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Mentor for your son? Can it help?

What do Warren Buffett, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jordan, and Albert Einstein have in common? A mentor.

Most happy and successful people have been encouraged and supported by a mentor in their life journey. The start for obtaining a life of happiness and success can simply start with finding a mentor. A mentor is a catalyst for someone’s desired outcome and this is especially true for teenage boys.

Parents are significant influences in their teenage sons life; it is also clear though, other adults can, and do, affect important outcomes such as education, social and emotional well-being, and health and safety. These are some of the reasons why finding a mentor is becoming a favorable strategy among parents for youth development. Parents usually have a lot of experience making decisions and are eager to offer advice to their children. Some parents say, “I have all the right answers to what he needs. Why doesn’t he want my advice?” What your teenage son might need is someone to ask him all the right questions, helping him decide what will work and what won’t. Parents also can’t be everything to their children either; If you are struggling under the weight of a

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