Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

How do I know if I'm making progress as I mentor my children? Today, Inge Cannon joins Mike Smith on Home School Heartbeat to give parents some advice.

Mike Smith:
Inge, how can parents keep track of progress during mentoring? Is that important, even?

Inge Cannon:
Well, I think it is, because of two things: Once you've identified that big picture and you've identified the steps that will take you to that big picture, you need some checklists along the way. The checklists are the things that will help you to pat yourself on the back when doing it well, it will help you to know where your successes lie, and it will help you to know when you're kind of losing ground and help you to shore up and build that ground again.

Ron and I have put together a 12-hour seminar called "Mentoring Your Teen: Charting the Course to Successful Adulthood." And lest that 12 hours be overwhelming, it is divided into 9 segments, and we even package it so that parents can get it in segments. It is accompanied by a 430-page syllabus that you can also buy in segments so that you can kind of walk yourself through one chapter at a time. You can learn what is mentoring, you can learn how to put the mentoring process together academically, spiritually, for the workforce, then the matter of college decisions and apprenticeship, and all the different models for doing these things. And we list an extensive bibliography in there that will be a great help to parents.

Mike:
Thank you, Inge. This has been a very valuable week for homeschoolers. And until next time, I'm Mike Smith.