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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that there are a lot of disregulated parents out there. Recently attended a middle school meeting and the questions being asked by people in their 40s and 50s was astounding. ‘How will my child know which classroom to go to on their own?’ ‘How will they know how to open a locker combination?’ No idea how they have made it this far in the world on their own, let alone parenting. No wonder their kids are anxious. [/quote]

These are normal questions that parents of new middle school kids have been asking for decades. Yes it seems silly from the outside -- of course these kids will figure it out. But parents have always worried over transition years for their kids and the transition from elementary to middle is often one of the harder ones for parents because puberty is the hardest maturity shift for parents to accept in kids. It's generally not that hard to imagine your 4 year old being a 5 year old doing kindergarten things even though it can be bittersweet -- it's not that different. But the difference between a 5th grader and a 6th grader is jarring and parents often struggle with that shift -- a 10 year old seems like a little kid a lot of the time. A 12 yr old is practically a teen. A lot happens very fast.

Treating this kind of parental anxiety as problematic or out of the ordinary ignores the fact that parents have always worried over kids this age. Normal.[/quote]

Completely disagree. Sure, parents have always cared about middle school transition but previous generations of parents didn’t have two and three meetings at school ahead of the school year. There might have been a back to school night. That’s it. Obsessing over every single thing your child needs to do and learn as they grow is not healthy. [/quote]

Why is the school having three meetings then. How is that parents fault. Just have fewer meetings. Answer the questions and reassure parents. That's what schools did before -- why did it change.

Parents didn't magically become more anxious as a group on their own. They are responding to outside stimuli.[/quote]

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