‘I’m not trying to be mean, I just want everyone to be friends’: 6-year-old Surrey girl gives mom life lesson

Out of the mouths of babes comes incredible wisdom.

A single mother from Surrey, B.C. recorded a video of her six-year-old daughter Tiana offering some sage advice on loving one another. The mother and the girl’s father had apparently gotten into an argument.

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After asking her mom whether she was ready to be friends with her ex-husband, Tiana says she just doesn’t want her parents to be “meanies.”

“I’m not trying to mean, I just want everyone to be friends. And if I can be nice, I think all of us can be nice too,” she says in the video.

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The first-grader goes on to share her hopes and dreams for the world: that everyone would smile and be friends.

First posted online last Wednesday, the video has already been viewed 9.6 million times on Facebook.