How to help a kid who hates middle school
Middle school days feel overwhelmingly long and exhausting for kids who are burnt out or miserable. Because attendance is mandatory, parents struggle to help them cope when they lack connection with peers outside of school.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1grabbing pizza when he gets picked up
- 2spend more time watching movies together
- 3let him have time to decompress and talk to friends on the phone for a little while
- 4play video games
- 5find other organizations religious or non religious where your child might be interested in making connections
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
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