Kids Journal
The In-Between
A Journal for Kids Who Are Almost Teenagers and Not Quite Anything Yet
This journal names who you are right now — not last year, not who you are becoming, but today.
For tweens ages 12-14 navigating identity, belonging, and the slow realization that adults do not have it figured out either.
The Name It First Experience
You are not a kid anymore and you are not a teenager yet — and nobody has a great word for what you actually are right now. The In-Between gives tweens ages 12 to 14 a journal for naming the specific experience of being in the middle — who you are, who you are realizing you are not, what you are figuring out about the adults around you, what belonging looks like from where you are standing — without asking you to have it figured out or perform a version of yourself you have not gotten to yet. This journal is for the person who is almost something and not quite anything — and who needs a place to name what that is like before it is already over. A Journal for Kids Who Are Almost Teenagers and Not Quite Anything Yet is the place to put what is happening right now.
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Sample questions
- Who are you right now — not who you were last year and not who you are becoming?
- What has changed for you recently that feels hard to explain to people who knew you before?
- What makes you happy right now that has nothing to do with who everyone else thinks you are?
Research basis
Grounded in Erikson (1968) identity formation in adolescence / Marcia (1966) identity statuses in early adolescence / belonging and peer identity research in tween developmental stage (Brown, 1990).
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