Every day, tell your boy "You are a good kid"

Happy Mentor Day.  Moms, dads, foster parents, and mentors, here's your tip for this week.

Every day, tell your boy, “You are a good kid.” It’s best to tell him while he is alone and in a position to lessen any embarrassment. In his room after the lights are turned off is an ideal place and time for telling your son he is a good kid. Or just as your boy is leaving the car or house.

One day we were driving Sammie, then in middle school,  taking home after a mentoring time. Usually he jumped right out of the car and ran into his house, but this time he just sat there. After about three minutes of silence we remembered and told him he was a good kid, afterwhich he quickly jumped right out of the car and ran into his house. We learned something that day.