Count the Bad Mommies

Monday, March 10, 2008

Letters Into the Future

This week's homework takes the form of a letter.


You will write this letter to your kid(s), with the intention that he/she will receive it on an important milestone in their life.

This milestone can be anything - an age (16/18/21), an event (passing their drivers' licence, sex for the first time, going away to college....) or any time in the future you think is appropriate.

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939
"Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
PS: if you're not a bad mommy, feel free to do the homework in the comments section, or on your own blog, and paste a link to it in the comments section!

3 comments:

Boobah's Mom said...

I think this is a FABULOUS idea. I can't wait to get started on my letter...oh, wait, I already have.

Would love to read everyone else's!

Patchwork said...

Brilliant-like.

Can't wait!

AngelConradie said...

cool!!! i like it!!!