Mary Driscoll Named Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield’s “youth of the Year”

                                                                                                           

DATELINE:  MARSHFIELD, MA…

                                                       

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admin on October 16th, 2009
Mentoring Children

All parents hope that their children will grow up healthy, happy, and productive. They aspire to have children who have the skills to contribute to their own well-being and to the well-being of their families and community. There is no magic bullet for developing these capacities in children. Literally thousands of programs have been developed to support families in their efforts to help children to become competent, confident, caring young peopl Read the rest of this entry »

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admin on August 21st, 2009
IBM to mentor Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks and IBM announced that they would continue to expand their relationship through joint technology solutions.

It is as if IBM has put itself to the task of  mentoring the younger and more inexperienced Juniper Networks.  IBM has the unique credential of being an IT company that can anchor its roots back in the 19th century.  The company has gone through a great depression (perhaps more than one) and  two world wars.   Read the rest of this entry »

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admin on August 13th, 2009
The Importance of Youth Leadership

Copyright (c) 2008 Justin Sachs

When you consider retiring from your business and handing it down to someone new and young, do you get nervous? This is a very common issue with business owners who consider passing their business down to a more youthful employee. Many youthful citizens have a tendency to be rebellious and very disobedient. This isn’t something all that new, but the numbers regarding this type of behavior seem to be in Read the rest of this entry »

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admin on May 10th, 2009
Youth Baseball Conditioning

There are many valuable youth baseball conditioning techniques to increase your players’ abilities by maximizing their strength, range of motion, and flexibility. Just as a car can only travel as fast as its engine will allow, in like manner, baseball players can only perform to the degree that their bodies will allow. If coaches, parents and mentors ensure that their players are involved in recommended youth baseball conditioning training, Read the rest of this entry »

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admin on April 27th, 2009
How to Coach Youth Football

I think those who are interested in coaching youth football are admirable. Not only do you get to teach kids football fundamentals; but you teach them well-documented life lessons and become an example and mentor. A youth football coach’s responsibility is to instill quality values such as confidence, discipline, sportsmanship, and teamwork. Applying these values to the game of football will help you to produce winners on and off the field. Here Read the rest of this entry »

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admin on April 6th, 2009
Youth Sports: are They Really for the Youth?

A 42 game schedule for 9-10 year olds! Tournaments every Saturday and Sunday where 9-10 year olds play 3 games on each day with 20 minute halves!

Did your jaw drop at these revelations? It should. These are 9 & 10 year olds playing in a tournament league, in games that are longer than 32 minute high school games and in a schedule that would test any college team.

I just moved to Oregon and in talking wi Read the rest of this entry »

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admin on November 20th, 2008
Promoting Child Mentorship Programs

Child mentorship programs are activities that prove to be beneficial not only for children but also for the adults who mentor them. The program aims for both to learn from one another in terms of life skills, values and character development. A mentorship program pairs adult mentors with young people in order to offer support, advice, friendship, reinforcement and lead through constructive examples in order to help young people achieve their full Read the rest of this entry »

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admin on November 8th, 2008
Before Scrapping the National Youth Service Corps

The call for the scapping of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC), established in 1973 by the Gowon led administration, has gained momentum since the murder of Corper Leke Akande during the recent Jos, Plateau State crisis. In fact, the call has assumed global dimension with a Facebook.com campaign tagged “JUSTICE FOR LEKE AKANDE/ SCRAP NYSC”. But the question that many of the scheme’s antagonists have not paused to consider is: whether the t Read the rest of this entry »

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Peer Mentoring - Helping The Teens Beat Pressures Of Adolescence

Teenagers are facing the most critical stage in their life – adolescence. At this stage, they experience the transition from childhood towards adulthood; in the process of transition, teens deal with lots of biological, emotional, social and psychological changes. Often, these changes make a life of a teenager miserable. There is a great desire to fit in, to be accepted for who they are, to find their true identity, and to realize their own stren Read the rest of this entry »

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