
Middle School Matters
The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond - and How Parents Can Help
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Lauren McCullough
About this listen
A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase - and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive.
Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases. Based on her many years working in schools, professional counselor Phyllis Fagell sees these years instead as a critical stage that parents can't afford to ignore (and though "middle school" includes different grades in various regions, Fagell maintains that the ages make more of a difference than the setting). Though the transition from childhood to adolescence can be tough for kids, this time of rapid physical, intellectual, moral, social, and emotional change is a unique opportunity to proactively build character and confidence.
Fagell helps parents use the middle school years as a low-stakes training ground to teach kids the key skills they'll need to thrive now and in the future, including making good friend choices, negotiating conflict, regulating their own emotions, be their own advocates, and more. To answer parents' most common questions and struggles with middle school-aged children, Fagell combines her professional and personal expertise with stories and advice from prominent psychologists, doctors, parents, educators, school professionals, and middle schoolers themselves.
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Critic reviews
"I love, love Middle School Matters! Phyllis Fagell has done a stupendous job! Middle School Matters gives parents of middle school boys and girls an essential guide to walk alongside their children as they go through middle school. The book is filled with just the right combination of research and common sense strategies that only a middle school counselor in the trenches could deliver. With this book, parents don't need to dread the middle school years. Instead they can be prepared and informed so they can do best by their kids. I wish I had had this book when my boys were in middle school!" (Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes and founder of Cultures of Dignity)
"As a lifelong educator and the parent of two teens and a tween, I cannot recommend this book enough! I just wish Middle School Matters had been written when I was a superintendent and led a middle school transformation effort, as the ideas, advice and practical guidance are invaluable. Phyllis Fagell has done us all a great service by breaking down the middle school years into easily-understood concepts that parents and educators can use to work with early adolescents in any setting. Phyllis presents simple strategies and approaches to help students - and adults - navigate an amazingly complex and exciting time in their lives. I highly encourage teachers, principals, parents, policy makers and anyone interested in using the middle school years to lay the foundation for success in the teenage years and beyond to read and apply the lessons of this book now!" (Joshua P. Starr, EdD, chief executive officer, PDK International)
"Middle School does matter! And, parents matter during these years...as much as you ever have, maybe more. As young people strive to answer, 'Who am I?' they need you to stand solidly in their corner reminding them that they are perfect just as they are. Phyllis Fagell has created a masterpiece here - an actionable guide filled with the skill-sets you'll need to support your child through these critical life-shaping years." (Ken Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, author of Raising Kids to Thrive and Building Resilience in Children and Teens, www.parentandteen.com)
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- By: Amy Eliza Wong
- Narrated by: Amy Eliza Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Many people from all walks of life, even after their many accomplishments and experiences, are often plagued by feelings of dissatisfaction and deep questioning. These feelings may lead them to wonder if the life they are living is the life they were meant to lead. Living on Purpose is the guidebook these people have been waiting for. Written by transformational leadership coach Amy Wong, this book will help shift listeners to a mindset of possibility and freedom, showing them how to feel more connected to the people around them and truly satisfied by the lives they lead.
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Excellent book
- By J333 on 04-16-25
By: Amy Eliza Wong
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The Manual to Middle School
- The “Do This, Not That” Survival Guide for Guys
- By: Jonathan Catherman, Reed Catherman - contributor, Cole Catherman - contributor
- Narrated by: Mike Carnes
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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The move from elementary school to middle school can be difficult for boys. Many new to middle school guys find themselves struggling with grades, behavior, and relationships with family, friends, and teachers. Boys often grow frustrated and embarrassed as they strain to figure out what to do and what not to do in their new world...called middle school. Best-selling author Jonathan Catherman and his two sons (one current and one former middle schooler) offer boys ages 10 to 12 the practical help they need to make the move to middle school as painless as possible.
By: Jonathan Catherman, and others
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What Do You Really Want?
- 7 Questions That Can Unlock the Answers to a Life Full of Abundance, Meaning, and Connection
- By: Cayla Craft
- Narrated by: Cayla Craft, Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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We all want to experience great joy, peace, and love in our lives. We all want to find our true purpose and live an abundant life. But to do that, we have to first ask ourselves a few questions and get to know someone who we might be unconsciously allowing to drive our lives: our younger selves.
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God
- By Anonymous User on 08-20-24
By: Cayla Craft
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The Art of Fear
- Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to Do Instead
- By: Kristen Ulmer
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit? This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer's remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear. Once recognized as the best extreme skier in the world (an honor she held for 12 years), Ulmer knows fear well. In this conversation-changing audiobook, she argues that fear is not here to cause us problems.
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Lacks efficacy and contradicts herself...hard no!
- By Julie Collins on 10-08-22
By: Kristen Ulmer
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Lean Out
- The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
- By: Marissa Orr
- Narrated by: Misty Wells
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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More than 50 years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the wage gap still hovers at 80 percent, and only five percent of CEOs in the Fortune 500 are women. Today, rising up the ranks in many companies still often means cutthroat, win-at-all-costs tactics, where being the loudest voice in the room is more important than being the person with the best ideas for moving the company forward. Not surprisingly, most women don’t want to play this game.
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Couldn’t finish it
- By LS on 12-18-19
By: Marissa Orr
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Discover Your Dharma
- A Vedic Guide to Finding Your Purpose
- By: Sahara Rose, Deepak Chopra
- Narrated by: Sahara Rose, Deepak Chopra
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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This lifetime is about figuring out what your dharma is. When you say yes to your higher calling, everything you've been seeking naturally manifests. This book will guide you through the journey and lead you to a life of happiness, abundance, joyful service, and fulfillment. In Discover Your Dharma, best-selling Ayurvedic author and Highest Self Podcast host Sahara Rose shares her unique approach to discovering your dharma through the Doshas (the Ayurvedic mind-body types) and the chakras (energy centers of the body).
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Inspiring but lacking in knowledge
- By Daniel Schlaug on 06-06-21
By: Sahara Rose, and others
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Right Within
- How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
- By: Minda Harts
- Narrated by: Minda Harts
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from racialized trauma, and find relief from invisible workplace burdens. Filled with Minda Harts’ signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past triggers they may not even know still cause pain, and reframe past career disappointments as opportunities to grow into a new path.
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A delivery from the delivered
- By Tasha Robinson- White on 12-01-23
By: Minda Harts
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The Survivors
- A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing
- By: Adam Frankel
- Narrated by: Adam Frankel, Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Adam Frankel’s maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered crossed generational lines - a fact most apparent in the mental health of Adam’s mother. When Adam sat down with her to examine their family history in detail, he learned another shocking secret, this time one that unraveled Adam’s entire understanding of who he is.
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Amazing story
- By Alissa on 12-26-19
By: Adam Frankel
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Emotional Inheritance
- A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
- By: Galit Atlas
- Narrated by: Galit Atlas
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have, and haunt us like ghosts.
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Underwhelmed
- By (((((((0))))))) on 05-12-22
By: Galit Atlas
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Under Pressure
- Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
- By: Lisa Damour Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Lisa Damour Ph.D.
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of Untangled presents an urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college.
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Everyone should read/listen to this book.
- By Amazon Customer on 03-10-19
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Spark
- The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- By: John J. Ratey MD, Eric Hagerman - contributor
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In Spark, John J. Ratey, MD, embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's.
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I wish to give it 5 stars but…
- By Anonymous User on 06-24-22
By: John J. Ratey MD, and others
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And Then They Stopped Talking to Me
- Making Sense of Middle School
- By: Judith Warner
- Narrated by: Judith Warner
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches, a New York Times best-selling author reveals why these years are so painful, how parents unwittingly make them worse, and what we all need to do to grow up.
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Pointless: author offers no advice or insight.
- By Valerie Thorp on 12-07-20
By: Judith Warner
Great resource for teen parents.
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Extremely Insightful
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Excellent resource
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Informative
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Eye-opening
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So practical
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Every sentence is a nugget
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Covered lots of aspects with no helpful tips
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Judgmental and redundant
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