It may be disconcerting knowing you may only have thirteen, sixteen, possibly twenty years to share your deepest wisdom and life lessons with your children. Once they hit the teen years and begin to think you're not the smartest people in the world anymore, they listen to you much less. Before you know it, they'll think everything you do and say is wrong.

In 100 Most Important Messages from Mom or Dad, psychologist Beth Haessig offers you, as parents, an opportunity to record your values and your wisdom to pass onto your kids. Providing space to relay as many as 100 messages, this...