The Role of Mentoring

One national mentoring organization defines the mentoring relationship in the following terms:

A mentor is an adult who, along with parents, provides young people with support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement and constructive example. Mentors are good listeners, people who care, people who want to help young people bring out strengths that are already there (www.mentoring.org).

Described in these terms, it is at first difficult to understand why anyone would not want to have a mentor and the kind of support that a mentor can provide. And yet many people choose not to have mentors. This is no doubt, for many, rooted in the belief that many Americans seem to have that if one does not "go it alone" then whatever it is that one accomplishes does not somehow count. Of course, this is not true, and the wise person is quite often the person who knows when to ask for help as opposed to when to try to go it alone.

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