When Jeff Atwood’s daughter began her senior year of high school, he started texting her life advice every morning. That daily ritual turned into a book years later. “When she got to the beginning of her senior year of high school, it caught me by surprise, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is sort of our last lap. Does she know what she needs to know?’ I mean, it really was one of those things, as a dad, you’re likely to think of. ‘She’s gonna go out into the world here and have I done my job? My wife and I—have we done our jobs helping her?’” said father of three daughters Jeff Atwood.
Throughout that year, friends and family started hearing he was sending his daughter the texts. “I would talk to my friends about it, ‘You know what, man guys, this is it. And so, you know, I want to do all that I can to make sure that that stuff just sits in her heart and in their mind.’ And they thought highly of what I did.”
He said other dads and parents kept asking him what he was sending in those messages and before long, he decided to write a book. His book, Need to Know for Graduates, which came out in Spring 2022 includes his texts and even has a page for gift-givers to include their own words of wisdom for their graduate.
His daughter, McKenzie who received all her dad’s texts in her senior year said they always had a close relationship and that year of messages was really further confirmation of that special bond. “It made me really delighted to just hear all these different pieces of advice and wonder whether the next one was going to be.” said McKenzie with a smile.
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