Q&A a Day for Kids: A Three-Year Journal

The prompts for each day help children to have something short to write about. It would be amazing to look back a few years later to see how they grew up.

Great memories

This book is brilliant! It can take less than a minute to do each day (if you're writing it on their behalf) so it's very doable (or you can make it a bigger conversation if you like) but the idea is each day there is a question at the top that you ask your child and you leave it up to them to interpret how they answer it. You write down the answer they give or older children could do it independently. On each page there is space for 3 entries so you keep going for 3 years and you can then see how their answer to each question evolves over the years, which is lovely. I found the main benefit though is that, when everything is rushed if you're struggling to get quality time with your child this creates a little space in the day where they have your full attention, you're not teaching them, training them, directing them, you're just interested to hear their thoughts on something, and there is no right or wrong answer. You could also use the diary for just one year and use the space to record multiple children's answers if you have more than one. And obviously, if you miss a day, you can do more than one on another day but it's quite nice having that time set aside every day at bedtime or whatever.

I bought this as a gift for my grandson who will soon be 6.It's so much better than a diary, which always sound so good but are very hard to keep up regardless of all the good intentions we start off with.Each page has 1 question and three different sections to write in for this year, next year, and the year after.The questions vary, some are simple eg, what made you smile today, to being a more thoughtful. Eg, did you struggle saying something that was important.Hopefully because it is just 1 question it should be easy to keep up with and it will be nice to see how my grandsons thoughts change as he ages

These are just brilliant. A handful of lines for each day for a child to answer an printed question about something they believe in, how they interpret things, their opinions, facts about their day, hopes and ambitions... The list goes on. My 3 children all started one on Jan 1st and it is a highlight of our evening to 'do our diaries'.super quality and a really novel way to record your child's thoughts and feelings without getting heavy!!! Highly recommended.

Lovely idea, I bought it for my grandchildren 3 years ago when they were 5 and 8 yrs old, and they both wanted another one. Thought provoking questions and opens up conversation with little ones. It encourages them to talk about their feelings which hopefully they will continue to do. It is also lovely for them to look back on.

I saw a similar idea mentioned on Facebook and decided to buy this diary for my 7 year old son. I was worried it was going to be a little over the top and some of the questions might be too 'American' but it is in fact a gorgeous book. I love it as does my son, he can't wait for the next days question and it gives us new things to chat about. We always have a chat at bedtime and this just adds an extra element to this. I highly recommend this book, a fabulous purchase.