Middle School Sucks: A Guide to Finding Compassion For Adolescents: Recent Episodes
Julia Melito
Ever wondered how to productively deal with the trials and tribulations of middle school life? In this podcast, Julia weaves heartfelt advice and tools with personal tales from her life as a middle schooler in the 2000s and her experience working with middle schoolers.
Julia interviews a recent middle school graduate about topics related to activism and finding your voice! This will be the final episode of Middle School Sucks as the creator focuses on another middle school-related project. Please contact the podcast creator on Instagram @middleschoolsuckspod if you would like more content! Thank you for your support!
Please check out @middleschoolsuckspod on Instagram for the anti-racism resources outlined in the first minute of this episode! In this episode, Julia talks with a rising 10th grader about his middle school experience. They discuss exploring your identity, making friendship connections, making mistakes, and much more. Enjoy!
In this episode, Julia talks with Rosetta, a 7th grade student! They discuss many topics, including creative arts in middle school, lunchtime, clubs, creating a caring school community, and much more.
How can we celebrate middle school graduation during the time of coronavirus? How can we make peace with this? In this episode, Julia discusses practical tools that answer each of these questions and ends with a guided meditation for 8th grade students.
Julia discusses the positive aspects of distance learning for middle schoolers. She also discusses two recent New York Times articles related to distance learning and the public perception of adolescents. She ends with advice for teachers, parents, and students in dealing with the struggles of distance learning. Thank you, Veronique Mintz and Judith Warner, for your incredible articles!
In this episode, Julia discusses the negative aspects of distance learning while also providing useful tips and tools for parents, educators, and middle schoolers on how to deal with these negative aspects. She ends the episode with a grounding meditation. We are in this together!
In the debut episode of Middle School Sucks, Julia gives an overview of the experience of entering middle school for the first time. She also provides middle schoolers, educators, and parents with useful tools to manage first day anxiety and shyness.