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What adults get wrong about being a kid

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Kids’ feelings are valid

“Kids don’t need fixing—they need listening.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something grown-ups think they understand about being a kid, but really don't?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Draw a kid-sized world vs adult-sized world.

★ For your table

When do you feel unheard?

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What kids get wrong about adults

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Adults are still learning

“Growing up doesn’t mean having it all figured out.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something you used to believe about adults that turned out not to be true?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Adult with a question mark.

★ For your table

What surprised you?

3

Fears about growing up

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Fear is normal

“Being scared doesn’t mean you’re weak.”

DAD

Dad asks

When you think about getting older, what's the part that scares you most?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Monster shrinking as you talk.

★ For your table

What scares you right now?

4

Dad & unemployment

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Worth ≠ job

“A job doesn’t define a person.”

DAD

Dad asks

When I lost my job, did anything feel different about me to you? You can be honest.

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Dad without a label.

★ For your table

How do we define value?

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Changing one rule

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Ideas matter

“Kids have world-changing ideas.”

DAD

Dad asks

If you could change one rule in the whole world, which would you change, and why?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Rewrite a rule book.

★ For your table

What rule would you change?

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What success means

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Success is personal

“Success isn’t the same for everyone.”

DAD

Dad asks

What does it look like to you when someone has a really good life?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Trophy with different labels.

★ For your table

How do we measure success?

7

Job search update

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Progress is invisible

“Not all growth shows up right away.”

DAD

Dad asks

Some of the work I'm doing right now you can't even see yet. Does that happen to you too?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Seeds under soil.

★ For your table

What does progress look like?

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Good day vs bad day

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Small moments matter

“A bad moment doesn’t ruin a day.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's one small thing that can turn an ordinary day into a good one for you?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Scale tipping with moments.

★ For your table

What made today good?

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Feeling left out

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Belonging starts inside

“You belong even when you feel left out.”

DAD

Dad asks

When was a time you felt left out, and what did you wish someone had done?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

One heart standing alone.

★ For your table

When did you feel excluded?

10

Being brave

Season 1 · Real Life, Real Feelings · Core lesson: Courage can be quiet

“Bravery doesn’t always roar.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's a brave thing you did that nobody clapped for?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Small cape.

★ For your table

How do you show courage?

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Handling anger

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Anger is information

“Anger is a signal, not a flaw.”

DAD

Dad asks

When you get really angry, what do you think your body is trying to tell you?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Volcano with label.

★ For your table

What triggers anger?

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Crying

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Tears are okay

“Crying is part of being human.”

DAD

Dad asks

When do you think it's okay to cry? Does it ever feel hard to let yourself?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Raindrops turning to hearts.

★ For your table

When is it okay to cry?

13

Calming down

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Everyone needs calm

“Calm looks different for everyone.”

DAD

Dad asks

When you're upset, what actually helps you feel calm again?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Calm toolbox.

★ For your table

What helps you calm?

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Big feelings

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Naming helps

“Feelings shrink when named.”

DAD

Dad asks

Which feeling is the hardest one for you to handle?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Word bubbles.

★ For your table

What feeling is hardest?

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Adults mess up

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Apologies matter

“Saying sorry is powerful.”

DAD

Dad asks

When a grown-up messes up, what do you wish they would do about it?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Broken heart taped.

★ For your table

How do we repair mistakes?

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Embarrassment

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Awkward is universal

“Everyone feels awkward.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something that embarrasses you, even when you know it probably shouldn't?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Blushing smile.

★ For your table

What embarrasses you?

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Feeling proud

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Pride comes from effort

“Effort is worth celebrating.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something you worked hard at that you're proud of, even if it's small?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Star with scribbles.

★ For your table

What are you proud of?

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Disappointment

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Not failure

“Disappointment isn’t the end.”

DAD

Dad asks

When something doesn't go the way you hoped, how do you pick yourself back up?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Path with detour.

★ For your table

How do you bounce back?

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Anxiety

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Worry is normal

“Worry doesn’t mean danger.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's a worry that keeps coming back for you?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Thought cloud.

★ For your table

What worries repeat?

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Asking for help

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Help is strength

“Strong people ask for help.”

DAD

Dad asks

When is it hardest for you to ask for help?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Hands reaching.

★ For your table

When is help hard?

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Identity

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Be yourself

“You don’t need to copy anyone.”

DAD

Dad asks

What makes you you, even when nobody's watching?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Self-portrait.

★ For your table

What makes you you?

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Strengths

Season 2 · Emotions & Resilience · Core lesson: Strengths grow

“Noticing strengths makes them grow.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something you're genuinely good at?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Muscle heart.

★ For your table

What are your strengths?

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Weaknesses

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Struggle = learning

“Struggling means learning.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something that's hard for you right now that you're still working on?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Ladder with slips.

★ For your table

What’s hard right now?

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Trying new things

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Start messy

“You don’t have to be good to start.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something you want to try, even though you might be bad at it at first?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Scribble start.

★ For your table

What do you want to try?

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Being different

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Different is power

“Different is powerful.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something about you that's different from everyone else, and kind of great?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Mismatched puzzle.

★ For your table

How are you unique?

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Comparison

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Comparison steals joy

“Comparison robs happiness.”

DAD

Dad asks

When do you catch yourself comparing yourself to other people?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Split mirror.

★ For your table

When do you compare?

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Dreams

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Dreams change

“Dreams are allowed to change.”

DAD

Dad asks

Has one of your dreams ever changed? What did it used to be?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Thought bubbles evolving.

★ For your table

What dreams changed?

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Failure

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Failure teaches

“Failure teaches faster than success.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something that didn't work out, but ended up teaching you something?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Eraser marks.

★ For your table

What did failure teach?

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Boundaries

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Boundaries matter

“Saying no is self-respect.”

DAD

Dad asks

When have you needed to draw a line and say, 'that's not okay with me'?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Fence heart.

★ For your table

When do you need a boundary?

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Saying no

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Protect energy

“You’re allowed to say no.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something that's really hard for you to say no to?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Stop sign heart.

★ For your table

What’s hard to say no to?

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Enough

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Enough is enough

“More isn’t always better.”

DAD

Dad asks

How do you know when you have enough of something?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Full jar.

★ For your table

What is enough?

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Money

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Tool not worth

“Money is a tool, not value.”

DAD

Dad asks

What do you think money is actually for?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Toolbox dollar.

★ For your table

How do we use money?

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Work

Season 3 · Growth & Boundaries · Core lesson: Work supports life

“Work supports life—it isn’t life.”

DAD

Dad asks

Why do you think people work? What's it really for?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Balance scale.

★ For your table

Why do people work?

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Responsibility

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Grows with trust

“Responsibility grows with trust.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's a responsibility you feel ready for now that you weren't before?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Plant growing.

★ For your table

What responsibility fits now?

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Helping at home

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Contribution matters

“Helping builds confidence.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's a way we work better as a team when we help each other out?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Team house.

★ For your table

How do we help together?

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Parental stress

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Love stays

“Stress doesn’t cancel love.”

DAD

Dad asks

When I'm stressed, how can you tell? Does it ever feel like it's about you?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Cloud over heart.

★ For your table

How does stress show up?

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Hard choices

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: No perfect option

“Hard choices mean growth.”

DAD

Dad asks

When you've got two options and neither is perfect, how do you decide?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Forked road.

★ For your table

How do you decide?

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Patience

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Waiting is learned

“Waiting is a skill.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's the hardest thing for you to wait for?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Clock sprout.

★ For your table

What’s hard to wait for?

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Safety

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Emotional + physical

“Safety includes feelings.”

DAD

Dad asks

What makes you feel safe, not just your body, but your feelings too?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Shield heart.

★ For your table

What makes you feel safe?

40

Home

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Love defines home

“Home is how love feels.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something that makes our home feel like home to you?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

House with hearts.

★ For your table

What makes home safe?

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Contentment

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Inside job

“Enough starts inside.”

DAD

Dad asks

When do you feel like you have everything you need, right in that moment?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Heart meter.

★ For your table

When do you feel content?

42

Fairness

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Fair ≠ equal

“Fair doesn’t mean equal.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something that feels unfair to you? Is fair always the same as equal?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Scales uneven.

★ For your table

What feels unfair?

43

Advice to younger self

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Growth perspective

“You grow by living.”

DAD

Dad asks

If you could tell the younger you one thing, what would it be?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Timeline doodle.

★ For your table

What would you tell younger you?

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Hope

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Direction

“Hope points forward.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something you're really hoping for right now?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Arrow star.

★ For your table

What do you hope for?

45

Trust

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Listening builds trust

“Trust grows when we listen.”

DAD

Dad asks

When do you feel safe enough to tell me what's really going on?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Open ears.

★ For your table

When do you feel safe talking?

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Feeling stuck

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Stuck is temporary

“Stuck is not forever.”

DAD

Dad asks

When was a time you felt stuck, like you couldn't move forward?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Mud boots.

★ For your table

When do you feel stuck?

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What kids teach adults

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Kids teach daily

“Kids teach adults every day.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something you think you've taught me?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Lightbulb kid.

★ For your table

What have you taught me?

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What dad learned

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Learning never stops

“Adults are still learning.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something we figured out together that I didn't know before?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Open book.

★ For your table

What did we learn together?

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Change

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Growth over time

“Change means growth.”

DAD

Dad asks

How do you think we've both changed over this past year?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Before/after doodle.

★ For your table

How have we changed?

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Hard things

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Strength grows

“Hard things make us stronger.”

DAD

Dad asks

What's something that's still hard for you, even now?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Weights heart.

★ For your table

What’s still hard?

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Pride

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Reflection matters

“Looking back builds confidence.”

DAD

Dad asks

When you look back at this year, what are you most proud of?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Highlight reel.

★ For your table

What are you proud of?

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Message to kids

Season 4 · Values & Wisdom · Core lesson: Stories help others

“Your story can help someone.”

DAD

Dad asks

If another kid was going through what you went through, what would you tell them?

BELLA

Bella’s turn

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Her answer & doodle go here.

✎ Bella’s doodle prompt

Speech bubble crowd.

★ For your table

What would you tell other kids?