Future Changes In Middle School

In middle school students go through a lot of change. Kids may already be thinking about their future and where they want to go to college. They will be going through puberty and a lot of situations where they do not know if they can make it out by themselves. They find social media and start learning about how it is to get ready for high school. Their minds will grow, emotions and physical looks change, and their friends will always change.

Between the ages of 6 and 11 your memory continues to grow and develop (Turben.com). Kids will be able to memorize vocabulary words a lot easier and remember information needed for classes and everything ahead of them. Though, until the age of 7 years old, the child’s brain is not going to fully remember

things such as: symbols in speech, gestures, and mental pictures (Turben.com). Mental development grows with age. Being able to use rules and concepts increases between the ages of 7 and 11 and the thinking is not usually based off of abstract thinking, but on concrete thinking (Turben.com).
Growing up and having your physical characteristics change can really affect the way you look at things. During middle school kids hit puberty. Kids hit growth sprouts, their attitude changes, they gain more weight from muscle. Both genders should be hitting puberty before the ages of 13 and 14 years old (HealthyChildren.org). During this time it could be very confusing for the kid. Talking to the kids and helping them can make it seem a lot better and easier to them knowing that someone is there for them.
During puberty kids will start thinking more in depth about who they are and what they look like.

In middle school kids start hanging out more with their friends more than their family and they either start getting more socially active or they isolate themselves. Kids will start paying attention more to the people around them and they also start realising where they fit in and what they should stay away from (psychology.about.com). The kids will also want to start making their own decisions and might become rebellious toward their parents (amle.org). Kids will start to understand about the rights and wrongs in middle school and they will also start keeping secrets and certain things to themselves. Peer pressure will also start affecting the way the kid does things and how they look at certain things.

Kids emotions will start to fluctuate and become more like a roller coaster and along the way one may get sick. kids will get more emotionally sensitive and will pay close attention to what people say about their appearance (ParentFurther.com). Kids will start taking more risk and start talking more violently and saying things that they will regret. Sometimes the students will get very angry and isolate themselves from everyone and it’s very hard to get an emotionally changing kid to simmer

down.
Motivating a kid that’s going through a lot of changes is really hard and sometimes it doesn’t always help. Sometimes a kid will need their space, but then there’s a kid that will need help and need someone to be there by their side to help through the changes and difficulties they are facing. Kids may not always understand what is going on in their life and some things may be very confusing to them and they may not know what to do. Your kid may be mad at you right now, but they could be going through a lot of emotional, physical, mental or social changes and development.