A Free Online Companion
Your Real Life Toolkit
Printable worksheets, parent guides, bonus challenges, and safe tools — everything your family needs to bring Welcome to Real Life off the page and into the week.
A Free Online Companion
Printable worksheets, parent guides, bonus challenges, and safe tools — everything your family needs to bring Welcome to Real Life off the page and into the week.
The book is here
The workbook this toolkit is built around. Ten chapters, ten Try This challenges, a parent guide for every chapter. Written for kids age 10 and the grown-ups who love them.
Get on AmazonEvery chapter of Welcome to Real Life ends with a Try This challenge. This is where you get the printable version of each one — plus a little extra.
Chapter 1
Map what you’re good at, love doing, and care about. Find your superpower zone.
Open worksheet
Chapter 2
Track one honest day. See the balance. No judgment — just data.
Open tracker
Chapter 3
Save, Spend, Share. One week. Real or imaginary. Honest choices.
Open tracker
Chapter 4
Write the words before you say them. I-statement + real request.
Open worksheet
Chapter 5
Three days. Three strongest feelings each day. Find the pattern.
Open tracker
Chapter 6
Private. Honest. A quiet look at your friendships right now.
Open worksheet
Chapter 7
Sleep. Food. Movement. Screens. See what your body is telling you.
Open tracker
Chapter 8
Before and after. Real decisions. Get better at making them.
Open entry page
Chapter 9
One act of service. One real change you made this week.
Open planner
The last one. Write to yourself a year from now. Seal it. Open it then.
Open stationeryFor Parents
Ten research-backed guides, one per chapter of Welcome to Real Life. What the research says. How to do the activity together. Conversation starters that actually go somewhere. What to watch for.
Crisis resources built into Ch 5. Body-image sensitivity handled in Ch 7. Pulled verbatim from the book so the voice stays honest.
Open the Parent Corner
For kids who finish the book and want more. Small extra challenges that build on what you’ve already practiced.
Open bonus challenges →Kid-approved, parent-approved apps and tools for budgeting, journaling, learning, creativity, and a few just-for-fun ones too. Curated over in the AI Toolkit.
Browse the Toolkit →50 ready-to-use conversation starters, pulled straight from the topics in Welcome to Real Life. For the moments when you want to go deeper with your kid and don’t know where to start.
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Welcome to Real Life is the interactive workbook for parents and kids (ages 10) to learn real-life skills together — strengths, screens, money, hard conversations, feelings, friendships, bodies, decisions, service, and the person you’re becoming.
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