Publisher's Synopsis
How to Cope with those Middle School Years offers parents of soon-to-be middle school students a means of coping with the transition from the pleasantries of elementary school to the mind-morphing realities of middle school. In a "how to cope" collection of survival tips, retired middle school teacher Frank Tilton offers parents knowledge nuggets he has mined in his own years of parenting and middle school teaching. Parents, especially those of current fifth grade students, soon will be asking, "Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?" In How to Cope with those Middle School Years they will discover both the short and the long answers to that question. But first those parents must find ways to keep up with, get ahead of, and outwit their own Susies, Sams, Sarahs, or Seths. To do this, parents will need to know what to expect and what to do before, during, and after middle school. And they need to know these things before Susie knows them.
