Chris Balme
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238 appearances
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first heard Mar 2023
last heard Mar 2023
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And then, you know, 20 years went by, and here we are.
And I've been a teacher, run a nonprofit working with middle school kids, and then started a middle school, and then of course finally wrote this book about.
those adventures and what I've learned about middle schoolers along the way.
No, I'm adding it to my list.
It's true, but that sounds like a good one.
I think the story is still so strong about how we think middle school is going to be.
I mean, I was at an event last night for elementary school for my kids and uh one of the speakers made the comment of enjoy elementary school because middle school is coming and it'll be the worst years of their life.
I was just thinking again, wow, talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We all hold this negative belief and then we make
it come true and it it does not have to be that way.
Yeah, thank you.
I mean, first thing I would say is from a neuroscience perspective that we know there are two peak times of brain growth in our whole lifespan.
And those are early childhood and early adolescence.
So roughly speaking, you know, zero to five and the middle through mid high school years.
So those are probably the hardest years to be a parent because of how much change is happening.
And I have kids on kind of both ends of that spectrum.
So I I see it in those different ways.
But they're also the most opportune years.
And the middle school years in particular, Maria Montessori, more than a hundred years ago, said, this is when the social individual is created.
And I think that observation has really been borne out in the research since then.
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