S4 EP1: True Colors: Potentiality & 8 Hidden Superpowers for a Brand-New School Year 🌈💎
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In this episode, Suzanne explores the concept of potentiality in middle schoolers, discussing how perceived problems may actually be unfinished strengths and uncovering eight hidden superpowers.
TRUE COLORS: 8 Hidden Superpowers for a Brand-New School Year 🌈💎 Season 4 is here! 🎉 And we’re starting with a radical idea: what if some of the things we’re quickest to label as “problems” in middle schoolers are actually unfinished strengths? In this episode, Suzanne explores potentiality—the difference between what something is right now and what it still has the capacity to become. Because an argumentative kid might be developing the persistence of an advocate. A hyper-observant kid may be building extraordinary social intelligence. An overexplainer might someday become a powerful communicator. And the kid who feels everything may not need less empathy—they may need help learning how to use that empathy without carrying everybody else’s emotions. Through middle school sociology, developmental science, classroom stories, a nearly indestructible Asheville geode, Holes , a few cognitive distortions, and Lieutenant Steve’s absolutely unforgivable excavation of a practically brand-new queen-sized memory foam mattress 🐶😂, we uncover eight hidden superpowers: 🧠 Discernment and knowing which battles matter 👀 Reading the social world 👂 Deep listening 🗣️ Communication…
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