Did We Just Kinda Kill Off The Preteen Phase?

It seems like it doesn’t exist anymore.

Ted Bauer
3 min readJun 13, 2024

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I’ve never been a parent and probably will never be one, so you can take a lot of this with a grain of salt, I’m sure. I don’t even know exactly where we define the age brackets, but I think “teenager” maybe starts at 13–14, and “child” goes till 9–10. So somewhere in 10–13, we had this “preteen phase,” but now it seems…

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.