Mother-Daughter Pass-Back Journal

~$10 typical price

Our pick: Love, Mom and Me: A Mother and Daughter Journal

A guided journal a mother and daughter pass back and forth, with prompts, questions and small activities for each of them.

Why it makes a great gift

It opens a private line between a mom and a daughter at the age when talking face to face gets harder.

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~$14

Mom, I Wrote a Book About You

Kids' answers are funny and honest, and the finished book becomes a keepsake she rereads for years.

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~$12

Letters to My Daughter: Write Now. Read Later.

It keeps a parent’s words for the days she’ll want them most, long after the toys are gone.

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~$15

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.

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~$11

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

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