Why?
There was a little girl who rode the bus to kindergarten every day. Being a school bus, there were older kids, 3 boys in particular, who liked to pick on other kids. They regularly surrounded one other little girl's seat and hit her on the head (when the bus driver wasn't looking of course) until she cried. Finally, one afternoon on the ride home, the first little girl sat in the seat that the picked on girl usually sat in. As those giant 4th graders surrounded her, she had the courage to speak up. She told them that she'd noticed how mean they were and that they could hit her as much as they liked, but she wasn't going to cry. They did hit her. Her lip quivered a little, but she held her little head up and didn't cry. She smiled at the other girl as she got off the bus at her stop. At least for that year, those boys left both girls alone.

How does a 6 year old come up with the courage to do that? Why did she even think to swap places with the other girl?

Sometimes I get down about the state of the youth in our society. But, there is always hope!