Chris Hipkins

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455 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Unfiltered with Dave Letele · #47 Chris Hipkins · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

Because if the kids are in trouble, there's generally, you know, it's generally a sign that there's more going on behind the scenes.

I tell you, when I was first a member of parliament, a woman from the United States came in to see me and she founded this program called Roots of Empathy.

And Roots of Empathy was about taking babies into primary schools and teaching kids around empathy, using the babies as the catalyst for that.

And she told me the story about when they first ran this program, it was in the US, and a teacher took her baby into a school.

And the baby got handed around the kids and they were learning about babies and how vulnerable they were and how you looked after a baby and all that.

And she said there was one kid.

I tell you, when she told me the story, I was in tears.

She said there was one kid who was just hanging back and he didn't want to get involved.

And then it finished and the woman was about to leave.

And this one kid had stayed behind.

He hadn't participated when the baby was being handed around the class.

And he went up to her.

And he said to her, and he said, can I hold your baby?

Because he didn't want to do it in front of all of his mates.

And he held this baby and he learned about the baby and he was giving it cuddles and everything.

And then he handed the baby back to her and he said, do you think it's possible for someone who's never been loved to love a child?

Wow.

And I've heard her tell this story subsequently as well, and she had everybody in tears with that story because the next picture that she puts up on her slideshow is a photo of this guy as an adult with his wife and his kids, and he's an amazing dad.

Wow.

And you can change.

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