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Middle School Is Terrible Everywhere
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Middle School Is Terrible Everywhere

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Jen Cook
Jun 30, 2025
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If no one else wants to say it, I will.

Summer sucks.

Summer is my nemesis. It has always been, but my fervent dislike has grown as my children have grown older. Too old to want to go to camps, and not quite old enough to let them be feral teenagers.

Or maybe they are, and my own anxieties prevent me from letting them figure out summer all on their own.

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