The Silent Ask - Tweens (Ages 10-12)
Scripts and strategies for what your tween can't tell you
Before you read the script, read this first.
If you have a tween right now, take a breath. This is one of the most misunderstood stages of parenting and you are not imagining how hard it is.
Listen to the companion podcast episode
Your 10 to 12 year old is carrying more than you might realize. They have just left the familiarity of elementary school where they sat in the same classroom all day with the same teacher and knew exactly where they stood. Now they are navigating a new school, moving from classroom to classroom, managing their own schedule, keeping on top of homework across multiple subjects and trying to figure out where they fit socially in a much bigger, much more complicated world.
At home there is pressure too. Quran studies. Academic expectations. Family values that sometimes feel like a wall between them and everyone else their age.
And underneath all of it, in a body that is changing in ways they cannot control, with hormones that make everything feel enormous, they are asking one question above everything else:
