Mentoring Our Boys –

Promote Mentoring

During this month of January, National Mentor Month, we can start the year with a push to promote mentoring. We can talk it up among friends, family and coworkers. We can write about it on internet blogs like this one. We can call in to radio talk shows and talk it up on the air waves. We can encourage the single moms we know to find mentoring programs for their sons.

Awareness

While many would acknowledge the need for mentorship of our boys, I think most are not aware of the significance of the need. It doesn’t take a national study and statistical data to recognize that most of society’s problems are directly or indirectly related to the shortcomings of today’s men. Jails are filled with mostly men. Even juvenile social problems tend to be boys. Extramarital affairs are notoriously committed by men (although of recent I think women are tending toward this immoral act). Men are seen today as overcommitted at work and lazy at home. And today’s boys are learning from these models just as today’s men learned from the men of yesteryear. Where does this pattern end?

Squires2Knights Ministries

The vision of Squires2Knights Ministries is to promote a Christ-centered manhood vision for the next generation of men. We are equipping men for mentorship of their sons, fatherless boys and all young men. Join us during this National Mentor Month as we change the pattern so prevalent in our nation today. Let’s Mentor Our Boys.

Squires to Knights - Mentoring Our Teenage Boys

Squires to Knights -Mentoring Our Teenage Boys informs, inspires and educates men who want to make a difference for their sons and any young men under their influence. It’s a quick, easy read for men on the go. But it maps out a strategy for men to get involved and pass on a vision of authentic manhood to the next generation.

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by Jeff Purkiss
Filed under: Cultural Issues, Fathering/Mentoring