--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Tries to Talk to Kids About Love description: In a 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' video, the talk show host discusses love and kissing (it's gross!) with two five-year-olds. canonical: https://time.com/5590349/these-two-five-year-olds-just-schooled-jimmy-kimmel-on-the-subject-of-love/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-16T15:56:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:58.412Z og:title: These Two Five-Year-Olds Just Schooled Jimmy Kimmel on the Subject of Love og:description: Love is "putting someone’s needs before yours," kindergartner Arlene explained og:url: https://time.com/5590349/these-two-five-year-olds-just-schooled-jimmy-kimmel-on-the-subject-of-love/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36d95355602abb65/69894a007cdbac238bd5f89a/jimmy-kimmel-talks-kids-love.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jimmy Kimmel Talks to Kids About Love og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Two Five-Year-Olds Just Schooled Jimmy Kimmel on the Subject of Love twitter:description: Love is "putting someone’s needs before yours," kindergartner Arlene explained twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36d95355602abb65/69894a007cdbac238bd5f89a/jimmy-kimmel-talks-kids-love.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Two Five-Year-Olds Just Schooled Jimmy Kimmel on the Subject of Love by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 16, 2019 3:56 PM UTC  YouTube YouTube by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 16, 2019 3:56 PM UTC On Wednesday night’s episode of [_Jimmy Kimmel Live!_](http://time.com/5586590/jimmy-kimmel-celebrity-texts-mom/) the late night host embarked on “a mission to educate” the youth of today on the meaning of a certain four-letter word: love. To do this, he sat down with kindergartners Dean and Arlene to talk about matters of the heart. Having set the scene with a candlelit table and enough roses to put _The Bachelorette_ to shame, Kimmel and the kids discussed their relationship (they don’t have one) and why kissing on TV is gross (it’s the germs). And when he asked the five-year-olds to define love specifically, Arlene gave him a beautiful response. “It’s putting someone’s needs before yours,” she explained, so poignantly that Kimmel seemed to be rendered speechless. “I thought Oprah was off the air,” he joked. “I don’t know how this is happening.” While Kimmel seemed oddly intent on making the pair fall in love — at one point he produced a very non-scientific gadget called the “Love Meter” to confirm that love was in the air — he only got so far as to get them to admit that the other is “kind of cute.” The burgeoning relationship is likely to have a short shelf life, though, because Arlene a realist. “I’m never going to marry anybody,” she said. “Because it’s kind of disgusting.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5590349/these-two-five-year-olds-just-schooled-jimmy-kimmel-on-the-subject-of-love/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5590349/these-two-five-year-olds-just-schooled-jimmy-kimmel-on-the-subject-of-love/"},"headline":"These Two Five-Year-Olds Just Schooled Jimmy Kimmel on the Subject of Love","datePublished":"2019-05-16T15:56:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:58.412Z","description":"Love is \"putting someone’s needs before yours,\" kindergartner Arlene explained","url":"https://time.com/5590349/these-two-five-year-olds-just-schooled-jimmy-kimmel-on-the-subject-of-love/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36d95355602abb65/69894a007cdbac238bd5f89a/jimmy-kimmel-talks-kids-love.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36d95355602abb65/69894a007cdbac238bd5f89a/jimmy-kimmel-talks-kids-love.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Talks to Kids About Love","caption":"Jimmy Kimmel Talks to Kids About Love","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5590349/these-two-five-year-olds-just-schooled-jimmy-kimmel-on-the-subject-of-love/","name":"These Two Five-Year-Olds Just Schooled Jimmy Kimmel on the Subject of Love"}}]}] ```