--- 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=1189&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1189 og:image:height: 669 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=1189&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Two Five-Year-Olds Just Schooled Jimmy Kimmel on the Subject of Love > Sponsored content. 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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"}}]}] ```