Comments on: The Best Journals For Kids

By: Arjun Das

Arjun Das — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:33:13 +0000

Useful Information. Thank you!

By: maria

maria — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:33:00 +0000

These jounals are awesome

By: Rashmie @MommyLabs

Rashmie @MommyLabs — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:50:32 +0000

Great ideas, Melissa. My daughter absolutely loves writing and I encourage her to maintain journals in different shapes and sizes. She loves keeping more than her. I think if that inspires her to write, why not. So we have a travel journal and a night time journal, a letter journal and a nature journal…!
One too many!

By: Michelle Breum

Michelle Breum — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:52:27 +0000

We have journals, but we don’t write in them enough. Good intentions, not enough action. My kids love looking back at older entries. We use our journals as our memory keepers.

You’ve shared some really cool journals here. The buddy journals and mom and daughter journals peeked my interest. I wonder if anyone has made a mother and son, father and son, or father and daughter journal. Wouldn’t that be great! My husband seems too have so much influence with all our kids. Encouraging dads to get involved in writing with kids makes sense.

Our summer is flying by. You’ve motivated me to get a few journals entries done today. Myself included.

By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:46:04 +0000

In reply to Daria.

Daria,

It’s harder to motivate kids to sit down and write, isn’t it? Make it fun and write with them – or have them pick a fun place to write – like the park or zoo.

🙂 Melissa

By: Candy Lawrence

Candy Lawrence — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:09:30 +0000

It’s important to distinguish between creative activities and grammar/spelling activities. A journal is personal and creative, so definitely not for grammar and spelling corrections! but it’s also important to help kids write correctly within other spheres of activity.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:54:05 +0000

As Daria says, sometimes we are quick to neglect writing in pursuit of developing reading, but the plus side of this is that reading will only improve any future writing activities. Daria – try reading as a writer as a step into focusing on writing again. Before writing, say an informal letter to a friend, read a few examples and use these to determine what language features and organizational elements you’ll need to develop 🙂

By: Tif

Tif — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:00:17 +0000

LOVE this post! I’ve used the memo books covered in fabric to personalize them for myself and my children. We’ve got Spiderman, Dora, and other just random patterns. It has been a great project for my school-age son and my preschooler loves to just add stickers and her scribbles while big brother journals. So many wonderful possibilities! I really want to check out the one with prompts though!