Object: a badge that reads "Jesus loves me."

Boys and girls, have you ever had a time when somebody you wanted to have as your friend got really angry at you? (Talk about this.) How does it feel when that happens? (Let them answer.) It can really be hard on us when somebody we want to like us is angry at us instead. What could we do to fix things?

That's right. We could talk to them and ask them to stop being angry. But they might not do it, especially if they thought they had a good reason. We could beg them. But that might just make them more angry. We could give them a present. But that might not work. We could say to them (or to ourselves), "Well, go …