"It is not enough to love your kids. You have to tell them that you love them. They need your love poem tattooed on their hearts so they can take it with them wherever they go."
I think many of you are in the same time frame that we are with aging parents. We recently experienced having to clean out my parent's home after they had lived there for over 50 years.
We found drawers stuffed with photos we had never seen of my parent's early lives and in a trunk in the attic, we found stories written by my father during WWII. And many are riveting!
Fortunately, my father was a prolific writer. One document we found was a typewritten record of what he was experiencing during the invasion of Normandy, typed out as he was on his ship, waiting to join in the invasion of Normandy. He journaled the details from morning til night in 1944...WOW!
Of course, he never wanted to talk about it and I have found many veterans of his age never spoke about what they witnessed.
And now that he is no longer with us, we cannot ask questions. It's too late now, but we have his writings. And thankfully, we have PRINTED PHOTOS!
So, what does this have to do with me and my business?
As always with our clients, we are focusing our marketing efforts on encouraging them to leave a legacy for the coming generations by not neglecting doing portraits of their children.
Our studio's emphasis is always on the PRINT.
Encourage your clients to not only do timely portraits of their children and their families, but provide ways for them to write love letters to their children and please, please, PRINT THEIR PORTRAITS.
Download our Journaling Kit here so you can provide your clients with a beautifully designed way to create a written legacy to go along with their portraits.
These tales are family heirlooms held in the heart, not the head. They are a gift to each generation that preserves them by remembering them and passing them on.
As you pass along, to you clients, this idea of creating legacies through both portraits and stories, here are 3 questions you may want to encourage your clients to ask their family members (while they still have them around) to enhance the story portion:
1. Where did the story take place?
2. Who is in the story?
3. What happened in the story?
These types of questions may lead them to hear a family story that they may never have heard before. Then, ask, "How did it end," to have a conclusion.
We need to value these "whispers of the past!"
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