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🌊 Big feelings that are hard to handle

1 episode Β· 2 books

Episodes to watch 1
Bluey

Flat Pack

Ages 4–8 Disney+ 7 min

A visually stunning and emotionally layered episode exploring where we come from and how we change. Wonderful for families navigating big feelings about identity, change, and love.

Books to read 2

There's No Such Thing as a Dragon

Jack Kent

Ages 3–7

Billy discovers a small dragon that grows enormous when nobody acknowledges it β€” a perfect metaphor for feelings that get bigger when ignored, and smaller when named. A clinical favorite for emotional literacy.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Judith Viorst

Ages 4–8

Everything goes wrong for Alexander β€” and he just wants to move to Australia. A beloved validation of the experience of a day when feelings pile up and nothing goes right, without moralizing or false resolution.