Overview
āAs the parent of a middle schooler, I felt as if Judith Warner had peered into my lifeāand the lives of many of my patients. This is a gift to our kids and their future selves.āāLori Gottlieb, author ofĀ Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between elementary school and high school: lāĆ¢ge ingrat, or āthe ugly age.ā Characterized by a perfect storm of developmental changesāphysical, psychological, and socialāthe middle school years are a time of great distress for children and parents alike, marked by hurt, isolation, exclusion, competition, anxiety, and often outright cruelty. Some of this is inevitable; there are intrinsic challenges to early adolescence. But these years are harder than they need to be, and Judith Warner believes that adults are complicit.
With deep insight and compassion, Warner walks us through a new understanding of the role that middle school plays in all our lives. She argues that todayās helicopter parents are overly concerned with status and achievementāin some ways a residual effect of their own middle school experiencesāand that this worsens the self-consciousness, self-absorption, and social āsortingā so typical of early adolescence.Ā
Tracing a century of research on middle childhood and bringing together the voices of social scientists, psychologists, educators, and parents, Warnerās book shows how adults can be moral role models for children, making them more empathetic, caring, and resilient. She encourages us to start treating middle schoolers as the complex people they are, holding them to high standards of kindness, and helping them see one another as more than ājocks and mean girls, nerds and sluts.ā
Part cultural critique and part call to action, this essential book unpacks one of lifeās most formative periods and shows how we can help our children not only survive it but thrive.
This book title, And Then They Stopped Talking to Me (Making Sense of Middle School) - 9781101905890, ISBN: 9781101905890, by Judith Warner, published by Crown (March 9, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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