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Luca had not yet turned four when he climbed into his mom’s bed in the middle of the night and told her the following dream:

I was running away from a huge T-Rex who was chasing me. Then I remembered, “Wait a minute, I like T-Rex.” So I turned around and told him, “Hey, you’re my favorite dinosaur!” And he picked me up so I could ride, and then we went to the beach together.

In the morning, Luca asked his mother to write the dream down for him. Luca did something inside his dream we all want to learn to do. Instead of running away from something scary, he turned around and faced it, on its own ground. Luca’s mom did the essential first thing that adults need to do with kids’ dreams: she listened. At Luca’s instigation, she then did the next most important thing: she helped her young child to do something fun with a dream, which in this case simply meant writing it down so the story would be a keeper.

Luca often told his dreams to his Aunt Chele, an active dreamer who had been keeping a dream journal for many years. Inspired by Aunt Chele’s example of writing her dreams in her journal, Luca’s mom provided Luca with the most special book any of us will ever have — a book filled with the magic of our dreams and imagination. If we are privileged to have access to young children, one of the greatest gifts we can give them — and in the process, ourselves — is to encourage them to record dreams and stories in a book that will become a journal. I did this with my own daughters. When they were very young, they would do the pictures and I would write the words for them. They took over more and more of the writing as they got older, until, at age nine, they were keeping their journals by themselves and for themselves. Then the same thing happened in each case. They said to me, in effect: “That’s it, Dad. This is my secret book, and you can’t read it anymore.”

Now that’s a journal. The secret book of your Self, not to be shared with anyone without permission, which should not be given lightly.