While researching online today I came across this blog entry by Steve Pavlina. In general the entry is about the three benefits Steve sees in journal writing, but do keep reading beyond that first section.
Steve goes on to share a portion of an old diary entry. He then spends time going through how much rereading this portion helped him where he is right now. He gets a chance to show which of his goals reached fruition, which didn’t and how he felt about that, and to see where his dreams and ideas for that time of his life have played …read more

I’ve done a bit more searching for some journal prompts for children. Hopefully these will be useful to you and/or your children.
Hallmark has an interesting article with journal writing ideas for kids.
Scholastic offers a Descriptive writing workshop online which would work well for journal writing.
About.com has an article on Journal Writing in the Classroom.
Free worksheets to print out for journal writing every day of the year.
Something for you to read on the benefits of journal writing for kids.
Please share any other good links and prompts to journal writing for kids you may know of in the comments …read more