Robin's Mentoring Matters Blog
Encourage and inspire youth to reach their potential
Your 17 point survival kit for a post-pandemic healthy life
Are you a solutions focused person? Or, do you share more feelings of doom and gloom than expressions of joy and happiness - what is possible with a positive attitude? Or, do you feel full of self-pity, especially during this pandemic season during which there are so...
How to become a winner – a mentoring message for teenagers
How often in your life have you come close to achieving a goal and either slipped up at the last moment or felt it was too hard to achieve and given up? I know there have been times in my life when I have failed to achieve my potential through moments of self-doubt or...
How you can inspire youth in a post-pandemic global community
How to be a wise guide on the side The Covid pandemic continues to rage across our global community and there are few signs that it will end any time soon, despite the major push for people to be vaccinated. There are still too many unknowns about this pandemic....
Surprisingly Simple Parenting Tips Anyone can use
Surprisingly Simple Parenting Tips Anyone Can Use The Covid pandemic has changed the world. We will never return to the pre-Covid days. Already I am hearing how the pandemic has caused increased anxiety among youth and I have little doubt it has affected families in a...
10 Principles of Good Parenting
Does your child have behavior problems? Your relationship with your child likely needs some attention. In his book, The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting, Laurence Steinberg, PhD, provides guidelines based on the top social science research - some seventy-five...
Quick tips for the champion resilience coach
Identify and name a young person's strengths What kind of children do you want to raise? What kind of society do you want to live in? Two great questions I have been thinking about as I finish off a draft of possibly my final book: CHOICES: Encouraging Youth to...
How to speak a message of HOPE into the lives of our youth
How the spirit of mentoring can inspire youth How are you responding to the concerns of youth whose lives have been turned upside down by the pandemic? A couple of weeks ago I read an article in our local newspaper titled: Covid generation's dark hole in the soul. The...
10 Tips for Effective Mentoring from the global experts
Encourage others to reach their potential and achieve greatness. How important are your face-to-face relationships to you? This week I had the privilege of sharing mentoring thoughts with Coast Mentoring, a new mentoring program serving the area in which I live. I...
How the selfless face of mentoring changes lives – true stories
Have you ever wondered how diverse the spirit of mentoring is? Have you thought about how powerful mentoring is during a pandemic season? These are questions I have been thinking about a lot during the past fortnight as a result of two experiences: watching a movie...
Exclusive positive thoughts package to share with your mentees
Tips and strategies to live a healthy and well-balanced life "What are your top five life lessons you can share with me?" Imagine your teenage mentee asking you that question. How would you respond? Like many others, from time to time some pearls of wisdom cross my...