4 ways to send a message to the future for your child

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The news that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are having a daughter flooded all Facebook feeds. A touching letter that young parents wrote and posted on the Internet for their little child, brought emotion to almost the whole world. That is why our guest author Alina Rodina, PR manager and blogger, today tells all moms and dads about how you can send a message to your child in the future.

Priscilla and I are so happy to welcome our daughter Max into this world! For her birth, we wrote a letter to her about …

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on December 1, 2015

I think each of us would be happy to receive a similar message from our parents, which they would write on your birthday.

1. Minute of Life - video messages to the future

This is an unusual service that allows you to create and present a special "minute" of your life in the form of a video message to a specific person. In a special media editor, you can record a personal video message or create a slideshow from your photos, add text, music, animation. After the message is ready, it can be "placed" at a specific minute of time, on a specific day, when it will become available for viewing by the recipient. Optionally, you can set the publicity or privacy of the message. If the message is public, in addition to the recipient's personal page, it will also be displayed on the main virtual clock of the site at the time you specified.

The site operates in English, Spanish and Russian. There is also a special template, which is called “Message to the future”.

2. Email to the future

Now on the Internet there are many services that allow you to send email with a deferred date. Almost all of them are free. Here is just a small selection that caught my eye when I searched for it on Google:

• Futureme.org,
• WhenSend.com,
• MailFuture.ru,
• MagicWish.ru.

In general, writing letters to the future is useful not only for your children, but also for the future generation as a whole or for yourself. When you write such a letter, you involuntarily imagine what you have become, what you have achieved, what you are doing and what you have. Thus, a clear picture of your future is formed, the way you want to see yourself in a couple of years. When I wrote my email back in 2037, I realized an important thing: my happiness and everything that I wish to have directly depends on me now.

3. Create a time capsule

At the age of 11, I created my first "time capsule". It sounds very loud, but it was an ordinary cardboard shoe box, which I wrapped with 10 layers of tape and on which I stuck a piece of paper with the inscription "Do not open until 18 years old." Inside were my personal diaries and notes with tearful complaints and desires, postcards, magazine clippings (remember Cool Girl?), Tetris and Kinder Surprise toys.

You can create a similar "capsule" yourself for your child. Put in there things typical of our time that in a few years will seem like a rarity: an iPod with your favorite tracks, a handwritten postcard.

4. Child's Internet diary

I think many people remember or even kept secret diaries in which they talked about everything sore and what happened during the day. Previously, entries were made in ordinary notebooks, but now technology allows you to keep a diary online and attach videos or photos to your notes. I am sure that it will be incredibly interesting for your child to revisit all those moments and events from his still unconscious life that you will write in bright colors in such a diary. Fortunately, there are enough such services now. For Russian speakers, you can use Mydaybook or take the English-language Penzu, which also has applications for iOS and Android.

I wish you inspiration and creativity. See you in the future.:)