Goodreads asked Judith Warner:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Judith Warner The idea for And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School (pub date May 2020; available for pre-sale now!) came to me as a passing thought when my daughter was navigating the troubled waters of seventh grade. I was suffering, and while I knew rationally that the parents around me were suffering too as they witnessed their own kids' age-appropriate distress, going through the experience with those moms and dads felt -- and often looked -- like middle school all over again. I thought: "Who are the seventh graders walking around inside us?" And it all followed from there.

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