Quotes & Sayings About Mentoring Youth

As children become increasingly less connected to adults, they rely more and more on each other; the whole natural order of things change. In the natural order of all mammalian cultures, animals or humans, the young stay under the wings of adults until they themselves reach adulthood. Immature creatures were never meant to bring one another to maturity. They were never meant to look to one another for primary nurturing, modelling, cue giving or mentoring. They are not equipped to give one another a sense of direction or values. As a result of today's shift to this peer orientation, we are seeing the increasing immaturity, alienation, violence and precocious sexualization of North American Youth. The disruption of family life, rapid economic and social changes to human culture and relationships, and the erosion of stable communities are at the core of this shift. — Gabor Mate

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever. — Chris Jirika

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. — Hilda Solis

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem. — Antonio J. Mendez

I'm a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth. — Sufe Bradshaw

Mentoring is an archetypal activity that has timeless elements which can connect us to the universal ground where nature renews itself and culture becomes reimagined. Youth and elder meet where the pressure of the future meets the presence of the past. Old and young are opposites that secretly identify with each other; for neither fits well into the mainstream of life. — Michael Meade

The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow. — Mark W. Boyer

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more. — William Shakespeare

My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh