When the school year wrapped up, I was really anxious to see both of the kids’ final report cards, but it wasn’t just to see their academic success. With one kid in kindergarten and the other in preschool, a lot of their academic growth is still focused on social growth. So when both kids had notes from their teachers that they are happy, kind, and good friends, I felt like doing back flips.
So all those times of reminding them over and over to say please and thank you, encouraging them to be kind and respectful, and looking for those teachable moments to model the kind of tiny humans we want to bring up in this world, was actually paying off. But, Friends, this isn’t my first rodeo, and I know my job isn’t done around here. But you know how we always joke that we need a manual for raising kids, I feel like I found one that’s going to help me during this journey of raising kind and grateful kids, The Big Life Journal.
The Big Life Journal is a six-month journal that’s designed for you and your children to complete together. It’s broken into 13 different concepts, each covered over a span of two weeks. So don’t worry that it’s going to be ONE MORE THING you have to do, forget to do, and then feel guilty about. Really!
Every concept comes with an illustration, poem, quote, and a story, and all of stories are based on real entrepreneurs, scientists, authors, non-profit founders that you and your kids can really relate to and will want to know more about. YES to positive influences in our kid’s lives, right? Here’s my favorite lesson: Being Persistent with a little story about a book called Harry Potter and how it almost never happened.
After each concept, you help your kids respond to questions that require them to think about things related to and discussed about each section of the journal. So they start talking, you start talking, and the entire family can start talking–brilliant considering I ask my son what he did in school and he says “I forgot.”
Something that encourages you and your children to spend REAL time together, gets everyone talking to each other, and gives you the perfect opportunity help your kids learn about positive influences, which they so need right now, I know you are thinking–“Where do I get this journal?”
As with any great idea, the Big Life Journal needs financial backing through a Kickstarter campaign and I really love how each level of donation can help benefit your child’s life and another child too. So swing over to their Kickstarter page to learn more about The Big Life Journal and to see how you can get your hands on one.
The Big Life Journal is on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram too
I was compensated for this post, but all opinions are 100% because I really love this journal.
Such a cool idea! Lord knows I could have used this when I was younger…it took me until I was an adult to fully understand what gratitude meant!
This Journal is a God-send for a parent like me, AKA: a mother of a son who doesn’t talk about ANY OF THE THINGS… 🙂