Chris Balme

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 321: Chris Balme on How Parents Can Navigate the Tricky Middle School Years · 7 Mar 2023 podcast

And then middle school, all of a sudden, it's like the this creeping fear coming down from college, perhaps.

So this this Essential Experiences project is intended to be.

Kind of an antidote to that.

And it comes from having interviewed now hundreds of people and just saying, asking, what is the most positive, lasting memory you have from your middle school years?

And we compiled all those answers and created kind of 50 experiences that we just heard again and again.

And it's everything from that's when I started keeping a journal.

And I've kept a journal ever since.

to I started a business when I was in middle school and it got me excited and now I'm an entrepreneur.

Or, you know, I became friends with my uncle who was eighty years old or all of these different experiences and

The idea of it is kind of to ask, what if that was the curriculum of middle school?

We put them in categories.

They range from things like how you develop more awareness of your identity to realizing what you can do in the world.

So it's intended to be playful, add to the list, take away from the list, challenge each other with it.

It's probably not best used by a parent telling a child to do one of these items.

But I've seen it used really well, you know, in groups, in advisories at schools, and after school.

Aftercare settings, just a way to remember what's really important and not get lost in the the math worksheets.

Not to pick on math, but you know what I mean.

Exactly.

I I think memory is a really good gatekeeper that we we forget a lot of what happens in middle school classes in particular.

Ask someone to tell you about their sixth grade English class and it it might be a stretch.

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