Middle School Love

So...today was Valentine's Day. In Middle School.  It is quite a social experiment and observance of human growth and development.

Regardless if the students are in 6th grade, 7th grade, or 8th grade...there is a massive range in which each student celebrates the day.

I see 6th grade boys giving 6th grade girls big Teddy Bears and hugging.  I see 8th grade boys or girls giving friends lollipops.

There is no true linear sense of development. Some 6th graders are ready for dating...apparently. Some 8th graders are not yet ready to be interested in the opposite sex.

But for all...friendship and caring for each other creeped through the halls like a pink fog with hearts.

Middle School maturity is amazing.  Only in Middle School.

I would not teach any other grade level.

And tomorrow...it will be business as usual as if today didn't exist. That of course if with the exception of the 79 boys that asked girls to go out with them today and we turned down.  Tomorrow might feel a little bit different.

Be Mindful.

Peace.

Mark Levine

#Mindfulliteracy
@LevineWrites