Middle School Makeover | Michelle Icard’s Guide to Navigating the Tween Years – Michelle Icard | Expert Guidance on Parenting Tweens & Teens

Middle School Makeover: Improving The Way You and Your Child Experience the Middle School Years (Routledge, 2014)

Middle School Makeover pairs reliable scientific research about adolescent development with Michelle Icard’s personal, extensive experience working with middle-school-aged kids and their parents to offers concrete and practical advice for helping tweens through the socially fraught world of middle school. It’s the primer for the social and emotional changes parents and kids navigate when mid-life meets middle school under one roof.

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“Affirming, spot-on advice for guiding kids through the difficult middle school years, blending practicality, and gentle humor.”

Publishers Weekly

starred review

“Was middle school bad enough when you were going through it? Is facing middle school again through your child’s experience giving you pause and anxiety? Worry no more. Michelle Icard has done an incredible job of offering parents not just the empathy they seek but the strategies they need to navigate their child’s middle school year with wisdom, grace, and foresight. Icard so deftly blends storytelling, research, and guidance, you’ll feel like you are having lunch with that smart, compassionate friend who never lets you feel defeated. Middle School Makeover will empower you to capably and calmly parent through the hard times and inspire you to celebrate through them, too.”

Rosie Molinary

author of Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance