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The Autumn Memory Book Challenge
A gentle four-week challenge for families: capture one meaningful moment each week and gather them into a shared Memory Book.
Making Memories · 30 September 2026 · 2 min read · MMOY Editorial
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A gentle four-week challenge for families: capture one meaningful moment each week and gather them into a shared Memory Book.
Making Memories · 30 September 2026 · 2 min read · MMOY Editorial
The hardest part of making a family photo book is not the design. It is choosing which stories belong inside it.
Photo Books & Keepsakes · 28 September 2026 · 2 min read · Divan van der Watt
We have never taken more photographs, or looked at them less. A printed photo book changes that, and families notice the difference immediately.
Photo Books & Keepsakes · 24 September 2026 · 4 min read · MMOY Editorial
Five easy ideas for spending meaningful time together as a family, even in a busy week.
Family Time · 20 September 2026 · 1 min read · Guest Contributor
Children do not only inherit our genes and our habits. They inherit our family stories, and those stories quietly shape who they believe they are.
Family Stories & History · 15 September 2026 · 7 min read · Divan van der Watt
We asked three generations of one family to describe the same photograph. Their stories were completely different, and all of them were true.
Family Stories & History · 12 September 2026 · 2 min read · Petro van der Watt
Most parents want more family time but feel the week slipping away. The answer is rarely a big change. It is protecting small, regular moments together.
Family Time · 10 September 2026 · 4 min read · Divan van der Watt
When we hear the word legacy, we often think of money or property. A family legacy is something quieter, and in many ways more lasting.
Legacy & Traditions · 5 September 2026 · 4 min read · Divan van der Watt
Photographs are easy to take and easy to lose. This guide shows how to preserve family memories so they can still be found, understood and shared in twenty years.
Making Memories · 2 September 2026 · 8 min read · Divan van der Watt
Tell it again. Every parent hears it. Children love family stories, and they want the same ones over and over. That repetition is doing important work.
Parenting & Childhood · 30 August 2026 · 4 min read · Petro van der Watt

Blog · 27 August 2026 · Divan van der Watt
Ask adults what they remember from childhood and they rarely mention the expensive holiday. They remember family rituals: the small things that happened again and again.
Making Memories · 25 August 2026 · 4 min read · Petro van der Watt
A development article that contains every supported content block, so the editor and the public renderer can be checked together.
Family Time · 22 August 2026 · 1 min read · Divan van der Watt
Thousands of photographs can still leave a family with almost nothing they can hold. The problem is not taking pictures. It is never turning them into a memory.
Legacy & Traditions · 18 August 2026 · 1 min read · Divan van der Watt
An old photograph is a doorway. Behind every face and faded background is a story, if you know how to ask about it.
Family Stories & History · 18 August 2026 · 4 min read · MMOY Editorial
Shared family meals are one of the oldest family rituals there is. In busy households they are easy to lose, and worth fighting for.
Family Time · 12 August 2026 · 4 min read · Petro van der Watt
Nostalgia is not an accident of ageing. It is one of the ways a family stays itself — and science is catching up with what grandparents already knew.
Making Memories · 10 August 2026 · 2 min read · Divan van der Watt
Family traditions can look small from the outside: a recipe, a song, a yearly trip. From the inside, they are how a family recognises itself.
Legacy & Traditions · 8 August 2026 · 4 min read · Divan van der Watt
Confidence in children is often built in small moments nobody notices: a task finished alone, a problem solved, a story told and listened to.
Parenting & Childhood · 5 August 2026 · 4 min read · Divan van der Watt
Family heirlooms are only as meaningful as the stories attached to them. Here is how to choose what to pass down and how to keep the stories with them.
Legacy & Traditions · 30 July 2026 · 4 min read · Petro van der Watt
The memories families treasure most are often from ordinary days: an unplanned afternoon, a kitchen conversation, a walk that took longer than it needed to.
Making Memories · 28 July 2026 · 4 min read · MMOY Editorial
Grandparents carry stories nobody else remembers. These questions to ask grandparents can help you hear them, and keep them, while there is still time.
Family Stories & History · 22 July 2026 · 4 min read · Petro van der Watt
A long title, on purpose, so we can see how the journal and the editor behave when a headline runs on.
Parenting & Childhood · 20 July 2026 · 1 min read · Divan van der Watt

Family values are not taught in a single conversation. Children learn them by watching how the adults around them make small choices every day.
Parenting & Childhood · 15 July 2026 · 4 min read · MMOY Editorial
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