- Give your children opportunities to spend time with other
adults.
- Encourage your children to join adult-sponsored gropus,
troops, or teams.
- Arrange for your children to meet with adult friends
who have similar interests or hobbies.
- Take family vacations with other familes
- Get involved in your neighborhood and community.
- Encourage your children
to meet with guidance counselors at school.
- Write thank you notes to
adults who positively interact with your children.
- Get to know your children's
friends.
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- Have
an open-door policy for students who want to talk.
Be available.
- Take time to ask students
at least one question about themselves at every student
conference.
- Don't consider it wasted
time when teachers spend time talking with students.
- Occasionally eat lunch
in the cafeteria with the students.
- Be the faculty sponsor
for a student club or event.
- Let parents know that there
are people on staff who are willing and available to
talk with your kids.
- Work with people in your
community to arrange mentoring, and internship
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- Build at least one sustained caring relationship with
a child or adolescent.
- Teach coaches and other adult leaders how to communicate
well with teens.
- Create opportunities for youth and adults to work and
play together.
- Offer mentoring programs that match kids with caring
adults. Volunteer to be a mentor.
- Sponsor career days so young people can spend time
with adults in professions that interest them.
- Pair kids with adult volunteers for community service
projects.
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- Train
adult volunteers to talk with kids who have concerns.
- Sponsor a congregational
mentoring program
- Plan intergenerational
programs so kids and adults can get to know each other.
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