15:27):
it would come out as Sister toothy teeth. It's fun
trying to say things with a lisp, but it's quite
hard to do unless you have that gap in your
front teeth. Every child in the whole world will lose
their teeth, but they do get a brand new set instead.
(15:47):
Nature has arranged things so as the baby teeth fall out,
another set of strong teeth grows and you keep those forever.
That's why they're called permanent teeth. They even come through
in stages. So you always have some teeth. Nature knows
that you need to have teeth to eat. So when
(16:09):
your front teeth fall out, the other teeth stay behind.
And when the front teeth have grown, it's time to
shed the next batch. Fill the edges of your front teeth.
They are sharp and made for cutting. And right next
to your cutting teeth are four long pointy teeth, two
(16:30):
on the top and two on the bottom. Can you
feel them? They're designed for piercing and tearing. We don't
do much piercing and tearing these days, but in caveman times,
piercing and tearing teeth were pretty useful. Anyway, they are
the next to go loose and fall out so new
(16:51):
ones can grow underneath. And by the time those pointy
ones have grown back, it's time for the grinding teeth
at the back to do their changeover. They have the
job of grinding the food, the front teeth cut up
and getting it ready for you to swallow. And before long,
you have a brand new set of teeth to last
(17:11):
you forever. But there are some more teeth just waiting
until your nearly grown up. Then they creep out and
snuggle down at the very back of the line up.
Can you feel where your teeth end? And there's a
space in the gum? That's where they will settle down. When?
When you're old enough. They're called wisdom teeth because you
(17:36):
don't get them until you're nearly grown up and you're
super wise. By then you will have a lovely smile.
And that lovely smile not only makes other people feel happy,
a smile on your face gives you a smile inside too. Joe.
Talking of things that make you smile, how about that
(17:58):
book that was in your pocket? Oh, yes. Jokes to
make you smile. Okay, Geraldine. Here's one. What does a
storm cloud where? Under its raincoat. I don't know, Joe.
Tell me. Thunder. Where? My turn. By the way, that
was a terrible joke. Oh, anyway, it's my turn. Here's one.
(18:23):
Why do some people like eating snails? Um, because properly
cooked snails are delicious. Is that the reason, Geraldine? Nah,
those people just hate fast food. Um. Oh, I have
to think about that one. Um. Eat snails. They hate
fast food snails. Oh. Snails are awfully slow. Ah. Got it. Yeah.
(18:49):
Got it. That was a terrible joke, Geraldine. Okay. My turn.
Why do birds fly north in the winter. I don't
know why. Because it's faster than walking. Oh. Oh, dear. Oh,
silly jokes do make you laugh. Here's one. Why was
(19:11):
six afraid of seven? Uh, I don't know. Why would
six be afraid of seven? Because. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ha ha.
S4 (19:22):
Ha ha!
S2 (19:24):
My grandpa made me laugh the other day. Oh, but
I had to pretend to do something urgent in the
kitchen so he wouldn't see me laughing. Well, what? What happened? Well,
Grandma and Grandpa were having a sit down on the patio,
and grandpa came in and started searching for something. He
looked in every room and couldn't find whatever it was,
so I asked if he needed some help. He said
(19:46):
no thanks. He knew he'd put his glasses down somewhere
and was looking for them. I was just about to
answer when he bent down to look under the couch,
and his glasses, which had been perched on the top
of his head, dropped down his forehead and settled neatly
on his nose. He'd been wearing them the whole time. Oh,
(20:09):
I couldn't let him see me laughing. He already felt
pretty silly. Losing your glasses and finding them on your
head is certainly funny, but, uh, I lost my little
brother once, and that was not funny. Oh. How on
earth did that happen? Well, when I was about six,
I took my little brother for a walk. He was
(20:32):
only four, and he loved going down to the park
at the end of our street to watch the ducks.
And I thought it would be nice to take him.
So I held his hand, unlatched the gate, and set off.
It wasn't far, and about half way along there was
a brick wall. I loved cats and there was a
big tabby cat perched on the wall, so I stopped
(20:56):
to pet it after a while. I looked around and
little Will wasn't there. Goodness, Geraldine, what did you do? Well,
I thought he might have gone down to the park,
so I ran flat out to see. He wasn't looking
at the ducks. He wasn't on the swings. He wasn't anywhere.
(21:17):
And by this time, I was really worried. I ran
home and there he was, playing with his truck on
the front lawn. He was only four, but he'd found
his own way home. Oh, all's well that ends well, fortunately.
But it might not have ended well. Mum and dad
(21:37):
were really, really angry with me. First, I'd unlatched the
gate and I wasn't supposed to. Second, I hadn't told
anyone where I was going. And lastly, I hadn't watched
my brother all the time, and I should have. doing
something without thinking it through properly, even if it was
(21:58):
meant to be something nice is not a good idea.
I certainly lost my smile for a while. Now we're
growing up. If Will wants to tease me, he just
asks me if I would like to go and see
the ducks. Our story today is about a girl who
(22:18):
lost her smile. It just wasn't there when she woke
up one morning. The Lost Smile by Nadia, Elle King
and Nelly Agekian. One day Zaytoun woke up feeling sad
and blue. When she looked in the mirror, her eyes
were glum and gloomy and her mouth was upside down.
(22:43):
Her smile was hiding somewhere. But where could it be? Ranya.
Have you seen my smile? Zeta-Jones baby sister cooed and
laughed and played with her toes. Army was in the
kitchen making breakfast. Army. Have you seen my smile? Not now. Zaitoon.
(23:08):
Her mother said, cracking eggs into a pan. She checked
under the table, but her smile wasn't there. Zaitoon smile
was lost. She searched and searched, but it wasn't anywhere
to be found. It wasn't in the dining room or
(23:28):
hiding in the lounge. When Zaitoon checked in the mirror,
her smile was still far away. Would she always feel
so sad? Her smile could be in the garden. Ah,
but the chickens hadn't seen it, and neither had Sherry,
the lamb. Zaitoon In tip toed through the vegetable patch.
(23:54):
The peas tasted yummy. She was almost as tall as
the corn. She stopped to smell the flowers. Would her
smile ever come home? Would Zaytoun ever smile again? She
(24:14):
searched among the lemons and climbed the guava tree. She
knew her smile must be hiding somewhere. But where could
it be? Arbour was picking avocados. Arbour is my smile
up there? Her father shook his head. Zaytoun walked away sadly.
(24:42):
Would she ever smile again? She didn't know where else
to look. Maybe daddy knew where her smile had gone. Daddy.
I think I've lost my smile. Oh, Zaitoon, her grandmother
said you can't lose your smile. Zaitoon closed her eyes.
(25:06):
Her fingers touched her mouth. Maybe her smile wasn't really lost.
She climbed into daddy's lap. Daddy was warm and soft.
She curled her arms around Zaitoon. Zaitoon wasn't so sad anymore.
(25:27):
She knew she would smile again. When daddy began to sing,
Zaitoon hummed along. Her reflection in the window, watched and waved.
Zaitoon opened her mouth wide and sang the words out loud.
She saw the blue of the sky through the window
(25:48):
and the sun smiling down. Her reflection was smiling too. Daddy, look.
Daddy looked down at Zeitoun and smiled, and Zeitoun smiled
right back. That was a reading of The Lost Smile,
(26:10):
written by Nadia King and Nelli Agekian. The reader was Joe. Hmm.
So what have we done today? We tried out a
lot of different faces and found out that even if
you feel sad or worried or angry, all you need
to do is put on a happy face. And like magic,
(26:34):
you soon start to feel better. Happy faces and smiles
make other people feel better too. And we had a
story about Zeitoun, who woke up one morning and couldn't
find her smile. If there was anything in today's program
about which you would like to know more. You can
find us on Radio Australia. Keep wearing those happy pants
(27:00):
and wearing those happy faces and we'll catch you next time.
S5 (27:18):
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(27:42):
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One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:31):
Welcome to Happy Pants, a show specially for kids and
especially for you. My name is Geraldine and my name
is Joe. And together we're your happy pants team for today.
Today my happy pants are a happy blue. This kind
of blue reminds me of warm, sunny mornings and clean,
(00:52):
fresh air. Mine are blue too. This kind of blue
reminds me of how it feels to paddle in a stream. Cool,
but not cold and fresh on my skin. Oh, Joe. Shush. Listen.
(01:20):
What color does that remind you of? Oh, um, I
reckon that is a blue sound. Those clean, fresh notes
sound like blue to me. Me too. Even if I'm
not feeling bright and happy. Magpie song always makes me
feel better. It puts a smile on my face whether
(01:42):
I want one or not. It's funny, isn't it, Geraldine?
Just putting on a smile makes you feel better about things.
(04:22):
If you're wearing your happy face, it helps everyone around
you to feel happy too. It works with happy pants
as well. Just wearing my happy pants makes me smile.
I can't wait to check the pockets to see what
surprises are hiding in there. Well, Happy Pants headquarters must
smile too. Someone must have a lot of fun finding
(04:45):
clues to tuck away in our pockets. Actually, I cheated
a bit earlier on. I went to sit down. There
was something hard in my pocket, so I pulled it
out and it put it over there on the table.
That's over there. Oh. Oh, it looks like a CD case. Oh,
we can check it out in a minute. Geraldine. My
(05:05):
pocket seems to have a book in it. Oh. oh.
This will be useful. It's called jokes to make you smile.
So long as they aren't side splitting jokes, that'd be
a bit painful. Um, I think we're supposed to play
that CD. I've just pulled a player out of my pocket,
(05:25):
and I'm sure it wasn't there before. Happy Pants is
(08:35):
telling us that even if you are feeling really sad,
putting on a happy face makes you feel a lot better.
And once you start to feel happy, things just get
better and better. And if you are smiling, it makes
other people smile as well. Putting on a smile is
(08:57):
all very well, but what if you would like to
smile but you can't? Hmm. Or are you mean like
your lips are all cracked and it hurts to smile.
Or you have a mouthful of something. Have you ever
tried to smile with a mouth full of water? Or
if you try that, make sure you're out on the
lawn or in the shower. Sometimes you would like to laugh,
(09:20):
but you know you shouldn't. Um, like when dad treads
in dog poo, or when grandma sits down on the
chair where you put your painting to dry. Or mum
trips over the noodle you left by the pool and
ends up in the drink? No. No, you really shouldn't laugh,
but you can't help it. Ah, there are times when
(09:43):
you're feeling really crook. You don't feel one bit like smiling.
Can you put on a really, really sad face? You
know the kind of face that says nobody likes me.
Everybody hates me. I think I'll go and eat worms. Big, fat,
(10:03):
juicy ones. want long, thin, slimy ones. Itsy bitsy, fuzzy
wuzzy worms. Yuck! Stop! Geraldine! That's revolting. Is it making
my whole face scrunch up? Not a happy face, then. No, no,
it's a disgusted face. Well, let's try some faces. Jo
(10:26):
is wearing a disgusted face. Can you look as if
you're eating worms, too? Oh, that's a really disgusted face.
Keep it on and feel around with your fingers. Is
your mouth pulled down tight at the sides? Is your
nose wrinkled up? Let's change faces. Can you make a sad, sad,
(10:51):
sad face. Feel gently with your fingers. Do your fingers
tell you that your mouth is all droopy? Is your
bottom lip poking out? How about the corners of your eyes?
Are they all droopy too? Try an angry face. Are
your lips all screwed up? Are your eyebrows up or down?
(11:15):
Now here's a strange thing. Put your disgusted face back on.
How do you feel inside? Hmm? Now make that sad face.
How do you feel inside now? Right. Now try your
angry face. How does that make you feel? Last one.
(11:39):
Put on a happy face. Really? Really happy. Feel with
your fingers and find out what's happened to your lips.
Your eyes and your mouth. Most important, keep that happy
face on and see how you feel inside. Did the
face you wore change the way you felt inside?
S3 (14:15):
I'm trying to listen to Happy Pants.
S2 (14:18):
Putting on a smiley face. Does make you feel like
smiling inside. Ah, but what if you were six and
your front teeth have fallen out? You're waiting for the
next lot to grow. But in the meantime, you don't
have anything to smile with. There is one good thing
about waiting for your new teeth to grow. You can't
(14:39):
bite stuff properly, so you get to eat soft food
like jelly and ice cream for a few days. Your
teeth will grow and your smile will come back. And
in the meantime, you might have some fun finding words
that make you lisp. What's a lisp, Geraldine? It's when
(15:04):
you don't have front teeth, so you can't say words
with s in them. You need front teeth, so the
air whistles past them to make the sound. If there
aren't any front teeth to make the sound, you end
up saying instead. So instead of saying Sister Susie sells seashells,
(15:27):
it would come out as Sister toothy teeth. It's fun
trying to say things with a lisp, but it's quite
hard to do unless you have that gap in your
front teeth. Every child in the whole world will lose
their teeth, but they do get a brand new set instead.
(15:47):
Nature has arranged things so as the baby teeth fall out,
another set of strong teeth grows and you keep those forever.
That's why they're called permanent teeth. They even come through
in stages. So you always have some teeth. Nature knows
that you need to have teeth to eat. So when
(16:09):
your front teeth fall out, the other teeth stay behind.
And when the front teeth have grown, it's time to
shed the next batch. Fill the edges of your front teeth.
They are sharp and made for cutting. And right next
to your cutting teeth are four long pointy teeth, two
(16:30):
on the top and two on the bottom. Can you
feel them? They're designed for piercing and tearing. We don't
do much piercing and tearing these days, but in caveman times,
piercing and tearing teeth were pretty useful. Anyway, they are
the next to go loose and fall out so new
(16:51):
ones can grow underneath. And by the time those pointy
ones have grown back, it's time for the grinding teeth
at the back to do their changeover. They have the
job of grinding the food, the front teeth cut up
and getting it ready for you to swallow. And before long,
you have a brand new set of teeth to last
(17:11):
you forever. But there are some more teeth just waiting
until your nearly grown up. Then they creep out and
snuggle down at the very back of the line up.
Can you feel where your teeth end? And there's a
space in the gum? That's where they will settle down. When?
When you're old enough. They're called wisdom teeth because you
(17:36):
don't get them until you're nearly grown up and you're
super wise. By then you will have a lovely smile.
And that lovely smile not only makes other people feel happy,
a smile on your face gives you a smile inside too. Joe.
Talking of things that make you smile, how about that
(17:58):
book that was in your pocket? Oh, yes. Jokes to
make you smile. Okay, Geraldine. Here's one. What does a
storm cloud where? Under its raincoat. I don't know, Joe.
Tell me. Thunder. Where? My turn. By the way, that
was a terrible joke. Oh, anyway, it's my turn. Here's one.
(18:23):
Why do some people like eating snails? Um, because properly
cooked snails are delicious. Is that the reason, Geraldine? Nah,
those people just hate fast food. Um. Oh, I have
to think about that one. Um. Eat snails. They hate
fast food snails. Oh. Snails are awfully slow. Ah. Got it. Yeah.
(18:49):
Got it. That was a terrible joke, Geraldine. Okay. My turn.
Why do birds fly north in the winter. I don't
know why. Because it's faster than walking. Oh. Oh, dear. Oh,
silly jokes do make you laugh. Here's one. Why was
(19:11):
six afraid of seven? Uh, I don't know. Why would
six be afraid of seven? Because. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ha ha.
S4 (19:22):
Ha ha!
S2 (19:24):
My grandpa made me laugh the other day. Oh, but
I had to pretend to do something urgent in the
kitchen so he wouldn't see me laughing. Well, what? What happened? Well,
Grandma and Grandpa were having a sit down on the patio,
and grandpa came in and started searching for something. He
looked in every room and couldn't find whatever it was,
so I asked if he needed some help. He said
(19:46):
no thanks. He knew he'd put his glasses down somewhere
and was looking for them. I was just about to
answer when he bent down to look under the couch,
and his glasses, which had been perched on the top
of his head, dropped down his forehead and settled neatly
on his nose. He'd been wearing them the whole time. Oh,
(20:09):
I couldn't let him see me laughing. He already felt
pretty silly. Losing your glasses and finding them on your
head is certainly funny, but, uh, I lost my little
brother once, and that was not funny. Oh. How on
earth did that happen? Well, when I was about six,
I took my little brother for a walk. He was
(20:32):
only four, and he loved going down to the park
at the end of our street to watch the ducks.
And I thought it would be nice to take him.
So I held his hand, unlatched the gate, and set off.
It wasn't far, and about half way along there was
a brick wall. I loved cats and there was a
big tabby cat perched on the wall, so I stopped
(20:56):
to pet it after a while. I looked around and
little Will wasn't there. Goodness, Geraldine, what did you do? Well,
I thought he might have gone down to the park,
so I ran flat out to see. He wasn't looking
at the ducks. He wasn't on the swings. He wasn't anywhere.
(21:17):
And by this time, I was really worried. I ran
home and there he was, playing with his truck on
the front lawn. He was only four, but he'd found
his own way home. Oh, all's well that ends well, fortunately.
But it might not have ended well. Mum and dad
(21:37):
were really, really angry with me. First, I'd unlatched the
gate and I wasn't supposed to. Second, I hadn't told
anyone where I was going. And lastly, I hadn't watched
my brother all the time, and I should have. doing
something without thinking it through properly, even if it was
(21:58):
meant to be something nice is not a good idea.
I certainly lost my smile for a while. Now we're
growing up. If Will wants to tease me, he just
asks me if I would like to go and see
the ducks. Our story today is about a girl who
(22:18):
lost her smile. It just wasn't there when she woke
up one morning. The Lost Smile by Nadia, Elle King
and Nelly Agekian. One day Zaytoun woke up feeling sad
and blue. When she looked in the mirror, her eyes
were glum and gloomy and her mouth was upside down.
(22:43):
Her smile was hiding somewhere. But where could it be? Ranya.
Have you seen my smile? Zeta-Jones baby sister cooed and
laughed and played with her toes. Army was in the
kitchen making breakfast. Army. Have you seen my smile? Not now. Zaitoon.
(23:08):
Her mother said, cracking eggs into a pan. She checked
under the table, but her smile wasn't there. Zaitoon smile
was lost. She searched and searched, but it wasn't anywhere
to be found. It wasn't in the dining room or
(23:28):
hiding in the lounge. When Zaitoon checked in the mirror,
her smile was still far away. Would she always feel
so sad? Her smile could be in the garden. Ah,
but the chickens hadn't seen it, and neither had Sherry,
the lamb. Zaitoon In tip toed through the vegetable patch.
(23:54):
The peas tasted yummy. She was almost as tall as
the corn. She stopped to smell the flowers. Would her
smile ever come home? Would Zaytoun ever smile again? She
(24:14):
searched among the lemons and climbed the guava tree. She
knew her smile must be hiding somewhere. But where could
it be? Arbour was picking avocados. Arbour is my smile
up there? Her father shook his head. Zaytoun walked away sadly.
(24:42):
Would she ever smile again? She didn't know where else
to look. Maybe daddy knew where her smile had gone. Daddy.
I think I've lost my smile. Oh, Zaitoon, her grandmother
said you can't lose your smile. Zaitoon closed her eyes.
(25:06):
Her fingers touched her mouth. Maybe her smile wasn't really lost.
She climbed into daddy's lap. Daddy was warm and soft.
She curled her arms around Zaitoon. Zaitoon wasn't so sad anymore.
(25:27):
She knew she would smile again. When daddy began to sing,
Zaitoon hummed along. Her reflection in the window, watched and waved.
Zaitoon opened her mouth wide and sang the words out loud.
She saw the blue of the sky through the window
(25:48):
and the sun smiling down. Her reflection was smiling too. Daddy, look.
Daddy looked down at Zeitoun and smiled, and Zeitoun smiled
right back. That was a reading of The Lost Smile,
(26:10):
written by Nadia King and Nelli Agekian. The reader was Joe. Hmm.
So what have we done today? We tried out a
lot of different faces and found out that even if
you feel sad or worried or angry, all you need
to do is put on a happy face. And like magic,
(26:34):
you soon start to feel better. Happy faces and smiles
make other people feel better too. And we had a
story about Zeitoun, who woke up one morning and couldn't
find her smile. If there was anything in today's program
about which you would like to know more. You can
find us on Radio Australia. Keep wearing those happy pants
(27:00):
and wearing those happy faces and we'll catch you next time.
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Vision Australia Radio acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
as the first Australians, and the traditional owners of the
land across our working area. We pay our respects to
elders past, present and future in maintaining their cultures, countries
and their spiritual connection to the lands and waters. Vision
Australia Radio acknowledges and respects the genuine diversity and richness
(27:42):
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia. Happy
pants has been made possible with the support of the
Community Broadcasting Foundation.
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