Jorrit Wiersma wrote about writing about his daughter:
Saskia and I don’t have diaries like that from our parents (at least that I’m aware of) so I can’t really imagine what it would be like.
Jay McCarthy commented:
I certainly don’t have a diary from that time.
My mother did write about me. A few years ago she gave me my baby book filled with descriptions she had scribbled.
Perhaps it’s not a diary like the one Jorrit and Saskia are keeping for Silke, since it’s not free-form journal entries. The book was organized by topics, with titles printed on the pages, giving guidelines for what to write.
Under the title “Amusing sayings” my mom recorded a few sentences I said at age “2 1/2” and included some context:
I look at these words I said when I was two, and I see in these four sentences truth of who I am today, thirty years later.
