It is one of those life changing events when a baby joins the family and changes our perceptions of love and devotion.
We want the best for our loved one and never rest in our attempts to make them feel our love and support.
And there are so many amazing presents!
The room is ready, painted and furnished to cast warmth and all those toys, clothing, silver spoons, albums ready to be filled with pictures of their "firsts" :-)
So we are sometimes challenged what our present for the little one might be.
Whether you are the loving parent, a close relative, a godparent or just a family friend - you may appreciate a fresh idea on what a unique and meaningful present you can come up with, one that will be used for their lifetime and will be appreciated and cherished.
Here you go:
Create an email for the little one!
An email address with the credentials kept until they are of certain age to give them access to the mailbox is a present that costs nothing yet might thoroughly change how they perceive the parents' love one day! Parents (and not only) can drop emails to the mailbox of the baby, attaching pictures, keeping track of daily routine or events, or just stating their feelings.
You may think - why bother, the baby is going to grow up one day and I can tell him/her everything as it was, and the pictures - we all keep thousands of them anyway. Well, it's not the same, is it? Sending emails as things happen keeps the focus on the details, gives a first person aspect of immediate sharing, preserves the feelings as they are experienced. It is not the same to tell your girl or boy about things that happened years ago, heavily dependent on your recollections and how time has transformed your memories.
Imagine the day when you hand them the credentials to the mailbox - whether at the age of 7, or 10, or 21 - you decide! Your grown up child will read through a pile of personal emails sent to them through the years and life events, they will once again be bathing in your love, experiencing what they might not remember so clearly if at all - and they will experience these through you, the sender of those emails, the one who has always been their for them and always will be!
Tips:
We want the best for our loved one and never rest in our attempts to make them feel our love and support.
And there are so many amazing presents!
The room is ready, painted and furnished to cast warmth and all those toys, clothing, silver spoons, albums ready to be filled with pictures of their "firsts" :-)
So we are sometimes challenged what our present for the little one might be.
Whether you are the loving parent, a close relative, a godparent or just a family friend - you may appreciate a fresh idea on what a unique and meaningful present you can come up with, one that will be used for their lifetime and will be appreciated and cherished.
Here you go:
Create an email for the little one!
An email address with the credentials kept until they are of certain age to give them access to the mailbox is a present that costs nothing yet might thoroughly change how they perceive the parents' love one day! Parents (and not only) can drop emails to the mailbox of the baby, attaching pictures, keeping track of daily routine or events, or just stating their feelings.
You may think - why bother, the baby is going to grow up one day and I can tell him/her everything as it was, and the pictures - we all keep thousands of them anyway. Well, it's not the same, is it? Sending emails as things happen keeps the focus on the details, gives a first person aspect of immediate sharing, preserves the feelings as they are experienced. It is not the same to tell your girl or boy about things that happened years ago, heavily dependent on your recollections and how time has transformed your memories.
Imagine the day when you hand them the credentials to the mailbox - whether at the age of 7, or 10, or 21 - you decide! Your grown up child will read through a pile of personal emails sent to them through the years and life events, they will once again be bathing in your love, experiencing what they might not remember so clearly if at all - and they will experience these through you, the sender of those emails, the one who has always been their for them and always will be!
Tips:
- You may find it useful to create the mailbox at a large public provider, like AOL, Hotmail, Gmail etc. This gives an extra layer of guarantee that the email address will be there for them for a long time and you do not need to worry the service might be discontinued.
- Be careful when choosing the account name. "littlepoomachine@aol.com" might seem a funny one, yet such a name will be embarrassing for them if they decide to keep the account in the future.
- Keep the credentials safe - they will be required. Choose wisely the recovery email address as well.
- To avoid the chances of the account being disabled as a dormant one, it is best to configure the mailbox on a mobile device let's say - this will provide for regular background access to the mailbox and keep it safe.
- Consider carefully who you want to share the email address with - whether it will be just yourself, or other relatives/friends. Everyone who has the address can send an email as a letter to the future.
- Consider the content, language, format and possible attachments to your "correspondence" - these will be read not only at certain age, but available for a life time if not deleted.
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Thank you and may your little one share an amazing life journey with you!