Enjoy this rerelease of our episode with Phyllis Fagell this week! We'll be back with new episodes soon.

Mediocre (or just plain mean!) friends, lunchroom exclusion, and the sting of first-time rejection from a sports team or school play are all hallmarks of everyone's least favorite years... middle school. However, according to Phyllis Fagell, author of Middle School Matters, this time can be about more than "just getting through it."