Mentoring Workshop

During the workshop,  we divided the class into two groups, Gamers and Avengers.

What we did?

Financial Literacy, what it means and how it relates to them at their age. We talked about saving their pocket money and cash gifts, with a plan to have it as an investment fund sometime in the future. We demonstrated budgeting and how we can do away with some of the excessive soda drinks during the week, and add the money to our savings. The children participated and committed to adjusting their spending habits to help them save more.

Mood Swings and strategies to manage their emotions better. We encouraged them to see their families, especially parents as major partners to help them manage their mood swings, rather than taking it out on parents. We all agreed that our parents most times get the ugly end of the stick when we go through our mood swings and promised to do better by making sure we see our parents as allies and not the cause of our mood swings.

Communication and Relationship with Parents , we talked about Passive, Aggressive, Passive-Aggressive, and Assertive communication. We zoomed in on tone of voice and body language, first processing our choice of words and then making respectful eye contact, with the primary objective of showing our parents that we do care, love, and respect them.

Goal Setting focused on getting the children to consider what they want to become in future and how they can take daily steps to work towards it. A key example we used was improving our grades at school.

Self-Management and Leadership tied everything together where each attendee was made to see that until they take responsibility, they will keep finding themselves at odds with themselves and their parents.

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics which was facilitated by our partners the Uniccon group was for those who were interested in this field, which was about half of the class.The session focused on the principles of AI and robotics. Unfortunately, they did not come with their demo robots, but promised to do so next time.

What to Expect Going Forward
Expect our young ones to be a bit more appreciative, making more use of the five magic words - Please, Excuse Me, Sorry, Thank You, and Pardon Me.

Expect them to ask if you would take them for a walk, if you are a parent that doesn't already do that.

Expect them to be a bit more patient with us as parents when we make rules they do not like.

Expect them to improve a bit in tidying their rooms.

We encourage our parents to reciprocate and encourage them by also playing their role as parents, with a little bit of patience. If there is any need to have us talk to your teens at any time, please feel free to let us know.

Mentor a teenager daily!

Uncle Kris.