Preteen Journal | Tips & Benefits

PreTeen Girl Journal Writing

TweetPreteen Journal | Tips & Benefits – When you are a tween experiencing your first crush, making new friends, exploring who you are as an individual and dealing with all the stress and pressures that are placed on kids today, help and support is needed and necessary. Keeping a journal provides just such an outlet [...]

Good Relationships | Three Tips for Tweens

Good Relationships

TweetTweens— Good Relationships are key to a happy life and journaling can help a child to develop essential skills needed to create good relationships in every area of life, especially with family. If your child is struggling with her relationships at home, she might be surprised to find that keeping a journal can help to [...]

Emotional Relationships | Helping Kids Relate to Others

Emotional Relationships

TweetEmotional relationships are a part of life, even for children. Indeed emotions are a major part of life for everyone and vital to building healthy relationships. It is a fact, however, that the pre-teen years are challenging for most kids when it comes to dealing with emotions, and especially dealing with emotional responses to others. [...]

Controlling Relationships | Helping Kids Deal with Them

Controlling Relationships | Helping Kids Deal with Them

TweetControlling relationships are part of growing up in today’s word and they can be difficult to deal with for many reasons.  This is why good friendships can be a soft place to land, especially for tweens. Good friendships can create an environment where kids feel safe, secure, and loved by special friends. Of course not [...]

Good Relationships: Make New Friends with Journaling

Good Relationships: Make New Friends

TweetGood relationships are vital to everyone’s lives, including preteens. There are many ways that kids make new friends and keep good friendships, but one of the most unexpected ways that a child can develop a new friendship is by keeping a journal. Keeping a journal that helps to build good relationships with new friends means [...]

Making New Friends | Tips to Help Kids Create Friendships

Making Friends

TweetPreteen journaling— Some children make friends easily, but for others it’s a more of a struggle. For this group of children, learning how to handle the challenges with making new friends is the key to actually making friendships. In short, if children become uptight about their inability to make friends and they focus greatly on [...]

Journaling | Helping Pre-Teens To Develop Their Talents

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TweetPreteen Journaling— Everyone has a talent for something or other. One person may have a talent for calculating numbers. Another person may be a skilled craftsman, while yet another can write music or has a lovely voice when they sing. Although we may have been born with inclinations toward a specific talent, we must develop [...]

Journaling Can Help A Pre-teen Become More Aware of Their Environment

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TweetPreteen Journaling— There are many things in and around our lives that we can write about in our journals. As you may have seen in other journaling articles we can write about events that we are involved with or about how those events affect us. We can also write about the people who are involved [...]

How Does Journaling Help Your Pre-teen With Social Skills?

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TweetThe pre-teen years are a time when the social skills we learned as a child become more developed and refined. In our younger years we began to learn that we are not the center of the universe, learning for example to share with others, saying please and thank you. These examples, along with many others, [...]

Setting Goals Through Journaling Encourages A Pre-Teen’s Self-Esteem

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TweetPreteen Journaling for Improved Self Esteem— A pre-teen’s self-esteem is a reflection of their overall evaluation of their own worth and value. It’s that internal feeling that we all have and is the foundation of our self-confidence. Both our self-esteem and self-confidence can be seen by others through our behaviors like assertiveness, caution, procrastination and [...]