Educational film in which a young boy talks to his mother inside their home. She wants him to run errand to the hardware store by himself for the first time. She wants him to be careful crossing the street and asks him to show her his right hand. The boy raises his left hand by mistake. Mother walks into the kitchen and ties a piece of string around the boy’s right thumb. Exterior shot of the boy leaving the apartment. He walks over to a cardboard box that a young African American boy is hiding in. The two children talk about walking to the store by himself and how he’ll know right from left.