Yeah, it helps that she has teachers who are willing to work with her on inference, etc., and we try to do at least a little of that at home too.
IMO a ton of novels with teens in them are exaggerated, both during our approximate childhood years and now.
*has flashbacks to Sweet Valley High, lol*
Yeah, I think you must be right that there's a lot of variation, even just based on these comments. My own middle school was, I think, fairly smack in the middle, except for that one popular nice girl, who seems to have been somewhat atypical.
I also get the feeling that "novels aimed towards boys" have a much smaller set of possibilities than "novels aimed towards girls," these days, in the social-emotional sense.
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Date: 2019-09-11 08:07 pm (UTC)IMO a ton of novels with teens in them are exaggerated, both during our approximate childhood years and now.
*has flashbacks to Sweet Valley High, lol*
Yeah, I think you must be right that there's a lot of variation, even just based on these comments. My own middle school was, I think, fairly smack in the middle, except for that one popular nice girl, who seems to have been somewhat atypical.
I also get the feeling that "novels aimed towards boys" have a much smaller set of possibilities than "novels aimed towards girls," these days, in the social-emotional sense.