Baby Boomer Issues Reviews

Mentoring

Mentoring

Baby boomers owe a lot to mentors of their own youth that instilled the values that brought them note the world. You might not think back on the deserted days of the 50s and 60s as a time when mentored youth were expressing the values of their elders. But there is really no conduct that such a powerful explosion of culture change could happen without the influence of teachers and mentors on the youth of the time.

The mentors of the youth culture developed their values in the 40s and 50s. These were values that were outraged by the ravages of war and perceived injustice in society. The outcome of the civil rights movement, the women’s rights advances and other society energizing movements show that the teaching of a few principled humans can literally change the world.

For baby boomers move useful late middle age, this is an outstanding time to consider mentoring a youth of the next generation to pass long some of the values that have held true for baby boomers over the decades. This is the existent treasure of one generation passing their wisdom on to the next when they are able to share with the young what values really do mean something and which ones will pass with time.

A song from the youth days of the baby boomer generation that so perfectly demonstrates the importance of the old mentoring the young is “Father and Son” by the folk performer Cat Stevens. In this song, a father counsels his son who is consumed with the passion of his values and the explosive and eager desire to make them a reality. Baby boomers can relate to that poetic song because they are a begetting who have worked to retain their values but to put those values to the test to find the truths that truly are eternal and reject what is one shot of importance for a time.

For baby boomers, who are now the smart elderly citizens of society, mentoring youth is a wonderful time to not just teach values to youth in an instructional setting but to teach them in the most important way, by being part of their lives. Wonderful organizations such as the Big Brother program and many church groups love to use the good hearts of baby boomers who want to reach out to the next generation just as their own elders guided them to wise values that have lasted a lifetime.

But it isn’t just the youth that benefit from a strong mentor that is working within the context of a well organized and administered program to help young people. There is something fulfilling for the aging baby boomer to share from the heart reserve a troubled youth who needs a friend and to give them the greatest gift possible, the gift of time and friendship. For many baby boomers who may have gone astray a child or sagacious tragedy in this area of life, becoming a friend to a youth and seeing that youth blossom into a young man or woman who wants to get out know onions and change the world validates who they were as youth as great and gives them that feeling of connection to the young.

That feeling of making life better for one who is tried starting out in life can give a baby boomer that is emphatic toward retirement a sense of closure and satisfaction that the hard won knowledge and wisdom they obtained has been good for a young person. And that kind of satisfaction can lead to a happier and more peaceful retirement experience and prepare any who would deed themselves to mentoring what he or she will need to prepare for that final adventure of passing on from this world to the next one.