There is a stage in every individual where he or she stops playing with toys because they -the toys- are considered too way immature objects for "grown up" middle schoolers, yet, they are still too young to be accepted into the adolescent group, this stage is considered as preteens. However, there have been a growing idea among middle schoolers in which they automatically think and act as if they are already grown adolescents, and is shown that today's middle schoolers are in a fast paced cycle.
Sadly, today's middle schoolers are cutting the children-to-youth transition stage in a desperate effort to be seeing and heard as young adults. In fact, after they turn to the two digit number age, they automatically start living as if they were miniature adults. Indeed, Hymowitz uses the school environment, criminal offenses, sexual activity, and other factors on her writing "Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen" to express how middle-schoolers are acting as if they were living in a much older life stage.…show more content… 183), nevertheless it is an issue that is happening in the actuality. In addition, the rates of criminal offenses among middle-schooles have been increasing over the last decades, Hymowitz presents examples of murders that occurred during the past 20 years to show how the situation have been increasing its magnitude (Hymowitz, pg.
