Pick the occasion. Answer five prompts. Print one page. It stays on your device, start to finish.
Letter to My Kid Writer
FreePick what it's for and the first prompt shows up.
My dad wasn't around for a stretch of years I needed him. We're good now. But I don't have a single thing in his handwriting from when I was a kid, and I'd give a lot for one page.
I write a letter to dads every month, and every one of them is built the same way: a real moment, what it meant, one thing to carry, one thing to do, and a sign-off from a brother, not a brand. Turns out that's the same frame that works for writing to your own kid. The blank page is what stops most of us. So this takes the blank page away.
Munchkin is two. She can't read this yet. I write them anyway and put them in a box. Lock in. Write one tonight.
Gene, The Dad Post
Start with a moment, not a feeling. Something specific they did that you saw. Then say what it meant to you, give them one thing to carry (one, not five), tell them what you're going to do on your end, and sign off like a dad, not a greeting card. That's the five steps this tool walks you through. Every Dad Post letter is built the same way.
Birthday, the day they were born, the first day of something (school, a team, a job), open when you're older (18, a wedding, when they have a kid), just because, when they're going through something hard, I'm proud of you, and I was wrong. Pick one and you get five prompts written for that moment, with a "different prompt" option on each step.
Nowhere. It stays in your browser on this phone or computer. Nothing is sent to us, no account, no email. Your draft is saved on the device so you can come back and finish it, but if you clear your browser data it's gone. When you're done, print it, copy it, or download it as a text file.
Hit "Print it." You get a clean page with just the letter on it. On a phone, the print screen has a "Save as PDF" option. On a computer, pick "Save as PDF" as the printer. The best version is to copy it out by hand onto real paper. Kids keep those.
Yes, and write it now, not when they're seventeen. Pick "Open when you're older." The prompts have you describe who they are today, who you are today, what you're scared of for them, and the one thing you'd want them to know if you weren't around to say it. Put the date and the open date on the envelope and put it somewhere you won't lose it.
Good. Kids don't want a writer, they want their dad. Every prompt has a "start me off" line you can steal for the first few words. Write it the way you'd say it out loud. Short sentences. Real details. If it sounds like you, it's right.
The Dad Post is a real letter, on paper, in your mailbox once a month. Same five steps, written to you, from a dad in the trenches.
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