Description A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up Kids to thrive.
She also provides therapy to children, teens and families in private practice..
She currently works full time as the School counselor for Sheridan School in Washington, D.
C.
She has worked in both public and private schools with students in grades K-12, focusing on Middle School for the last several years.
About the Author Phyllis Fagell is a licensed clinical professional counselor, a certified professional School counselor, and a journalist.
To answer parents\' most common questions and struggles with Middle school-aged children, Fagell combines her professional and personal expertise with stories and advice from prominent psychologists, doctors, parents, educators, School professionals, and Middle schoolers themselves.
Fagell helps Parents use the Middle School years as a low-stakes training ground to teach Kids the key Skills they\'ll Need to Thrive now and in the future, including making good friend choices, negotiating conflict, regulating their own emotions, be their own advocates, and more.
Though the transition from childhood to adolescence can be tough for kids, this time of rapid physical, intellectual, moral, social, and emotional change is a unique opportunity to proactively build character and confidence.
Based on her many years working in schools, professional counselor Phyllis Fagell sees these years instead as a critical stage that Parents can\'t afford to ignore (and though "Middle school" includes different grades in various regions, Fagell maintains that the ages make more of a difference than the setting).
Middle School is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it\'s either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases.
Description A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up Kids to thrive
