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In a message dated 12/14/2002 10:03:16 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes: (Sandra)


> If people never keep journals or re-read their old letters, it's harder for
> them to have a good perspective on their own progress

I would like to see my progress more clearly (sometimes at all) but the times
I have written in a journal going back and reading any of it has been more
like a jungle of emotion so much so that I don't want to go back and read it.
Maybe I am not journaling right. But that sounds like it shouldn't be
possible kinda like asking a stupid question.

Renee








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Fetteroll

on 12/15/02 3:18 AM, Petra1128b@... at Petra1128b@... wrote:

> Maybe I am not journaling right. But that sounds like it shouldn't be
> possible kinda like asking a stupid question.

Well it depends what your goal is in journaling. If your goal is to go back
and be able to see progress then the way you're doing it isn't meeting your
needs.

But if your goal is to release some emotions onto paper and you do feel
better when you're done, then you're meeting your goal.

School is about doing things *the* right way. Real life is about whether
what we're doing works or not.

Joyce

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In a message dated 12/15/02 9:24:39 AM, fetteroll@... writes:

<< > Maybe I am not journaling right. But that sounds like it shouldn't be
> possible kinda like asking a stupid question.
>>

I wasn't talking about journaling so much as suggesting that a strong,
opinionated early post to this list should be saved for a couple of years and
looked at again, because the writer would feel differently about it then.

The answer was "no."

That doesn't hurt me; it hurts the person unwilling to keep a sample of early
thought and work for comparison after she has a few years' experience, and
older kids, and can look back to see how far she's come.

Posts on list like this can become "journalling" when we're talking about
what our kids did yesterday. I've lifted several posts and put them in my
diary whole as a record of a day. But the way I word things, and my ideas
about why something happened and the effect it might have are MY thoughts,
not my childrens' final uses of those experiences. So years later I look at
things like that and think "Huh! I wasn't as confident then," or "I still saw
that as worthy of attention because it's a school thing," or whatever.

Sandra