Journalling has this incredible ability to bring inner fears, desires, and frustrations out into the open, and give them a more or less concrete form onscreen or on paper.
It is a form of psychotherapy where you are both the therapist and the prone figure on the couch.
And all it costs is the price of a journal.
As such it can be an invaluable tool for a teenager.
Let's examine how journalling can be a fun activity that educates, entertains, and eliminates boredom for your teen.
Teenagers can be awfully secretive creatures.
They exist in a world of their own or in a virtual reality that very easily excludes parents.
What this usually means is that a teen soul can be chock full of tensions, fears, sadness, as well as hopes, dreams, and desires which you have no hope of ever getting to know or even share.
Even if you share the best of relationships with your teen, there is always the chance that there are things that a teen could never bring herself to tell you.
If you can get your teen to pour it all out onto the pages of a journal, that would be a safety valve that restores balance and serenity.
In addition to playing the role of confidante to your teen, a journal can also be a wonderful source of inspiration.
Anyone who has put pen to paper knows how that simple act can lead to exciting acts of creative ingenuity you never knew you had.
You can never quite say where it can lead to.
Wizards, vampires, secret agents, fairies, princesses, sci-fi, to international espionage are all waiting to make an appearance, all for want of an imaginative mind that can wield a pen.
Now, at least some parents might think that journalling is for girls.
Well, truth be told it is often girls who have the habit of confiding their deepest, darkest secrets to their dear diaries.
But then journalling is a norm in school activities and some assignments calls for detailed journalling from beginning to end.
Therefore, journalling cannot be strictly classified as a girly pastime.
The one thing that may set apart a teen girl's journal from that of a boy might the extra embellishing and bedazzling leading to a more creative and colourful effort.
The very act of journalling is emancipating for teens, especially those that can't stand school.
It's not just the perfect venue to vent wholeheartedly about what an idiot the math teacher is, but it can be done with no fear of misspelling, wrong grammar, or wrong syntax.
It's your world and here you make the rules.
That's just what sets journalling apart from other writing exercises and makes it a fun activity.
You're not writing for anyone but you.
Of course, we all know that you simply do not peek or read another person's journal without their explicit permission.
That is why this is the only book that usually comes with a lock and key to keep it from prying eyes.
But you most certainly can't expect a teenage boy to be seen with one of those things.
That's why a secret file in their personal computer would be the ideal journal for young teens.
Youngsters who are very particular about their space and privacy will find journalling right up their alley; if only they are introduced to it at the right time.
It is a form of psychotherapy where you are both the therapist and the prone figure on the couch.
And all it costs is the price of a journal.
As such it can be an invaluable tool for a teenager.
Let's examine how journalling can be a fun activity that educates, entertains, and eliminates boredom for your teen.
Teenagers can be awfully secretive creatures.
They exist in a world of their own or in a virtual reality that very easily excludes parents.
What this usually means is that a teen soul can be chock full of tensions, fears, sadness, as well as hopes, dreams, and desires which you have no hope of ever getting to know or even share.
Even if you share the best of relationships with your teen, there is always the chance that there are things that a teen could never bring herself to tell you.
If you can get your teen to pour it all out onto the pages of a journal, that would be a safety valve that restores balance and serenity.
In addition to playing the role of confidante to your teen, a journal can also be a wonderful source of inspiration.
Anyone who has put pen to paper knows how that simple act can lead to exciting acts of creative ingenuity you never knew you had.
You can never quite say where it can lead to.
Wizards, vampires, secret agents, fairies, princesses, sci-fi, to international espionage are all waiting to make an appearance, all for want of an imaginative mind that can wield a pen.
Now, at least some parents might think that journalling is for girls.
Well, truth be told it is often girls who have the habit of confiding their deepest, darkest secrets to their dear diaries.
But then journalling is a norm in school activities and some assignments calls for detailed journalling from beginning to end.
Therefore, journalling cannot be strictly classified as a girly pastime.
The one thing that may set apart a teen girl's journal from that of a boy might the extra embellishing and bedazzling leading to a more creative and colourful effort.
The very act of journalling is emancipating for teens, especially those that can't stand school.
It's not just the perfect venue to vent wholeheartedly about what an idiot the math teacher is, but it can be done with no fear of misspelling, wrong grammar, or wrong syntax.
It's your world and here you make the rules.
That's just what sets journalling apart from other writing exercises and makes it a fun activity.
You're not writing for anyone but you.
Of course, we all know that you simply do not peek or read another person's journal without their explicit permission.
That is why this is the only book that usually comes with a lock and key to keep it from prying eyes.
But you most certainly can't expect a teenage boy to be seen with one of those things.
That's why a secret file in their personal computer would be the ideal journal for young teens.
Youngsters who are very particular about their space and privacy will find journalling right up their alley; if only they are introduced to it at the right time.
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