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: