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What to write in a New Year’s Day letter to your son

Write it now, and your son opens the letter on New Year’s Day. Answer these three questions in your own words, and the letter is mostly written.

Write a New Year’s letter with these questions

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A couple walking arm in arm on a winter beach on New Year’s morning

Three questions to start from

  1. 1How did your family spend New Year’s Day when you were young?What you ate, who came by, what you stayed up for.
  2. 2Is there a New Year’s tradition you hope your son keeps?Even a small one.
  3. 3What do you want to say to your son as the year starts?Stop when you’re ready.

Watch Ruth write one on her phone

She answers the questions, and Forever Photo writes the first draft. Press Play to hear it with sound.

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A sample letter

Ben,

Happy New Year. If you were out late, drink a glass of water first and read this after.

My dad made us eat black-eyed peas every New Year’s Day for luck. I hated them. I made them for you every year anyway, and you hated them too. Sorry. I’d do it again.

Last year was a hard one for you. I know there was more to it than you told me. You kept going in to work and you still called every Sunday. I noticed.

Write down one thing you want this year. Just one. Stick it on the fridge where you’ll see it with your coffee.

Mom

Write a New Year’s letter with these questions

The same questions, one at a time. New Year’s Day is already picked as the day the letter arrives.

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