Sending your kids day-to-day notes, like love notes or lunch box notes while they are young is always a special treat and definitely instills a sense of happiness and belonging at an early age. A bond through note writing is a strong one. However, often many forget the practice when their children get older. Writing milestone notes is even more necessary when your children start to face complicated events in their lives, and recognition or acknowledgment that you may have experienced the same will do wonders for their resilience. It is also a great way for them to know more about you and to see you as a 3-dimensional person rather than a specific lens of parent and child.
Whether you write them now and send them through the Time Secured Time Trigger vault option for later, or write them, as they get older, it does not matter. So long as the notes are written and shared for your growing children to treasure.
Here are only a few notes that you should consider writing to your older children, but there are plenty of other additional reasons to send them heartfelt thoughts through notes.
“Just Because” Note
As our children grow up, you may feel communication with your older children is becoming routine, regimented, and one-sided. So write a note praising your kids praising them or showing how proud you are of them for the littlest things they have done. You can add encouragement, and sometimes these notes can make all the difference in the world for their day or more.
College and Career Note
A note that acknowledges the most important things to instill in them as they were growing up. Before they leave the nest, with a list of traits or characteristics that you want them to take away with them as they face the next chapter of their lives. Here is where life advice can be wisdom well imparted. They can also keep those notes for their kids or loved ones in the future as a reflection of your relationship with them.
“Remember When” Note
However old the children are, they will always get a nice laugh or tear from specific memories that have touched you and them or taught them a valuable life lesson – whether they know it at the time or not. Reflection on the past also reinforces your shared bond and brings up stories and positive feelings that may have been forgotten over time.
“What You Should Know About Me” Note
You will be hard-pressed to meet someone who did not wonder what their parents felt or thought about particular things or events in life. Even if they don’t admit it. These notes are about you, but it gives your children anywhere from closure for traumatic events, to deep feelings you could not openly share with them. Notes make this easier by taking out the walls and preconceptions. These are valuable messages to your kids to not only teach them about the person you are, but inevitably also about the person they are as well or want to be. Anecdotes and analogies on what certain things mean to you make it all the more accessible and give them a new understanding of you. Whether they are shared while you are around as your kids are older and able to understand your perspective or later on in life when you are no longer around (both of which can be done through the Time Secured App easily); these notes are invaluable.
Any of these note types can be shared through scans or emails with multimedia add-ons easily using the Time Secured App. More importantly, the substance and content they entail will be appreciated by your growing children or any loved one for that matter – guaranteed!