The importance of writing It is among the best ways to complete it with daily activities, and less so than with a personal diary. The skill of journaling begins not only with writing but in knowing how to express emotions and knowing how to express a set of consequences on paper.
We know how important correctness of writing is If it is not controlled from the beginning, it can have serious consequences on academic performance, which is why one of these skill elements is vitally important within the use of a personal diary.
The age to begin to implement this task is five or six years, hence it is ideal that they continue with that rhythm always, although there are phases like adolescence where they begin to use it as an activity.
The important and most fundamental of all is to make children passionate about reading and writing, They never have to take it as boring, since by paying attention to their development, they recreate creativity and are offered a wide range of opportunities to learn the vocabulary.
How to keep a personal diary?
The ideal age to encourage our children to write a journal is from nine or ten years old. You can find a nice notebook so that you can start using it on a daily basis., although there are bookstores that sell newspapers.
- It is ideal that the child begins to write alone, calmly and being in silence. To make it much more original, apart from incorporating only texts, we can encourage them to draw pictures, paste photographs, objects or stickers.
- You have to try to write it every day, if they don't, nothing happens, but they should not be lost on a regular basis. What he writes must be written for him, in an intimate way. Parents should not correct or read what they have written, unless the child allows it and they can always start with the words "dear diary."
What does writing a journal report?
Children must transcribe what they did that day, their daily problems, their memories, their ideas for the future and all of it reflects your emotions. It is a self-help to describe your positive and negative emotions and thus calm your anxiety.
Follow a routine and dedicate a few minutes a day It will help them to know themselves and to have more security. How the intention is to write what we have reviewed makes them unconsciously learn to know themselves.
Benefits it brings
- Helps organize ideas and thinking. It is the way of trying to think about what to write and then represent it.
- It makes the child endowed with what reality is and how his world is governed. You will look more closely at the meaning of things and emotions.
- It helps to get to know yourself more. It is the other way of saying that it favors self-knowledge, since by wanting to write down all their ideas and daily thoughts, you are helping them to know how to manage how they are developing them and the reason for their emotions.
- Power to have a better memory. All the memories will be kept inside that notebook as a great memory. All these memories dissipate over time and reading them again in a while will help to recall those feelings that were there.
- Creativity grows. You have to use your own ingenuity to inspire all these ideas and facts. A diary can not only contain events that have happened, but lists of fears, likes and wishes can be added. This will also serve as a tool for improvement in making better personal decisions.