This summer, we want to show tweens how easy it is to make your own podcast for kids! The Middle School Mind is launching a three episode series to guide you step by step to create your own tween podcast.

If you enjoy listening to The Middle School Mind podcast for kids and you’ve wondered how easy it is to make your own kid’s podcast by kids for kids, we are here to help.

Making your own podcast is easy, fun and does not cost a lot to start. We are here to show you step by step how we make The Middle School Mind podcast in hopes that you will start your very own podcast. And, summer is the perfect time to start!

To get started, you will need the help of a parent or responsible adult to help you create your podcast on the podcast app, Anchor and download graphics and create your own podcast title card, you will need to access free sites like Canva and Pexels.

To make this process even easier, we recommend you download the attached PDF guide that shows you handy screen shots to walk through the process every step of the way!

Here's what we cover in episode one:

Thank you for listening to the show. We really appreciate our listeners and we hope this summer school series will inspire you to Make Your Own Kid Podcast this summer break.

We want to help our listeners with making your own podcast and we will be giving away a total of (2) Logitech Blue Snowball microphones this summer to two of our lucky listeners. The Blue Snowball microphone is the same one we use to record The Middle School Mind and hope you will use it to make your own podcast!

If you want to be part of the drawing, here’s how to enter:

It’s that easy!

On this episode of The Middle School Mind, Son talks about his perfect summer day and summer vacation ideas. Son is extremely fortunate to spend a lot of time over the summer at his grandparent’s lake house. We talk about his perfect summer day and his favorite part of summer vacation is watching the 4th of July Fireworks show on the lake.

We also talk about an article from IDtech.com on Summer Vacation Ideas for Tweens. We talk about a few of these suggestions from the list and our ideas to check these off over summer vacation.

Son will be taking a break from the podcast as he enjoys his summer vacation for a few months. We will be releasing a summer school series called Make Your Own Kids Podcast in hopes kids can make their own tween podcasts over the summer. Don't worry, Son will be back for Season 2 starting in August!

Calling all future kid podcasters!

It’s that easy!

The Middle School Mind is now a proud member of Kids Listen. Kids Listen is a grassroots organization of advocates for high-quality audio content for children. Kids Listen is creating platforms for producers to share ideas, and publish data and information relevant to creators, consumers, and supporters of podcasts for kids.

You can reach The Middle School Mind on our About Us page, Facebook page or Twitter (@TMSM_Podcast). Thanks for listening!

Thank you for listening to the show. We really appreciate our listeners and we hope you have a wonderful summer.

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast for tweens, we finish up our Ask a Teacher session with Mom, Aunt and Cousin! We have a great time laughing at some of the silly answers on this episode.

Mom has been a middle school teacher for 26 years while Aunt has been teaching middle school for 27 years. Cousin is new to education and has been teaching for one year.

On this episode, we ask the teachers about:

Mom and Aunt play a version of The Newlywed Game to see how many matches they can get during our game.

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast for tweens, we share some exciting news and Son’s guest segment on The Ten News podcast for kids! Son and Ryan Willard, head writer, of The Ten News talk about summer blockbuster movies! Ryan was a guest on episode 1.15 Ryan Willard on our show earlier this season.

You can find Son’s episode on The Ten News here!

We also want to wish everyone a very safe and happy Memorial Day holiday in the United States and want to recognize all the men and women who have served our country.

We also want to thank the following people who helped make Son’s appearance on The Ten News happen:

As we are getting closer to summer vacation, we talk about our upcoming episodes and some exciting Summer School project for our listeners!

If you like listening to The Middle School Mind podcast and you’re a tween, middle schooler or kid who has a lot of ideas to get off your chest, we are going to teach you how we make our podcast in hopes that you can create and launch your own podcast this summer!

For 1-2 lucky listeners who leave us a positive review on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or the podcast platform of your choice, you can contact us using the form at the bottom of our About Us page. Please let us know which comment you submitted, your user name that you used to submit the comment/review and where we can find your comment/review to be entered into the drawing.

We will randomly pick 1-2 winners who participate and will send you your very own Logitech Blue Snowball microphone to help you get started in your podcasting journey!

So please, like, follow, subscribe and leave a positive review of The Middle School Mind and we will produce those Make Your Own Podcast episodes in June and July.

As always, thank you for listening.

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast for tweens, Son gets into the minds of  middle school teachers to get their perspective on teaching middle school students. This is a family affair as middle school educators, Mom, Aunt and Cousin, join us on the show!

Mom has been a middle school teacher for 26 years while Aunt has been teaching middle school for 27 years. Cousin is new to education and has been teaching for one year. We ask the teachers about:

We play a Word Association game!

See how our middle school teachers react to:

We loved making this episode because we got honest feedback from our family members who are also long-time teachers! Educators are dedicated to the students they teach and love to have fun and see them grow. Thank you to our guests and to all the teachers who spend their time teaching kids! We will have our educators back on another episode because we had more questions

Please leave us a positive review and like and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

We also want to hear from you, our listeners! What kind of topics do you want to hear more about?

You can reach The Middle School Mind on our About Us page, Facebook page or Twitter (@TMSM_Podcast). Thanks for listening!

On this very special episode of The Middle School Mind kids podcast Son interviews Ryan Willard, head writer, of The Ten News podcast. Ryan and Son talk about delivering news for kids age 8-12 on The Ten News podcast.

Thanks to all of you for making this a super special episode of The Middle School Mind!

Please leave us a positive review and like and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. You can reach The Middle School Mind on our About Us page, Facebook page or Twitter (@TMSM_Podcast). Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast, we get awkward. Son brings up three awkward situations for us to discuss and we bring up two bonus awkward situations to review.

What does it mean to be Awkward?

Son highlights three examples of awkward situations

Two bonus awkward situations presented by Father

Of course we have to talk about Jeff Bezos on our Awkward Situations episode

For more Awkward Situations, check out this article from Lifehacker highlighting 10 Awkward Situations and How to Deal With It.

Please leave us a positive review and like and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. You can reach The Middle School Mind on our About Us page, Facebook page or Twitter (@TMSM_Podcast). Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast for kids and tweens, Son talks about his interest in Dungeons & Dragons and his first-time experience playing D&D.

We talk about what Dungeons & Dragons is and how you can work with your party to build a new world and see how your character and your character’s choices play out throughout the game.

We talk about in-person versus web-based game play and we can’t just can’t stop talking about Jeff Bezos.

Thank you for all your support. Please like and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music or your favorite podcast provider.

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast, Son introduces us to ASMR. Neither of us know what ASMR is and we go to our friends at youtube to help us find out!

1. What is ASMR?

2. We find a youtube video from Gibi ASMR posted yesterday titled “ASMR that gets darker and darker so you can sleep :)” to help us understand what ASMR is all about.

3. After our initial view of Gibi ASMR’s video, we give our initial thoughts.

4. We have more questions than answers still.

5. We can’t quit Gibi ASMR and go back to the video.

6. Final thoughts on Gibi’s ASMR video.

7. We didn't feel the tingles with ASMR, did you?

A special thank you to Gibi ASMR! Her video was definitely eye-opening and helped us understand what ASMR is all about. While ASMR does not resonate with us, it is clear from all the videos, all the views and all the followers for Gibi and other youtubers that ASMR has a big following! Please check out Gibi ASMR’s channel on youtube and see for yourself if ASMR is your thing!

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast, we've had lots of fun making this show over the last few months. This episode is all about you and we are counting down the Top 10 Listener Cities based on the data we get from our podcast provider.

We wanted to understand who is listening to our show and find out a little more about where our listeners are from and here's the top 10 cities where our listeners come to us from:

10. Bulverde, Texas

9. Three Way Tie

8. London, Kentucky

7. Sainte Genevieve, Missouri

6. Brentwood, Tennessee

5. Brandon, Mississippi

4. Colorado Springs, Colorado

3. Los Altos, California

2. Wenatchee, Washington

1. North Ridgeville, Ohio

Finally, we play a trivia game to see what we know about our Top 10 Listener Cities.

Thank you for listening, please drop us a positive comment or review or visit us on our website at themiddleschoolmind.com, click on the About Us page and complete the Contact Us form to let us know what you like and what you want to hear us talk about in the future.

We would really appreciate if you can share our podcast episodes to your family and friends. And if Jeff Bezos is listening, we would love to have you come on the show and talk to us about how you founded amazon.com!