Oct 07
Their entry in middle school is an important stage, do we have to see there the beginning of autonomy of our children?
Posted by Al. Weaver on Tuesday Oct 7, 2008 Under Adolescent Psychology
By arriving at middle school, children lose a unique, close teacher, comparable to parents. This reference teacher is missing in middle school. It is a moment when we ask the adolescents to be autonomous while they are still very dependent finally. At the beginning of the 6th grade, in my opinion, every teacher should take care of four teenagers to restore this privileged link, reinstating affection in the educational link. I believe that it would be necessary to eliminate educational neutrality. Albert Camus would, without doubt, never have become Albert Camus without the determining influence of Mister Germain, his elementary school teacher, had on his school years.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:13 am
I have a daughter in middle school. She just turned 12 and every bit on the younger side of 12, although mature in her personality. This is not the case across her class with groups starting, opposite sex and now instant messaging.
Having two older children, my reaction is to get more into the daily routine of my 12 year old. There are too too many influences at this age that can lead them down wrong albeit experimental paths. Whether it is a view of websites or a puff on a joint, it’s all there and those that think it is not are blind to the realities of today.
With my teenager, he was easily 4-5 years ahead of my experience. Parents, what you were exposed to in college are now available to 8 graders, that’s middle school.
My biggest problem is that middle school sometimes, puts 8th graders in the same “school social mixer” as 6th graders.
Call me old fashion or paranoid, I’ll accept either label, but my antenna is finely tuned, which is my contribution to this post. Tune into issues at 6th grade that you may have thought were a few years off.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am
You are absolutely right, Albert, and you are certainly not old fashioned or paranoid, you are just aware of how society, medias and internet have evolve at a point where our brains are being flooded with hundred’s of messages per day and this phenomenon is certainly not sparing our children. We certainly cannot deny the fact that our kids are much more ahead than we were at their age. Our generation’s “bad influence” was limited to have a smoke in the toilet or a beer. But there is a good side in this evolution, it makes our children more aware of all the risks that exist around them, information is being spread in a more effective way and so they are more “equipped” to deal with outside threats.
Nevertheless I couldn’t agree more with your fear of this “school social mixer”. If the 6th graders, are so much more mature, imagine the 8th graders, and 6th graders are still in a very impressionable age.