To have a good time in the heat, we set out to learn a thing or two from a few New York City kids.

They offered practical advice: Stay hydrated. Take advantage of sprinklers. Go to the air-conditioned library and read. Take a trip to a water park, if your parents say it's O.K. 

"The best thing about summer," said five-year-old Léa Dove, speaking from Underwood Park in Brooklyn, "is that trees grow, and that the leaves stay up, and that flowers make the summer more pretty and also the grass. And the bubbles." (She couldn't take her eyes off of someone blowing bubbles nearby.)

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