for parents of new middle schoolers--

The single most useful piece of advice I've ever read as a parent of a middle school child:

Andromeda on organization and the middle school child.

Also, 3 years ago a lot of us wrote posts and comments about books and products that had helped our kids deal with middle school.

(fyi: the old site is broken. Can't be edited. That's why the links are slowly deteriorating with no one to fix them...I have no idea what to do about it other than get rich enough to hire someone to copy all the source code and then take the whole thing down.)


posts on middle school & organization:

• mom gets wake-up call at end of school year
  
• accordion files for middle school students
• Donna Goldberg on students' sense of time
• Donna Goldberg's web site
  
• the 3 simple building blocks of success (How to Double Your Child's Grades in School)
• an approach to reading that really works (part one) (How to Double...)
  
• an approach to reading that really works (part two) (How to Double...)
  

my two favorite middle school books:

• The Organized Student by Donna Goldberg
  
• How to Double Your Child's Grades in School by Eugene Schwartz
  

if you decide to go the expanding file route...

The Globe-Weis Fabric Poly Expanding File is amazingly sturdy.