Letters to My Son Keepsake Book
Our pick: Letters to My Son: Write Now. Read Later.
It turns what a parent never quite says out loud into letters he can open at eighteen, at his wedding or on a bad day.

~$12 typical price
Letters to My Daughter: Write Now. Read Later.
A book of a dozen fold-and-seal letters a parent writes now, each marked for the daughter to open at a later age or moment.
Why it makes a great gift
It keeps a parent’s words for the days she’ll want them most, long after the toys are gone.
Our pick: Letters to My Son: Write Now. Read Later.
It turns what a parent never quite says out loud into letters he can open at eighteen, at his wedding or on a bad day.
Our pick: Love, Mom and Me: A Mother and Daughter Journal
It opens a private line between a mom and a daughter at the age when talking face to face gets harder.

It asks for a sentence a day, and by the second year they can read what they thought a year earlier.

Popular with plotters and with drafters who keep stalling in the middle of a book.