Two stories. Two people worth celebrating. 🎁
My Amazing Teacher and All About My Mom let your child create a meaningful personalized gift in about 10 to 15 minutes.
Teacher Appreciation Week is here, and Mother's Day is Sunday. If you're looking for something thoughtful that won't take an afternoon to pull together, I want to tell you about two Wanderly stories built exactly for this moment: My Amazing Teacher and All About My Mom. Each one asks your child a series of questions, and a custom story is created on the fly, centered entirely on the person they're celebrating. The whole thing takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Does that sound like your kind of last-minute?
Two stories. Two people worth celebrating.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS
The answer you didn't expect — and the one worth waiting for
When I sat down with my daughter Alanna to make her teacher's story this week, it wasn't instant magic. Second grade was hard, and finding words to describe what she appreciated about her teacher took some sitting with the silence.
Her first answer? "When she said we didn't have to do cursive." Not exactly the warm tribute I was hoping for. But that small moment gave us space to talk about what it means to give a gift, and how appreciation is really about noticing what someone does for you, not what they didn't make you do.
She thought a little harder. And what she landed on was a memory of struggling through a spelling test while her teacher offered quiet encouragement: "Good job. Amazing." Just that. Exactly that.
Part of the work as a parent is holding that space open, sitting with the silence, and trusting that something real is there underneath. These stories have a gentle way of helping kids find it.
Last year my girls made All About My Mom and All About My Dad for my parents, and what struck me wasn't just seeing my parents through my daughters' eyes; it was how much more my girls were willing to share inside a Wanderly story than they ever would if I asked them directly.
My youngest, three at the time, associated my mom with a pair of pants my mother had sewn for her (and I knew that my mom would cherish being seen for her act of love). And my eldest, I learned, had been quietly watching The Deadliest Catch with her grandpa whenever I wasn't around. 😆 I never would have known to ask. She never would have brought it up on her own.
“Want a printed PDF?”
PDF printing isn't quite self-service yet, but we've got you. Just complete your story and press the "Print PDF" button at the end of the story to send us an email — we'll have your PDF ready within a couple of hours during Pacific Time business hours, all this week.
P.S. All About My Mom and All About My Dad don't just work with dads and moms; sometimes we have chosen family or people who play different roles. You can customize the story to work with other mother and father figures in your child's life.