These Are the 8 Things Every Middle School Teacher Wants Parents to Know Before School Starts

Through the middle school years bodies are changing, feelings are happening, and phones are wanted. If you avoid talking about things like puberty or having a phone, you might make things more difficult for your child in school during these awkward years. Lay it all out on the table and try to help them to realize that one day they’ll look back and say, “It was only middle school” — after all, can’t you look back through your seventh grade yearbook and say the same with a sigh of relief?