A Peek Inside The Mind Of A Bully I’ve spent 25 years working with teens and young adults, helping them navigate the perils of the adolescent stage of life to grow into confident, centered adults. Along the way I’ve heard countless stories of bullying, mostly the girl to girl verbal kind, followed by the “pick…
Boyhood In Peril – The Battle To Raise Healthy, Thriving Boys Into Men in A Chaotic World Much has been written in the past decade about the troubled inner and outer lives of boys. The positions the ‘experts’ take vary between disturbing books on their damaged and wounded inner and emotional lives written by psychologists…
Being a teenager is enough to make you puke The following is a true story, with name changes to protect the guilty, and a few expletives toned down from R to PG 13, sort of. Jeremy is a 17 year old high school senior. He is, in many ways, typical of the kids I mentor.…
The following is a newsletter I recently wrote for the HeroPath For Teens™ Program that I run in the UK. Though it is written to teens, the message is relevant for all. . Are your parents nagging you too much? We can help. Occasionally, but not infrequently, we receive calls from concerned parents who share a…
This page is filled with links to articles I’ve published in Camping Magazine. Including my Award Winning series on 13 year olds in camps, and camps that dared to be different. As you read through these, you’ll notice they go the range from some “how-to” for training counselors, to exploring ideas that speak to Camp…
Bringing Out The Best In 8th Grade Girls © Likone Corp 2005 There is arguably no more challenging, unsettling life stage than that of the budding adolescent girl growing up in our culture in modern times. They are inundated with messages of how their self-worth and place in the pecking order is based on their…
Do you remember “Little Johnny”? He starred in the stories about the boy who always got in trouble. Well let me tell you what happened to him… Not surprisingly Little Johnny had a tough go of it through elementary school. He was labeled early on as a problem child. Although test results never substantiated any…
Exploring Emotional Maturity ** Through the lens of Mentor Counseling® ** Research shows that the average American operates intellectually at the level of a sixth grade education. Marketing and advertising is geared towards this level: Coke is it. Just do it. Simple enough for a sixth grader… Simple enough for your average American. What is not…
The statistics on boys in education and mental illness diagnosis are staggering – achievement in school has steadily declined over the past decade while the diagnosis with disorders from ADD to Depression have risen dramatically. How much of this is our problem oriented diagnose and medicate society, versus a real refection of what is going…
How 21st Century Advances Create 21st Century Troubles For Youth – What you should know and what you can do about it – “Thinking that IMing, Email and Text messaging is having a real conversation is the same as thinking that “XO” at the end of a letter is a real hug and kiss.” -Kathryn Blythe…