This blog will cover much of what I see, present and experience through my interactions with our young people and artless surrounding education.
For the past two years, I have been mentoring young males at several public high schools. The young males that I mentor bring many challenges to our sessions. Challenges range from an inability to trust, manage self discipline and basic life skills. Since our first meeting, we conversed about making decisions and the consequences that come with them. Many of these young men already had it figured out and did not take well to the approach of being preached at. I found two things that I believed would get their attention. I brought in the book 'The 50th Law' by 50 cent and a video on choices by Tony Dungy (attached Youtube).
A normally anxious bunch of teenagers took to the topic of overcoming fear and the reality of making bad choices.
Wow, The students responded in an even more powerful way than I expected. For the next fifteen minutes we were captivated and questioning how we all may make better choices in our lives.
We need our young men to become old men and be known and valued citizens, fathers, educators and visionaries for a better world.
Charles
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