Before You Forget - The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for Your Children

Whether you're expecting your first child or you’re a parent already, Before You Forget – The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for Your Children is a must have book. Diary writing for your children is a valuable and creative parenting tool that can build your child’s self-esteem, enhance your parenting skills, inspire your storyteller within, and allow you and your child to savor special moments for years to come. Most importantly, these diaries allow your child to be the hero or heroine of their own life’s journey detailing stories and experiences from before birth through their childhood years. In chapters such as “Creative Juicing: Nurturing Creativity in Parents and Kids,” “Comedy, Mishaps, and Mischief: Writing Adventure Stories of Daily Life,” and “Amidst and Across the Generations: Saving Family Stories,” diary writing expert and family counselor Kelly DuMar introduces you to the wonderful, endless possibilities of how and why to keep diaries for your children and offers creative, imaginative solutions to parenting’s most frequent dilemmas. Buy a blank book, pick up a pen, and open the diary door for your child today! Write the stories, keep the fire, tend the hearth. When they leave they will take the diaries with them and always return, return to the flame, and pass it on.