I’m a 14-year-old geek gal, and I was pretty badly teased in sixth grade as well. In seventh grade, I learned sarcasm was the best way to fight this kind of stuff off. If people look absurd when they make fun of you, then they won’t bother. Middle school sucks, because everyone’s going through puberty, and emotions run high, and all of a sudden you have to worry about schedules, and being late, and different teachers with different homework and different agendas. Everyone’s freaking out, so, naturally, they all start picking on each other, which is really, really stupid.

Anyway, I skipped eighth grade, and I’m in high school now. The middle school teachers make a big flippin’ deal about high school, but it’s not much different from seventh grade, except people are a little calmer. The work isn’t any harder than middle-school work, really.

Once you find someone who understands the reference in the phrase “The cake is a lie,” then you’ve found a new best friend. If you don’t understand it, you need to play Portal, because Portal is a very awesome game. You can get it on Steam.

Also, for stress relief, you should learn how to shoot something. I recommend the bow and arrow, or an air soft gun. Or karate. Personally, I do all three, but that’s me.

Ciao,
Rebekah

This is Beth,
I appreciate the time you have taken to respond!!We are close to our children and have tried to give them every learning opportunity we can. Our daughter has always been bright and done well at school, it is only when she moved up to secondary school that problems arose.
She has got good friends at her dancing class and is close to her brother. She has now formed friendships with a girl in her class and keeps in touch with a friend she knew from church when she was younger.
She is a confident person and deals with the problems at school well. I know if she wasn’t so confident things would be so much harder. Her response to being called a “NERD” was “Thank You so much” This was all her lol.
She does tell us and I do ask and know when its getting on top of her. We have made the school aware and they have moved some people in class. Amy does and feels able to talk to her teacher , I would the first person to talk to the children’s parents if things progressed.

Last week a girl put glue on her face which was going too far for me. Her teacher must have given her a telling off and she did apologise. He talked to some boys who had been giving her grief and trying to interrupt a conversation and make her feel stupid telling her to shut up.
She knows we are proud of her and are here to protect her. These people are not worth knowing if they are like they are and have a lot to learn. She goes to out of school activities where she meets other people. We have encouraged her to find friends with similar interests.
I guess its hard for me to see her struggle and want to knock their heads together. She has such a sense of humor and has so much to offer as a friend.
I do think its so important to be close to your kids and that they feel they can tell you anything, I do encourage her to look to the future and realise this is a short time in her life which she will learn how to deal with people.
Love you Loads Amy!!! I Love who you are, don’t go changing for anyone Mum xxxx
And Thanks Yvette for your story x
I will check out the books with Amy!