The Mind of a Tween Girl

I'm making note to come back here and read all these daughter blogs...wheeee:)But just had to say yippee to the moms who are encouraging that expression....i taught middle school for 8 years and there's a huge need to encourage girls' to own their voices..doesn't matter even what they choose to write about....not really...just that they can....:)but you know this b/c you're their mommas:) teaching them to fire their internal editor bitch? that's another thing entirely but it never hurts to start early :)

Tre~

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My daughter is now 13yo, but she's been posting on her blog for over two years.  Her writing isn't nearly as legible as your entries, but it's interesting to see what she's thinking and how her writing is developing.  She blogs as Elferkid on http://elferkid.com.

My daughter's would be something more along the lines of "I'm so bored, off school for 2 weeks, nothing to do, need someone to text me".

Hmmm I think I may have her go write something up right now.

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I love this post of your "daughter's" journal! My blog is similar except my daughters are actually writing their parts. (even scarier) I figure the world needs another blog like a hole in the head. (Something my mother used to say..well not the blog part, but definitely the hole in the head part). But, here's the thing. In the 90s, I had two parenting books published. You've never heard of me so you can see how well they sold. I had a great agent who somehow managed to sell both of those despite the poor sales of the first one. Then I stopped writing books because I didn't have anything else to say. Now, I think I have something. Or, rather, I think that together my three grown daughters and I can share something worthwhile, entertaining and maybe even helpful. The idea is that I'll write about the strategies used in raising them and they'll tell us how it all worked out. It'll be a lot like reading their journals. And, believe me, I've already learned quite a bit about what was really going on when they grew up. It should be terrific read, but my great agent (now retired but she's coaching me) says that these days, one needs a "platform" before one gets published. It was so much easier when all one needed was a connected agent who had big clients and lots of influence. So, blogs are us. (please look at mine at http://raisingamazingdaughters.wordpress.com and if you and everyone you've ever met in your life hits it every day, by 2031, I should have enough of a following to attract a publisher. Of course, I'll be in a "home" by then and unlikely to still be able to type but I'll worry about that later.

why not ask her to write a journal entry and post it.

why guess at what she'd say?

i love the humor and insight of what you did offer.

and for all i know she was sitting with you as you imagined it.

but this nudged me.

when teaching 6th graders the girls used to freeze up during journaling. i mean frozen. looking at me like....

i finally did the unthinkable and made it so i did writing in groups and sshh :) we had an all girls group. needed to. they didn't think they had anything worthy of saying. not true.

ive never forgotten that insight b/c it's not just girls..obviously. how many women  do we each know, including ourselves that sometimes struggle w/ worthiness of having anything of substance to say.

so just a thought. would be awesome to hear her version...her real version. :)
value your creativity, humor, insight and wit and you clearly know your daughter beautifully...

excited for whatever you decide to next post :)

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I loved this, Mir. I don't know if I could do this with either of my children. Plus mine are older. Imagining writing their journals might terrify me.

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Your daughter got braces right before Christmas, she's totally allowed to say HELL HELL HELL HELL DAMMIT, I think, maybe even outloud, once.

Because when my dentist called me to fix something he did wrong and wanted me to come in TOMORROW, I said "Oh hell no" before my brain even caught up with my mouth. Nothing will come between me and my over-eating, thank you.

This could be my daughter's journal too, she's also 11 and calls her little brother Monkey, who, if you ask her ruins everything.

Now, quit ruining her life already, gosh mom!