Product Description

Journal Buddies is a Mom's Choice Awards® Silver Recipient and is a fun, interactive journal intended to help adults (parents, teachers, mentors...) build and strengthen a girl's self-esteem.

This meaningful and creative journal is appropriate for kids ages 7 - 14 and may be used peer-to-peer, child-to-parent, student-to-adult or any combination thereof.

These powerful but simple journals are truly a fresh and invigorating take on journal keeping.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #711853 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
"I highly recommend this journal." -- Alana Morales, Book Reviews Editor, JustForMom.com

"A wonderful journal." -- Christian Lewis, KidsBookShelf.com

"Journal Buddies is simply brilliant!" -- "Aunt" Laya Saul, Author

"Very highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review, Small Press Bookwatch, Reviewer's Choice

From the Publisher
It's Here! The most innovative journal to hit the market in decades. It's interactive, creative, easy, effective, fun and guides you on how to have a major positive impact on a child's self-esteem in less than 10 minutes a day.

From the Author
The material I present in Journal Buddies is intended to shed light on the magnificent Spirit that dwells within us all and to help facilitate a fun and enjoyable process of self-discovery.

With the help of some wonderful and supportive buddies, I hope this book inspires girls of all ages - even grown-up ones - to focus on the many magnificent qualities, traits, and talents we all possess and sometimes forget to share and celebrate.

Here's to your magnificence...

Jill Schoenberg,
Journal Buddies creator and author

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Tool for Tweens and Teens!
JOURNAL BUDDIES is a wonderful journal designed to help boost girls' self-esteem. Daily affirmations and journal buddies (friends who contribute to the journal) make this book a must! My daughter loves hers, and a huge bonus: I'm one of her journal buddies. :-)

An eloquently written guide for assisting young women on their path to discovering the better half of their artistic abilities
An excellent and practical read which is very highly recommended to young women, especially those with artistic aspirations, Journal Buddies: A Girl's Journal For Sharing And Celebrating Magnificence by Jill Schoenberg Girma is an eloquently written guide for assisting young women on their path to discovering the better half of their artistic abilities. Readers will find easy access to their muse after reading through the delightful, idea-filled pages of Journal Buddies. Nearly every page has room to write so that the young women may write their thoughts on each given subject.

Simplicity draws journaler inward
Reviewed by Peta Andersen for Reader Views (2/06)

"Journal Buddies" is a self esteem system. Targeting pre-teen girls, the book focuses on having readers work with a partner to discover what is special about themselves.

The idea of looking at what is positive about one's self is not new, but Schoenberg Girma's approach is fresh. "Focus on what you love, like and enjoy -- and your life will become more of what you love, like and enjoy...even when you're having a hard day, in fact especially when you're having a hard day!"

Covering a thirty day period, each entry offers a focus word, inviting the reader to write what that word means to them. Some words grow repetitive - synonyms for the same concept - beauty and beautiful, for example. Others are a fresh and warm surprise, tempting as a loaf of new bread.

For this reviewer, an infrequent journaler at best, writing in "Journal Buddies" each day was, at first, slightly chore-like. There was the task of finding a buddy to help brain-storm positive things about me - though Schoenberg Girma offers the chosen buddy could be a beloved pet, I did not feel quite right talking to a parakeet, mouse, or ferret. Next came the actual writing. Focused writing is difficult for writers; for a pre-teen it would be very much like a school assignment, or an offering from the school counsellor. After a few days, however, the process grew easier - sit down, talk about my positive attributes, write about the focus word and the good things that had happened to me during the day. Good things are one of Schoenberg Girma's key points - "Journal Buddies" is not a place for self-pity and the like. It is about positivity. "Most importantly," says Schoenberg Girma, "by using this journal a girl learns how to strengthen her sense of self-esteem and self-confidence by developing and enhancing a positive outlook of herself with the help of buddies."

At the end of the month, how did I feel? Good, for the most part. After a rocky start, I have to say I enjoyed the process of "Journal Buddies." It lacks the bells and whistles of other journals in the teen and pre-teen group, but it is this simplicity that helps to draw the journaler inward, and appreciate what is special and unique in herself.