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display on your printed page) Seventh graders often think the
world is against them: "She looked at me the wrong way; I'm
going to cry." They behave better at school -- they can be
cooperative in class, then go home and become very territorial.
They are couch potatoes and not very adventurous. They don't
know what to do with themselves but hate to go anywhere with the
family, especially on vacation. Friendships are all-important.
Up until now, kids have been merely thinking of defying
authority; now they are prepared to do it. Peer issues and a
rapidly developing interest in the opposite sex occupy the minds
of most seventh graders, who are struggling desperately to fit
in. Girls still want to be in with the other girls, and boys
with boys, but now the way to win acceptance may be to have a
connection with a member of the opposite sex. Kids will try one
mode of dress to make them look hip, only to get snickers and
stares from classmates. The result is