by Robin Cox | Sep 8, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
I switched the lolly from one hand to the other so fast my young granddaughter failed to see this. “Choose a hand!” I say with a mischievous smile. She points confidently at the hand that held the lolly. I open it. Empty. I open the other hand to reveal the lolly....
by Robin Cox | Sep 4, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
When you were a teenager, did you ever come across an adult who crushed your dreams? How did you react? What life lessons did you learn from that experience? Fortunately, all the people who nurtured me as a young person encouraged me to chase my dreams; through the...
by Robin Cox | Sep 2, 2024 | Building strengths, Coaches, coaching leaders, Education, Family, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Social workers, teachers, youth mentoring
What is it that tugs at your heart strings and wants you to interact with others? How do you express selfless love and care to those with whom you interact? These are questions I have often asked myself as I collated my research on the adolescent brain, and interacted...
by Robin Cox | Aug 29, 2024 | Coaches, coaching leaders, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
Stumbling into my hero was a life-changing moment. He was humble, selfless, inspirational, and the best in the world. I, too, was stumbling and looking for direction and motivation. When you were young, who was your hero? Do you still have heroes? Who are your guiding...
by Robin Cox | Aug 25, 2024 | Building strengths, coaching leaders, Mentors, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, Uncategorized, youth mentoring
How easy do you find it to make friends or encourage others? Why do you value the friends you currently have? How prepared are you to encourage others? Are you a solutions focused person? Or, do you share more feelings of doom and gloom than expressions of joy and...
by Robin Cox | Aug 24, 2024 | Christian teachers, coaching leaders, Mentors, Mentorship, Relationships, teachers
Disillusioned with God? Never believed in God? Walked away from God? Couldn’t care less about God? Think everything about God is fairy tales? Stubborn as a mule about your beliefs? Pause and reflect on my experience today. My faith is rock solid. Why wouldn’t it be? I...
