MN Author Encourages Parents to Give the Gift of Primary Time to Children This Holiday Season

Primary Time with Children Helps Build and Strengthen Self Esteem

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the more time parents spend with their children the more they “will be able to help them tune in to their abilities, skill-building activities, and healthy friendships.”

Not all time spent with children is the same. 

What type of quality time are you spending with your child?

• There is primary time, when a child is the sole focus of a parent's attention.

• There is secondary time -- helping with homework, for example, while cooking dinner. 

• And then there is a third category of passively being with children, such as watching TV.

Designed to be a primary time activity for parent of children 7 - 17, Journal Buddies takes journaling and its many positive benefits to a new level. 

Download Free Excerpts for the Journals Here

Unlike ordinary, blank or lined journals, Journal Buddies: A Girls Journal for Sharing and Celebrating Magnificence and Journal Buddies: A Boy’s Journal for Discovering and Sharing Excellence focus on self-expression and self-discovery through guided, creative, and interactive journaling. 

These journals include innovative and creative journaling tools such as creative journaling tips, daily lists of qualities, traits and talents each buddy admires about the other, a “thought for the day”, lined and unlined pages and a focus word of the day.

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Parents and kids complete each of the 30 entries in Journal Buddies as a team AND are encouraged to write, draw, cut, paste, and create in their own unique journaling styles.  Get your copy of the free report “89 Creative Journaling Ideas.”

A Special Message for Parents from the Journal Buddies Author

“It's a celebration of qualities, traits and talents that parents like about their kids and that kids like about their parents,” says Jill Schoenberg, the author and publisher of Journal Buddies. 

With Journal Buddies parents make a BIG difference in the development of their kids self-esteem as they take the time to identify, share and record exactly which characteristics they value in their child. 

And, according to Kidsource.com, "The extent to which children believe they have the characteristics valued by the important adults and peers in their lives figures greatly in the development of self-esteem." 

There's a special version of Journal Buddies for girls, and one for boys, too!  Buy your copies today! 

Here's to Quality Family Time...

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The Journal Buddies books are available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher. 

For more information, please contact the author of the Journal Buddies book series, Jill Schoenberg.  In addition to her books, Jill – an experienced Youth Worker – also offers workshop on creative journaling.

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