A Child’s Journal is a Surprisingly Powerful Tool

A child’s journal is a fantastic bucket emptier and therefore a fabulous activity for a highly sensitive child. Getting thoughts, ideas, stories and experiences on paper is a great way to help children calm their minds (and bodies!) AND makes for a wonderful time capsule!

Tip

Download the free A Year of Me: Monthly Journal Prompts for Kids with Big Feelings

A Blank Piece of Paper

Journaling doesn’t have to mean lots of supplies. It can be as simple as a blank piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Writing about their day, their feelings, an incident – all that, even on a blank piece of paper, can be helpful to process what is going on.

Here are our two personal favourite journals for children.

Time Capsule: A Seriously Awesome Journal

My son enjoys filling his “Time Capsule: A seriously awesome journal” with his thoughts and drawings.

This Katie Clemons journal is such fun.

He mesmerised me as I watched him draw himself as a pirate! He took his sweet time to think up his pirate name….

The most wonderful thing about this activity is that within twenty minutes of filling in a few pages of his journal my son’s bucket is empty. By the time he finishes up he’s smiling from ear to ear. And we have a calm boy ready for his bed.

That’s the power of a kid’s journal.

The journal has changed (at least the cover has) since my eldest owned a copy. It’s been jazzed up but the contents are what we have come to expect from Katie Clemons – fun and awesome.

Big Life Journal – for Children

Another favourite kid’s journal in our house is the Big Life Journal for Kids. We use the Teen Edition and I love it.

There are journals for different age groups and these kid’s journals get children to ask themselves big questions. These journals get kids to delve within themselves and challenge themselves on how they see the world.

The primary focus of the Big Life Journals is to focus on the development of a growth mindset. A focus that is important for highly sensitive children, given perfectionist and fear of failure tendencies.

Further Reading About Journaling

Why Journaling is so Goof for a Highly Sensitive Person

Fill a Page to Empty a Highly Sensitive Mind

For more bucket emptying ideas get the Happy Sensitive Kids book.

Over to You

Do you journal? Do you encourage your children to journal? What benefits do you see? Share your thoughts below.

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