The Original

Focus: Birth through adulthood

📖 230+ Prompts that reflect the growth and personality of the child and parent:

  • Your authentic fears, joys, and struggles at each stage

  • Stories that reveal your child's emerging personality

  • The evolution of your relationship and parenting approach

  • World events and personal circumstances that shaped your family's journey

📝 Sample Prompts:

  • The biggest surprise about parenthood that I never saw coming:

  • When you're tackling something challenging, here's what I observe about your approach:

  • Becoming your parent has completely changed how I understand love. What you've taught me:

  • Looking back on my parenting journey, here's what I want you to understand about my efforts and my failures:

Ages 5-12

📖 130+ Prompts that reflect the growth and personality of the child and parent:

  • Your child's emerging independence and unique personality traits

  • How your parenting evolved as they discovered their own world

  • The values you tried to instill and family traditions that mattered most

  • Your hopes and concerns as they navigated friendships and school

  • The everyday moments and adventures that defined this chapter

📝 Sample Prompts:

  • I see your truest self emerge when:

  • My thought process for knowing when to help versus when to let you struggle:

  • The popular parenting wisdom I've deliberately rejected because it doesn't suit who you are:

  • How we find our way back to each other after we've had conflict:

  • What I hope you'll remember when you're facing something that feels impossible:

The Teenage Years

📖 130+ Prompts that reflect the growth and personality of the child and parent:

  • Your teenager's journey toward becoming who they're meant to be

  • The hard conversations, boundary struggles, and breakthrough moments

  • How you learned to step back while staying connected

  • Your private hopes and fears during their high school years

  • The wisdom you wished you could share but knew they needed to discover themselves

📝 Sample Prompts:

  • During times when you're struggling but won't accept my comfort, here's what I wish I could say:

  • Things I've noticed about your social relationships that I'm keeping to myself for now:

  • The day I first recognized that you'd grown beyond me in certain ways:

  • What raising a teenager is teaching me about releasing control:

  • The parts of who you are right now that I pray you'll carry into adulthood: