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26. A Conversation with Tween Girls

 Tess Connolly, LCSW talks with 3 tween girls about what it’s like to be a tween; their struggles, joys and how they cope with the stress of middle school. 

  • Tess talks about the similarities that came up between the girls and boys.
  • Tess talks about having intentional time together and how important it is for tweens.
  • The girls share with us about what they enjoy in life.
  • The girls talk about their struggles, those being keeping up with standards and the pressure they feel especially keeping up with beauty standards that being a girl brings. 
  • They talk about how they enjoy being carefree and can do what they like to a degree in their spare time and that they enjoy the fact that they now have more than one teacher at school and how they like this differentiation in middle school. 
  • They talk about how they cope with having to think about the way they look and the pressures that this brings at this age. 
  • They talk about what they would like parents to know about tweens these days. 
  • The girls share what makes them feel most connected within their families.
  • The girls discuss what they think their parents know about them and how their relationship is like between them and their parents. 
  • They are grateful that they can go to an amazing school that they go to and that they have an amazing family and have a roof over their head and the food that they have available to them. They are grateful for their friends and community and where they live.

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