Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Non-Family Mentor

It may be that a healthy, wise, and confident person is more likely produced when a supportive, consistently available, and friendly non-family member is there be completely open and non-judgmental from childhood. This supporting adult could be a grandparent or an uncle or aunt, but it may be even more powerful if this adult is not related. The support, praise, and guidance will not be attached to family baggage, and allow the relationship to be seen by the child as in certain ways more "clean" and more legitimate because from an outsider, friendship is seen as earned rather than obligatory, boosting the child’s confidence in their self.

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