Last year, dd8 was ardent in scribbling in her journal. I was agog and delighted that she had caught the writing bug. I was also relieved that I wouldn’t have to arduously concoct ways and means to motivate her to write. She was all set, thought I, and I could lean back and relax.
Sigh.
This year, dd8 refuses to pen anything into her journals, now tucked away in remote corners of our dust- smothered house. My appeals to recover the journalling-mania of that bygone year, are greeted with groans aplenty. What went wrong? I ask.
Dd8 has suddenly, though, been overtaken by what I call, logic-craze. She beams ever so brightly when it comes to time for logic puzzles and gravitates towards strategy games in the bookstore. All of a sudden, she’s into factual writing where she arranges her (book ) summaries into main ideas and supporting details.
“Tell me about the the Chapters 3 and 4 .”
“Nothing much happened. …” and she rattles of the bare skeleton of two chapters of Black Beauty in 2 sentences.
What happened to elaboration and descriptive details?
Perhaps dd8′s going through a phase of discovery and learning. I’d like to think so. I’m excited that she’s thrilled with facts and organization and classification of information. But I do hope she regains that love of expressing herself by journalling. I won’t be biting my nails over it though.
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