Correspondance

I just started reading this blog - A Magical Childhood - last month. I haven't used many of the ideas on it yet but I like a lot of them.

I did just start this one though - it's number 8 in this post.

Basically you get a blank notebook and write a letter to your child. Give it to them asking them to write back and then pass it back and forth until it's full. I might add drawing pictures, sketches or cartoons as an option as well.

I wrote Alex his first message this morning. The grin on his face when I told him I wrote him a letter was worth far more than the 10 minutes I spent writing it. The sparkle in his eyes when I told him it was just between the two of us was absolutely priceless.

He wrote me back this afternoon. I plan to leave a new letter for him for tomorrow.

I'm primarily interested in seeing what he will want to tell me and share with me. And also making him feel special and individual since during the summer him and Maya get grouped together most of the time. But there is the added bonus of him getting extra practice writing.