This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
The week has just begun in Keystone, Iowa.
We're here to bear witness to a family meeting, an intervention, if you will.
It got kind of rough towards the end of the week, didn't it?
We didn't feel like such a family, did we?
Rachel Cruze is running this meeting.
The other participants are gathered around her in a circle.
A couple of them fidget, but most listen attentively.
So on Friday we decided that today we needed to have a family meeting.
Alright?
So this weekend I found this book and it's called it's mine.
So when I read this book, I want you to think about how last week went and how this week could go.
This family meeting is taking place in a kindergarten classroom in a rural part of eastern Iowa.
Rachel is the teacher, and the lesson she wants to share is one that could have a lasting impact on her students.
The story is sat on an island.
On the island live three quarrelsome frogs named Milton, Rupert and Lydia.
They quarreled and quibbled from dawn to dusk.
Lydia, they said, mine.
Stay out of the pond.