Comments on: Keeping a short-term journal

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:50:51 +0000

An extremely wonderful idea. I wish that my mom had suggested I kept a journal when I was that age. I loved to draw and make up my own stories but they are lost forever now because I never wrote them down. Some drawings have survived but I can only guess the stories behind them. It would have been great to show my children one day.

I also find it hard to journal nowadays. I get caught up in my penmanship and grammar to the point where I have many a time given up. I’m sure when I was younger I had less cares for such things and would have gone on and on.

But thank you for sharing this. I’ll try it with my kids one day!

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:42:32 +0000

My mom helped me keep a journal from about the age of 3. I would dictate and draw pictures at the beginning, and as I learned to write I was able to do it myself. We would write on Sunday afternoons. This became one of the most valuable habits I have ever had through my teenage years to the present. My childhood journals are priceless!! Keep going. It doesn’t have to be every day to be incredibly valuable.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:27:48 +0000

LOVE this!

For a while before I started school when I was a kid mom and I wrote a journal together. Before going to bed she took it out. I said what had happened and she wrote from my perspective. All i could write was my name, but it is a great little book that I don’t want to loose.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:07:56 +0000

This is a brilliant idea. Just awesome.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:31:05 +0000

How cute…such a great idea

By: Tftcarrie

Tftcarrie — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:29:22 +0000

Just last week, I began a hunt for a journal for my 4 year old. I remember starting one with the help of my mother at her age. But it wasn’t just a completely blank journal. THere were free pages to draw pictures, and to write the days events (as transcribed by mom), but there were also prompts and questions to get the small journaler talking. It was really fabulous and a great way to record the wonderfully creative mind of a four year old.

But I can’t find anything like it anymore. I might just have to get a blank book and insert my own questions.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:40:32 +0000

I love this idea. I am actually sort of dissapointed you only posted about it now, as my own son’s grandparents just got back from a 7 week overseas trip, and he (and the grandparents!) would have loved this sort of project. Great idea! AJs pictures are amazing too.

By: lara

lara — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:44:55 +0000

I’d just like to say that from a primary school teachers point of view, I think that you are giving your daughter such a fantastic start to literacy learning by doing this project with her. I wish all new school children could have done this type of activity at home in their pre-school years. Well done and keep up the good work!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:43:53 +0000

That is absolutely priceless. Everything, from your very good observation that AJ’s 5 wk journal had a definite point to it, to the reminders that some days will be more productive than others. Thank you so much for this post, I can’t wait to find an appropriate time to do this with my 4 yr old.