Give Your Child a “Safe Journal” –
A Place to Ask You Anything!
photo credit to harvardhomemaker
A Feelings Journal is a great way to help a younger child build an emotional vocabulary. It can be done a few ways. Your child can identify her current emotions, draw a picture and label it, choose a feeling from a feeling poster or wheel to write and draw about or learn a new emotion to draw and write about. This will help them to:
- explore and identify emotions
- feel anger
- express fear
- examine the pros and cons of something in order to be more decisive
- look more carefully at her thoughts about something after the immediate situation has passed
- gain some insight into her own and other people’s motives
- see the positives as well as the negatives
- plan out difficult conversations ahead of time
Click the link below to see more on how you can start a Safe Journal with your own daughter – or son! I think this would be a great thing for boys as well! There are also recommendations for some books that would be perfect to give to your son or daughter as puberty hits. Good luck…..
Give Your Child a “Safe Journal” – A Place to Ask You Anything!