In the Middle of It with Amy Kelly, The Ish Girl
By Amy Kelly: Passionate Mom, Avid Reader, Ish Girl
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Welcome to In the Middle of It!
Are you a middle school parent or teacher who longs to connect with your teens on a deeper level? Yearns to be there for them in their life-is-too-big moments? Wants to forge a connection that lets them know they are seen, heard, and loved? Is ready to show up as the grown-up they need?
Then you're in the right place! Join Amy Kelly (aka The Ish Girl) each week as she shares actionable stories and strategies to encourage and equip you on your journey.
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Best of: Empathy that Outweighs Fear - A Book Talk on A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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The Power of Stories We Read as Kids with Kristine Hall
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May 27, 2022 |
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Why Banning Books Harms Our Kids - A Call to Action with Kellye Abernathy and Emily Roberson
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May 06, 2022 |
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Stories Saved our Lives - with Kellye Abernathy and Emily Roberson
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Book Talk – The Aquamarine Surfboard with Kellye Abernathy
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Feeling All the Feelings - Helping Our Teens Regulate Their Own Emotions with Erica Wright
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Feeling All the Feels – Regulating Our Own Emotions to Help Our Teens with Erica Wright
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The Story of Repair – 4 Steps for After Arguing with Our Teens
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The Story of Repair – 3 Steps for When You're in the Heat of an Argument with Your Teen
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Fighting Fairly and Our Teens - 6 Questions to Ask About Arguing
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Best of: The Mental Health of Gen Z – A Book Talk About When We Collided by Emery Lord
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Art Journaling - How to Help Your Teens Capture Their Own Stories And Share Them With You
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Art Journaling – How Creativity Can Change Your Middle Schooler's Life
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Questioning the Outcome? How to Cope with Doubt as a Middle School Parent or Teacher
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Our Middle Schoolers Don't OWE US Respect
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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5 Keys for Talking to Your Middle Schoolers About School Shootings
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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The Roadmap to Independence for Our Middle Schoolers
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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10 Reasons to Give Middle Schoolers More Choices on the Road to Independence
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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The Best Way to Help Middle Schoolers Learn Independence? Managing Yourself First. Here's Why Questions are The Way to Do It.
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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The Road to Independence - 3 Keys to Determine Freedoms and Boundaries for Your Middle Schoolers
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Best of - Teens NEED Our Stories
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Best of - Want to Be an Intentional Parent? Here's What You Need to Know
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Best of: Frustrated with Your Teens? How Reframing Can Give You Your Calm Back
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Best of: 8 Ways to Break a Negative Cycle with Your Teens
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Getting Down to Business - Partnering with Your Teen in Real Life with Oie Dobier
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Ready to Explore Your Purpose? Why Middle School is the Best Time to Start the Journey
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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4 Life Skills Every Middle Schooler Needs - and How Exploring Their Future Can Build Them with Tamara S. Raymond
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Should Middle Schoolers Jump into Careering? Why You Want to Start Exploring with Them NOW with Tamara S. Raymond
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Ready for the Transition to Middle School? (I'm Talking to YOU, Parents!)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Best Of: Ready for Middle School? Letting Them Fail
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Ready for Middle School? 3 Anxiety-Busters for Your Kids
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Ready for Middle School? Set Your Child Up for Independence and Success
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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What to Read Next with Your Teen - 12 New YA Releases for Summer 2021
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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Best Of: Open-Ended Questions are Magical - How to Ditch Lecturing Your Teens
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Recognizing the Effects of the Pandemic on Our Teens
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Back to Normal? Not So Fast
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Journaling - The First Step in Helping Your Teens Grow Their Social-Emotional Skills
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Social Emotional Learning - How It Can Help Our Teens Reintegrate After COVID with Carolyn Gardner
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Grief and Loss in the Pandemic – How to Help Teens Navigate
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Pandemic Isolation - Showing Up for Our Teens When We've Got Nothing Left
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Book Talk - Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson
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May 28, 2021 |
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Anger Inside and Out - Leaning in When You're Mad at Your Teens
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May 14, 2021 |
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Does Being Hard on Yourself Affect Your Teens? Why Taming That Negative Self-Talk is Important
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May 07, 2021 |
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That Does It! 3 Keys for Moving Past Frustration with Your Teens So You Can Connect
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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What to Read with Your Teen Next
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Book vs. Movie - Moxie
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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BONUS: 3 Unexpected Lesson from an Unplanned Sabbatical
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Missing the Big Picture? How to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Paralyzed By Overwhelm? Here's Why You Need a North Star
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Dread the Drudgery? How to Move Beyond Your Tasks to Make an Impact
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Struggle with Being a People Pleaser? The Power of "NO"
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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The Impact of the Grownups We Remember - The Legacy of Great Teachers
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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The Grownups We Remember - The Far-Reaching Impact of Great Teachers
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Struggling with Parent Communication in Your Classroom? 5 Proactive Strategies
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Want More Engagement in Your Classroom? The One Thing That Will Make a Difference
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Chaos in Your Classroom? Why Systems and Procedures are Your Best Friend
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Stress in Your Classroom? How to Navigate Negative Teen Behavior
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Connection in Your Classroom: 5 Must-Have Ingredients
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Are You On the Team? 6 Ways to Show Up for Your Teens
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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The Messy Middle of It
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Beginning and Ending and Everything In the Middle of It
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Practicing Mindfulness with Our Teens - Zoom Busters Part 4
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Teen Stress and Anxiety - Zoom Busters Part 3
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Mind-Body Awareness - Zoom Busters Part 2
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Sit Up Straight! Zoom Busters Part 1
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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SONDER: What It Is and Why You (and Your Teen) Need It
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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BE Right or GET IT Right? 3 Mindset Strategies
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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The 4 Keys to Creating a Captivating Classroom
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Teaching from the Inside Out
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Creating an Ecosystem – 4 Strategies for a Positive Classroom
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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3 Keys to Find Your Footing and Start the School Year Strong
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Your Classroom in the Time of COVID - Prepping for an Unusual School Year
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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What to Read Next With Your Teen: 25 Books for Summer 2020
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Maximum Impact - 5 Keys for Parenting Your Teens with Intention
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Let Your Teens Fail – 5 Strategies to Stop Rescuing Them
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Open-Ended Questions are Magical: How to Ditch Lecturing Your Teens
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Want to Make a Difference in the World? Start with Your Teens
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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My Biggest Regrets with My Teens
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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How Can You Help Your Teens Walk Through the World Right Now?
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Teaching and Parenting Teens: It's Not About Managing Them - It's About Managing YOU
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May 29, 2020 |
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Developmentally Appropriate - 5 Ways to Show Up as the Grown Up
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May 22, 2020 |
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The Art of Parent-Teacher Communication
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May 15, 2020 |
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What Will Parent-Teacher Communication Look Like in a Post-Quarantine World?
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May 09, 2020 |
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Quarantine Crazy? 7 Strategies to Cope
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May 01, 2020 |
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Are you a Teacher or a Mentor? There's a Difference
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Learning Styles - What's Yours?
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Teachers Save the World
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Apr 11, 2020 |
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Looking for Something New to Read or Watch?
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Healthy Boundaries and Social Distancing? Not the Same Thing
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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YA Books in Classrooms
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Coronavirus and Your Teens
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Book Talk - Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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What to Read Next in Your Middle School Classroom – and Why It's So Important
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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To My Teens: I Can't Love You Any More, From: Your Teacher
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Solving Problems or Creating Opportunities? 5 Strategies for Those on The Front Lines with Teens
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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What to Read Next with Your Teens: 25+ Suggestions from My Own TBR Stack
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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You Belong with Me: 6 Ways to Make Teens Feel Part of Something Bigger Than Themselves
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Nov 02, 2019 |
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Arguments with Teens? How to Know What Matters - and What Doesn't
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Connection Questions - What to Ask Your Teens to Inspire Good Thinking
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Live Love to Give Love – 8 Keys to Inspire and Encourage Your Teens
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Middle School Teachers MUST Connect with Their Students – Here are 5 Reasons Why
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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7 Secrets Middle School Teachers Wish Parents Knew
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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5 Secrets Every Parent Wants Middle School Teachers to Know
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Struggling with The Thought Model? 6 Pitfalls to Avoid
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Self-Coaching - Simple Steps to Change Your Life (and Your Teens' Too!)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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First-Year Teaching in Middle School - A Conversation with Melissa Castillo - Part 2
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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First-Year Teaching in Middle School - A Conversation with Melissa Castillo - Part 1
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Aug 10, 2019 |
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There's Something About Sweetie
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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The Ish Girl Summer Book Club 2019
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Difficult Teen? Strategies to Break Through Bad Attitudes
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Parenting Teens - My 3 Best Takeaways
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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The Dish on Author Ally Carter - It's All About Gumption and Gravitas
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May 24, 2019 |
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The Dish on Author Ally Carter - It's All About Gumption and Gravitas
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May 24, 2019 |
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5 Ways to Remind Yourself You Don't Suck at Parenting - No Matter What Your Teen Says
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May 10, 2019 |
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Girls' Trip - How 3 Generations Connect Over Books
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Move Over Helicopters, There's a New Snowplow in Town
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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The Dish on Miranda Kenneally (Author Extraordinaire)
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Building Trust or Breaking It? 9 Questions for You and Your Teen
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Happy Birthday to the Podcast! 15 Best Takeaways From Our First Year
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Book Talk - A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Fight, Flight, or Freeze: From FREAKING OUT to Keeping CALM in Tough Moments with Teens
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Successful Parenting 101? There is No Such Thing
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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11 Essential Tips for Strong Parent-Teacher Relationships
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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32 Gifts for Teens Who Love Books
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Book vs. Movie - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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What's Developmentally Appropriate for Teens? Part 2 - Responding Rather Than Reacting in the Moment
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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What's Developmentally Appropriate for Teens? Flipping Your Frustration and Fear to Calm and Confidence
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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Book vs. Movie - The Hate U Give
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Letters to My Teenager
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Oct 21, 2018 |
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Book Talk - The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Correction Before Connection – Shift Your Mindset to Meet Your Teens Where They Are
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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Reach Out: Embracing Community When Life Gets Messy
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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Book Talk - Impostors by Scott Westerfeld
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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It Takes a Village - Building a Parenting Community
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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The Benefits of Self-Care – Taking Care of You, So You Can Connect with Your Teen
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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The Power of Stories: 6 Steps for Getting Your Teen to Listen – and Ask for More!
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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Teen Stress: 18 Dos and Don'ts as You Gear Up for the School Year
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Aug 04, 2018 |
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The CNP Summer Lit Club: Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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On the Roller Coaster of Parenting Teens? This One's for You!
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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Begin with the End in Mind: Preparing Your Teen for Adulting
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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The CNP Summer Lit Club: What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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7 Things to Know Before Watching 13 Reasons Why
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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Teens and Mental Health: A Look at When We Collided by Emery Lord
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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Stay Under Your Own Umbrella! Modeling Healthy Boundaries for Your Teen
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May 31, 2018 |
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Rock the House! And Other Summer Plans with Your Teen (Not the Fun Kind)
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May 25, 2018 |
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Snap Out of It! How to Break the Negative Cycle in Your Parent-Teen Relationship
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May 18, 2018 |
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How to Field Your Teen's Hard Questions Like a Pro
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May 11, 2018 |
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The Impact of We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
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May 05, 2018 |
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How to Rock a Teen Book Festival: 7 Survival Tips
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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Critical Inner Voice? Here's How to Fix It (and Your Teen's Too!) Part 2
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Critical Inner Voice? Here's How to Fix It (and Your Teen's Too) Part 1
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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The Price of Right: 6 Strategies to Avoid Stupid Arguments with Your Teen
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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Book vs. Movie - Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Confessions from an ISH Mom: 5 Tips to Survive Your Teen's Phases
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Do You Really Know Your Teen? 5 Lifehacks to Keep Up (without whiplash!)
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Book vs. Movie - A Wrinkle in Time
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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The Subtle Art of (Not) Telling Your Teen What to Read
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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Book Talk - The Thousandth Floor
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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Skeptical About Reading Young Adult Books?
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Feb 16, 2018 |