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Is Parenting Middle-School Kids the Hardest?

by Aileen McDonough

I’m a parent, in addition to being a writer, so I often write about parenting. I recently published an article for Medium! The article was inspired by an article I read in NPR, which posited that the tween years are the toughest time of parenting. I wasn’t sure if I agreed–my tweens are pretty cool. (And no, I do not for one moment take their relative coolness for granted.)

You can baby proof your house against burnt fingers and bumped heads, but you can’t child-proof the world against all the things your kids will run up against as their worlds get wider: peer pressure, drugs, sex. This is why I am now in a book club…

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Tween parents will get it. However, if you’re still new to the parenting game, you’ll get it, too…sooner than you think.

As I’ve gotten older and more experienced and confident at child care, I’ve started to run out of fucks, which is an added benefit to tween parenting. Are my kids wearing clothes that match today? I don’t know, they dressed themselves.

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What are your thoughts? Do tween parents have it the hardest? Or, rather, are we basking in the glow of the golden age of parenting? (No more diapers, no more spit up, and the kids aren’t full-on teenagers with attitude yet–how can you beat that?)

The choices I faced when my kids were tiny seem easier now that they are behind me. They seem easier in the way that first grade seems “easy” to a high schooler, but is not at all easy to a first grader.

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Give it a read and share your opinion! And if you’re a parent navigating the dreaded teen years, feel free to share tips–we tween parents are all ears.

 

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