I bought this journal for my DH from our DS to give him on Sunday, because I thought it sounded like a really lovely idea. (Lots of questions for him to fill in so it makes a book for DS about DH when he is older.)
It's just arrived, and it is really lovely, and it's made me think I'd like to get my dad to fill one in for me.
But it's made me feel a bit sad at the same time, because my dad never talks about anything from when I was a kid (bad divorce with my mother, but he remarried when I was 5 and he and my step-mother brought me up) and there's things that ask about how your father met your mother etc, which he won't discuss, I imagine. He may also think it's shite and a total waste of time.
But it's really made me wish I'd done something similar when my gran was alive; she was full of stories and it's so hard to believe that all that went when she died last year. I'd hate my dad to die taking all his thoughts and stories without ever sharing them with me, but we've had a few bereavements in the last few years and it makes you think.
Would father's day be the ideal time to give it? Do you think he might percieve it as morbid? Or intrusive? It's made me realise my relationship with my dad is very strange, and not that close. To be honest I often feel like a massive disappointment to him, so that's why am not sure he'd want to do it for me.