KellyDuMar's comments

Telling A Story With Your Shots

30 Nov 2007 04:55 AM

Michele, I love this article - very inspirational. As a parenting diarist, I'd love to share a recent article I posted on my www.diarydoor.typepad.com blog, When Pictures Speak - Writing Photo Inspired Poems and Stories - adding words to the pictures adds a creative element that also deepens the emotional experience of the process. Thanks, Kelly DuMar

Telling A Story With Your Shots

30 Nov 2007 04:54 AM

Michele, I love this article - very inspirational. As a parenting diarist, I'd love to share a recent article I posted on my www.diarydoor.typepad.com blog, When Pictures Speak - Writing Photo Inspired Poems and Stories - adding words to the pictures adds a creative element that also deepens the emotional experience of the process. Thanks, Kelly DuMar

Telling A Story With Your Shots

30 Nov 2007 04:54 AM

Michele, I love this article - very inspirational. As a parenting diarist, I'd love to share a recent article I posted on my www.diarydoor.typepad.com blog, When Pictures Speak - Writing Photo Inspired Poems and Stories - adding words to the pictures adds a creative element that also deepens the emotional experience of the process. Thanks, Kelly DuMar

Welcome to My Place at Scrapbook.com

30 Nov 2007 04:49 AM

Nicole, I recently posted an article on my Diarydoor website on writing Photo-Inspired Poems and stories that I think would be of interest to your readers. I'm a diarist, versus a scrapbooker, (I write diaries for my three children) but I think parenting diarists and scapbookers have a lot of creative inspiration to share! www.diarydoor.typepad.com. Thanks, Kelly

Sometimes Guidance Must be Subtle

06 Nov 2007 04:49 AM

Kori, I like your blog - it's sensible, creative and you share you parenting experience in a personal way that makes it easy to identify with your challenges.

I relate to your suggestions about guiding without bossing or manipulating. For me, I think of this as becoming the storyteller. It's from the storyteller role that I think I do my best parenting, advising or guiding. When I'm in my storyteller role, I can see the big picture, I can understand the different points of view, I can use my sense of humor and imagination, and I can present a complex issue and reach my kids on many different levels, conscious and unconscious. And, hopefully I can be enternainging as well!

Particularly when my kids were younger and all stirred up and emotional in a conflict they or we were experiencing, I found that telling a story, from my own childhood experience, or from something we'd experienced together previously, or about their grandparents, etc., allowed us to enter into a kind of trance that was relaxing and soothing.

When I'm in my storyteller role, I'm naturally non-judgmental and non-critical, and I think this is a voice all parents have within to call upon. I use this voice in the diaries I write to my children, but I also use it a lot when driving in the car - my captive audience.

Thanks for sharing on great parenting topics!